Diary of a Mountain Biker in Twickenham

Diary of a Mountain Biker in Twickenham.

Az-Elarab Jedid – Community Police Officer 7106T


January 29th 200


Diary of a Mountain Biker in Twickenha


Extract from the Met Office Archive
(http://www.metoffice.com/climate/uk/2004/january.html)


“After a rather cold cloudy day on the 26th an arctic airstream brough
snowfall to northern areas, affecting eastern coastal counties and th
south-east later on the 27th. During the 28th another band of sno
gathered strength over the Midlands as it migrated southwards, reachin
the Home Counties during the rush hour. The passage of this fron
produced squalls, a sudden drop in temperature and a period of heav
snow which, in many places, settled quickly (even in central Londo
where 2 to 4 cm fell). There were also many reports of thunder an
lightning. North Wales, north-east England, the Lincolnshire Wolds an
parts of East Anglia had significant falls, with depths up to 15 cm i
places. Transport links were seriously disrupted in many regions.


In Twickenham, there was snow and ice on the roads. The snow had been
surprise and there had not been any gritting on the roads


In order to avoid the ice on the roads, a cyclist was cycling ver
slowly and very carefully on the deserted pavement… deserted except fo
community police officer Az-elarab Jedid 7106TW. -elarab Jedid stoppe
the cyclist with the words “stop, I must give you a ticket”. Th
cyclist responded “you’re not giving me a ticket. –Az-elarab Jedi
called for backup and within 2 minutes the cyclist was surrounded by
police constable and un-marked car with a non-uniformed police heav
ready to arrest the cyclist. The cyclist was threatened with arrest i
he did not give his name and address and accept the fixed penalt
ticket. Just try getting that kind of quick police response if a membe
of the public is being murdered, mugged, or robbed

When the cyclist pointed out that there was snow and ice on the road
because they had not been gritted and that this was grounds for no
issuing a ticket (which is true), Mr Jedid 7106TW denied that he coul
see any snow or ice. When the cyclist pointed out a patch of ice, M
Jedid replied that "it looks like a white carrier bag...". It was not
bag, it was ice. Do you really want community police officers with thi
attitude

Mr Jedid was un-employed before he became a community support officer
One of the main requirements to become a community support polic
officer is an interest or dediction to support the local community. T
this end, community support officers can frequently be seen issuin
parking tickets and cycling fines during office hours... after 18:30hr
there is no sign of a police officer of any kind. There are 25 communit
support officers in Twickenham alone during office hours. At 22:30hr
when a murder took place on Twickenham Green, there were no polic
officers at all on scheduled duty outside of the warm police station
The residents have been asking for an (evening) police presence fo
that last two and one half years since these attacks started. Th
police have even jailed a mentally handicapped man for the previou
attack. This man has not been released despite the police themselve
making the obvious connection between the recent murder and previou
attacks in the area

1. Still to this day, there are no signs indicating that it is illega
to cycle on the pavement anywhere in the borough

2. There still remains a painted cycle path (apparently due to b
removed claimed Az-elarab Jedid 7106TW) on the pavement some 10 yard
from where the cyclist was given a fixed penalty ticke

3. The road conditions were particularly dangerous featuring ice an
the pavement was void of pedestrians

4. The cyclist was riding very carefully showing consideration & givin
priority to pedestrian

5. There were no pedestrians on the pavement other than Mr Jedid 7106T

6. The defendant had no less than one minute earlier passed polic
officer PC401TW who did not remark at all about his riding on th
pavement


When this law was proposed, Charles Clark stated that this law was no
designed to punish "....

responsible cyclists who sometimes feel obliged to use the pavement out
of

fear of dangerous traffic on the roads, and who show consideration to
other

pavement users when doing so" (Charles Clarke, the Home Office, August
1999).”

Three cyclists were arrested and bundled into a police van in Kings
Road, Twickenham for refusing to release their names and addresses when
a community support officer wanted to give them penalty tickets for
cycling on the pavement. Kings road is too narrow to support a cycling
lane - a previous cycle lane exists and is diverted by signs onto the
pavement at Kings Road. Once again these road markings have not been
removed.


The current Greater London Unitary Development Plan states that cycle
lanes & public transport will be improved together with the removal of
parking spaces in towns to encourage alternative ‘green’ forms of
transport. Yet in its implementation Greater London wide, high streets
have been narrowed and pavements widened with the removal of cycling
lanes. In Twickenham the temporary bus lane has now become permanent
parking spaces. The two/three lane high street has been reduced to
two/one lanes (1 car lane and 1 bus lane). The bus lane repeatedly
narrows to a shared single lane at pedestrian crossings and bus stops.
Cyclists can no longer pass safely or at all at these frequent width
restrictions. The pedestrian pavement was already wide and no further
benefit has been gained with respect to the pavement by any of these
changes.



At the same time, there is now an enforced fixed penalty fine for
cyclists caught on the pavement. This is no coincidence. Nor is it any
coincidence that the police and related public servants themselves will
not cycle as they consider it to be too dangerous.



The local community officer did not explain that it is now illegal to
ride on the pavement, nor did he attempt to use (any) discretion (the
roads were icy that day and just one week earlier a cyclist was knocked
down outside Marks & Spencer when a heavy goods vehicle’s rear doors
were opened into the road in the path of an oncoming cyclist. Any good
police officer or community officer should have known this.



When the cyclist was surrounded by a police force, two proprietors from
the shops in Heath Road who clearly saw everything voluntarily came out
of their (different) shops to protest on the cyclists behalf to Mr
Jedid & the police officer against the penalty ticket suggesting that a
warning should suffice. Several other passing members of the public
protested against the police action. At least six other people stopped,
of their own will, in support of me and criticized the Mr Jedid 7106TW
who did not reply at all.



Once the police officer and unmarked car had left, Mr Jedid 7106TW kept
the cyclist waiting for over thirty-five minutes whilst he wrote out his
penalty ticket during which time he repeatedly laughed and s******ed at
the cyclist.



Mr Jedid 7106TW remarked that I was “…not white” when he reached the
part of the process that requires a racial ancestry to be identified.
Mr Jedid 7106TW thus willingly propagated the racist seed spawned by
David Blunkett.



Everytime the cyclist then saw Mr Jedid 7106TW in Twickenham, Mr Jedid
7106TW would run and hide or put his back up against a wall. Do you
really want frightened cowards in the police force? What are the
implications for such people becoming tyrants?



On February 24th, the cyclist's bicycle was seen being taken whilst
chained to railings outside an office in Richmond by a community police
officer. When the cyclist tried to claim the bicycle back from the
police they had no record of it. The £3,500 bicycle had an internal
transponder hidden inside the frame.



The stolen bicycle first turned up for sale in Loot in the St Helens,
Liverpool. When the cyclist tried to arrange with the police to meet at
the location of the bicycle, help was refused. The very next day the
sale advert was cancelled. Eventually an email address was obtained for
the current keeper of the stolen bicycle. The mail server operator could
not disclose information but agreed to release it to the police. The
police relunctantly accepted full details of the email address of the
bicycle owner but took no action whatsover.



Following complaints, Mr Jedid 7106TW has been moved out of the
Twickenham area. He now participates in a team in Richmond which
arrests and fines young people who congregate in town since activities
for young people in the borough have been sold off the government
profit:



The ice rink by Cambridge Park was sold off for private development
after the public were conned into agreeing to demolish with the promise
of a new ice rink.

Over twenty separate cases of the sale of Metropolitan Open Land (MOL
status ) to “enabling private development” and to schools who in turn
have sold off their non-MOL status grounds for development.





Recovered stolen bicycles are never returned to their owners. Frame
numbers are not used in matching only loose descriptions are used by
policy such that no stolen property is ever returned, it eoither
becomes "re-owned" or sold at auction for profit.



The same goes for other items of lost property including vehicles.
Nothing is returned to owners voluntarily by the police.




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