Inquiries old and new

Not impressed to read in Friday's Guardian that elements of our legal system are investigating around 200 former members of security forces - presumably mainly if not entirely army - in connection with incidents in Northern Ireland dating back to nearly 50 years ago. There was more than a hint that one lot are keen to get on with this as part of keeping Nationalists in Northern Ireland onside while another lot are keen to put a stop to it with a sensible and overdue statute of limitations. Overdue possibly being part of the collateral damage caused by the Brexit business.

While my most recent attempt to find out how the investigation into the Huddersfield shooting of just two years ago is getting on has met with a polite blank. That is to say that my email exchange with the office of the relevant police commissioner was efficient but uninformative. Should I be in touch with Gareth Pierce of reference 2, more usually associated with what I might call the other side?

Not impressed that we should manage to find huge investigative resources to stir up ancient history, but nowhere near enough to investigate part of our recent history - where there might actually be some useful lessons to be learned. About, for example, the hoops that policemen have to jump through before they are allowed to shoot people with premeditation but without warning.

To think that we have been governed by the party which used to be called the party of law and order for getting on for ten years now.

Reference 1: https://psmv4.blogspot.com/2019/03/huddersfield.html.

Reference 2: https://psmv4.blogspot.com/2019/01/lawyers.html.