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Sussex Police, the King and High Sheriff

A High Sheriff is the King’s representative for law and order and the administration of justice in a county. Philippa Mary Gogarty of Bosham was the High Sheriff for West Sussex 2024–2025.

I have been disappointed in the response of the police to a number of community meetings I have held in West Sussex….Going forward if the police do not want to be involved in these meetings or cannot attend I would prefer to know in advance please.

Philippa Gogarty – Former High Sheriff for West Sussex

Read the following email, sent to the Ministry of Injustice, dated the 31st October 2024 and decide for yourself how rude and disrespectful Sussex Police and the Sussex Police Senior Leadership team were to the former High Sheriff of West Sussex and ultimately His Majesty King Charles III.

The email has no Government Security Classification. The Surrey Police and Sussex Police Information Security Policy (722/2023) provides an overarching protective security for Surrey Police and Sussex Police information assets and overall strategy for information security throughout both Forces. It forms the framework and outlines the security measures adopted in order to safeguard the integrity and confidentiality of Force information and information systems.

Thank you for the clarity and for outlining the circumstances which I am frankly mortified about and offer my sincere apologies. I am also very disappointed in those who have let you down and I have asked for that/them to be addressed.

Chief Constable Jo Shiner – Sussex Police

I wonder how the Sussex Police Officers disgraceful behaviour was addressed by the Sussex Police Chief Constable Jo Shiner ?

Check out the Sussex Police Senior Leadership and others implicated in this email !

Chief Constable Jo Shiner
Assistant Chief Constable Dave Mclaren
Temporary Assistant Chief Constable Rosie Royce (not listed on Sussex Police Senior Leadership)

Temp Chief Superintendent Nick Dias (East Sussex Divisional Commander
Superintendent Imran Ashgar (Crawley and Mid Sussex)
Chief Inspector Will Keating Jones (District Commander of Chichester and Arun in West Sussex)
Chief Inspector James Davidson (District Commander of Adur, Worthing and Horsham)

Inspector Rob Hart

DC Loader
Molly O’Mailey
Daniel West
Stu Hale

The latest His Majesty’s Inspectorate of Constabulary and Fire & Rescue Services (HMICFRS) Sussex Police PEEL Assessment – PEEL 2021/22 dated 13th April 2023 stated that Sussex Police Investigating Crime Requires Improvement and Recording data about crime was Inadequate.

Sussex Police refused to record an allegation of stalking as a crime….hardly policing without fear of favour. Check out the article National Stalking Awareness Week – Sussex Police.

Check out our articles on Sussex Police, Policing by Consent, Police Impartiality, Police Public Confidence and Engagement, Police Professional Standards Department, IOPC, Crime Reporting, What is a Police and Crime Commissioner ?, Policing, Police News, Two Tiered Policing, Thought Police, Police Digital Service, Knowledge Hub – Police Digital Service, Wasting Police Time, Police Community Support Officers (PCSO), Met Police, Chief Constable Jo Shiner, R v Sussex Justices and the highly questionable Sussex Family Justice Board.

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