⟡ SWANK Archive: Procedural Misconduct Index ⟡
“This Wasn’t Policing. This Was Procedure as Punishment.”
Filed: 23 May 2025
Reference: SWANK/IOPC/2025-MET/PROCEDURAL-ABUSE
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I. When the Procedure Is the Threat, the Badge Is Secondary.
This formal complaint, addressed to the Independent Office for Police Conduct (IOPC), concerns the Metropolitan Police’s calculated abuse of safeguarding procedure — not to protect, but to destabilise.
The complainant?
A disabled mother with a written-only adjustment and a legal archive.
The context?
A history of documented institutional harm and lawful complaints already filed.
And yet — they escalated.
This wasn’t a mistake.
It was a tactic in plainclothes format.
II. What the Complaint Documents
Use of safeguarding language to bypass legal thresholds
In-person police attendance in violation of a documented written-only communication adjustment
Clear evidence of:
Procedural overreach
Retaliatory escalation
Administrative harassment disguised as liaison
Violations of:
Article 6 (Fair Process)
Article 8 (Family and Private Life)
Article 14 (Discrimination)
Equality Act 2010 (Disability Discrimination & Victimisation)
This was not public protection.
It was institutional messaging, delivered through procedural misuse.
III. Why SWANK Logged It
Because there is a point where safeguarding is no longer a tool of care.
It becomes a weapon of discipline — wielded against those who file, refuse, or remember too much.
We filed this because:
Written-only adjustments are not optional.
Disability rights are not “courtesies.”
Police action without lawful trigger is not care — it is coercion by process.
Let the record show:
There was no emergency.
There was no proportionality.
There was only escalation — and now, there is complaint.
IV. SWANK’s Position
We do not accept safeguarding used as social punishment.
We do not permit law enforcement to operate as an instrument of complaint deterrence.
We do not redact misconduct merely because it arrives with a badge.
Let the record show:
Procedure was misused.
Disability was ignored.
Rights were breached.
And SWANK has filed the consequence.
This wasn’t safeguarding.
This wasn’t enforcement.
This was retaliation dressed in compliance.
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