“Though the Witch knew the Deep Magic, there is a magic deeper still which she did not know. Her knowledge goes back only to the dawn of time. But if she could have looked a little further back… she would have known that when a willing victim who had committed no treachery was killed in a traitor’s stead, the Table would crack and Death itself would start working backward.” - Aslan, C.S. Lewis, The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe

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In re: The Unlawful Seizure and Degrading Treatment of Four Medically Vulnerable U.S. Citizen Minors



They are not safe. They are being treated like trash.

They must be returned home immediately, where they will be safe and properly cared for.

If you have any information about their location, treatment, or safeguarding breaches:
Email: safeguarding@swanklondon.com
All reports remain anonymous.


⚖️ Legal Rights & Archival Footer This Dispatch Has Been Formally Archived by SWANK London Ltd. Every entry is timestamped. Every sentence is jurisdictional. Every structure is protected. This document does not contain confidential family court material. It contains the lawful submissions, filings, and lived experiences of a party to multiple legal proceedings — including civil claims, safeguarding audits, and formal complaints. All references to professionals are strictly in their public roles and relate to conduct already raised in litigation. This is not a breach of privacy. It is the preservation of truth. Protected under Article 10 of the ECHR, Section 12 of the Human Rights Act, and all applicable rights to freedom of expression, legal self-representation, and public interest disclosure. To mimic this format without licence is not homage. It is breach. We do not permit imitation. We preserve it as evidence. This is not a blog. It is a legal-aesthetic instrument. Filed with velvet contempt. Preserved for future litigation. Because evidence deserves elegance, retaliation deserves an archive, and writing is how I survive this pain. Attempts to silence or intimidate this author will be documented and filed in accordance with SWANK protocols. © 2025 SWANK London Ltd. All formatting and structural rights reserved. Use requires express permission or formal licence. Unlicensed mimicry will be cited — as panic, not authorship.

Chromatic v Institutional Projection & Procedural Panic [2025] SWANK 9



⚖️ The Irony of Court: When Criminals File the Claims

A Note on Legal Projection, Procedural Theatre, and the Inconvenient Problem of Being Right


"The only thing more embarrassing than being wrong is trying to litigate against the truth."
— Polly Chromatic, Procedural Intermediary, SWANK London Ltd.


I. Mirror, Mirror: Who’s in the Dock?

It’s rather rich, isn’t it?

Those most implicated in procedural breaches, rights obstructions, falsified referrals, unlawful removals, and retaliatory safeguarding measures...
are the very ones dragging me into court.

Let us not mistake this for justice — this is projection.
A bureaucratic magic trick: invert the victim and the violator, spin it in safeguarding tinsel, and hope no one notices the misconduct underneath.

Unfortunately for them, I do notice.
And I write everything down.


II. Legal Systems Are For Everyone — Even People Who Know How They Work

I know the law. I follow it. I cite it. I format it exquisitely.

What unnerves these institutions is not lawlessness — but lawfulness wielded competently by someone outside their control.

They recoil when I ask for Article 6 compliance.
They panic when I invoke Bromley.
They shriek “non-engagement” when I email professionally, through my disability-access intermediary, with documented evidence.

Apparently, daring to follow the law too well is its own offence.
Hence, court.


III. The Court as Theatre — But Who's the Audience?

When those in power abuse their position and get caught, they don't apologize.
They retaliate.

They don't review the misconduct.
They escalate the paperwork.

And when you file claims against nine separate professionals, supported by evidentiary bundles, NHS admissions, safeguarding violations, and criminal filings —
they panic and sprint... to a judge.

As if the courtroom will cleanse them.

As if a summons can outpace the truth.


IV. Yes, I’ll See You in Court

I’ll bring:

  • Judicial review filings

  • Civil claims

  • Private prosecutions

  • UN complaints

  • Medical evidence

  • Police reports

  • Institutional audit logs

  • Procedural timelines

  • Velvet contempt

Let’s be clear:
You brought me here, hoping I wouldn’t speak.
But I don’t stammer anymore.
I archive.

And while they may enter the courtroom as litigants, they will leave as exhibits.


Filed with deliberate punctuation and gold-toned contempt,
Polly Chromatic
Litigant in Person
Director, SWANK London Ltd.
director@swanklondon.com
 www.swanklondon.com


⚖️ Legal Rights & Archival Footer This Dispatch Has Been Formally Archived by SWANK London Ltd. Every entry is timestamped. Every sentence is jurisdictional. Every structure is protected. This document does not contain confidential family court material. It contains the lawful submissions, filings, and lived experiences of a party to multiple legal proceedings — including civil claims, safeguarding audits, and formal complaints. All references to professionals are strictly in their public roles and relate to conduct already raised in litigation. This is not a breach of privacy. It is the preservation of truth. Protected under Article 10 of the ECHR, Section 12 of the Human Rights Act, and all applicable rights to freedom of expression, legal self-representation, and public interest disclosure. To mimic this format without licence is not homage. It is breach. We do not permit imitation. We preserve it as evidence. This is not a blog. It is a legal-aesthetic instrument. Filed with velvet contempt. Preserved for future litigation. Because evidence deserves elegance, retaliation deserves an archive, and writing is how I survive this pain. Attempts to silence or intimidate this author will be documented and filed in accordance with SWANK protocols. © 2025 SWANK London Ltd. All formatting and structural rights reserved. Use requires express permission or formal licence. Unlicensed mimicry will be cited — as panic, not authorship.

R (Chromatic) v Westminster: On the Misapplication of Section 17 and the Withdrawal of Support



Very Very Snobby Post No. 632.A

“We Were Statutorily Entitled to Help. They Gave Us Harm.”


Metadata

Filed Date: 13 July 2025
Reference Code: SWANK-A33-STAT632
Court File Name: 2025-07-13_Addendum_LocalAuthorityDuties_BreachOfSupport
Summary:
The Local Authority had a duty to provide support under s.17 of the Children Act 1989. Instead, it surveilled, punished, and abducted.


I. What Happened

Under Part III of the Children Act 1989, every local authority is placed under a general statutory duty to provide services to children in need and their families.

The law is not subtle.

It requires:

  • The promotion of emotional and physical wellbeing

  • Proactive family support, not surveillance

  • Coordination across agencies to ensure stability

None of this occurred in the case of Polly Chromatic and her four American children.

There was:

  • No s.17 assessment

  • No plan of support

  • No inter-agency collaboration

There was only:

  • Institutional escalation

  • Fabricated risk

  • Retaliation dressed up as concern

Instead of lawful help, the state offered harm — premeditated, performative, and punishable.


II. What the Law Says

Section 17(1) imposes a statutory duty to:

(a) safeguard and promote the welfare of children who are in need;
(b) promote their upbringing by their families, so far as consistent with their welfare.

A child qualifies as “in need” under s.17(10) if:

  • Their development is impaired without services

  • Their health is suffering

  • Or they are disabled

All four children qualified.
So did their mother.

Instead of complying, Westminster actively obstructed support:

  • Denied assessments

  • Rejected documentation

  • Coordinated defamation across agencies

  • Abused its discretion to manufacture grounds for removal

They didn’t just fail to comply with s.17.
They inverted it.


III. Why SWANK Logged It

Because the law does not permit Local Authorities to rewrite their duties into discretionary whims.
Because support is a right, not a narrative twist.
Because Section 17 was not cited — because they knew they couldn’t meet it.

When I referenced legal precedent, they responded with removal.
When I sent them actual legal text, they fabricated chaos.

This is no longer about error. It’s about pattern.


IV. Violations

  • Children Act 1989, s.17(1), s.17(10) – No services provided, no assessment conducted

  • Children Act 2004 – Breach of expanded coordination duties

  • Equality Act 2010 – Disability discrimination, refusal of adjustment

  • ECHR Article 8 – Family life violated without necessity or support

  • UNCRPD Article 23 – Family integrity and disability rights undermined

  • DfE Guidance – Partnership duties erased in favour of post-justification


V. SWANK’s Position

We did not request sympathy. We required compliance.

This family was never assessed.
This family was never supported.
This family was punished for having needs — and punished again for knowing the law.

Section 17 is not symbolic.
It is statutory.
It is clear.

And this post is now part of the official SWANK Evidentiary Catalogue, to be entered into the Master Retaliation Timeline, the Local Authority Statutory Failure Index, and — if needed — the Court of Law That Actually Reads Things™.

To every authority who thinks silence can’t be cited:

Try again. We keep receipts — and legislation.


✒️ Filed with legal cognition and saturated contempt,
Polly Chromatic
Director, SWANK London Ltd.
🌐 www.swanklondon.com


⚖️ Legal Rights & Archival Footer This Dispatch Has Been Formally Archived by SWANK London Ltd. Every entry is timestamped. Every sentence is jurisdictional. Every structure is protected. This document does not contain confidential family court material. It contains the lawful submissions, filings, and lived experiences of a party to multiple legal proceedings — including civil claims, safeguarding audits, and formal complaints. All references to professionals are strictly in their public roles and relate to conduct already raised in litigation. This is not a breach of privacy. It is the preservation of truth. Protected under Article 10 of the ECHR, Section 12 of the Human Rights Act, and all applicable rights to freedom of expression, legal self-representation, and public interest disclosure. To mimic this format without licence is not homage. It is breach. We do not permit imitation. We preserve it as evidence. This is not a blog. It is a legal-aesthetic instrument. Filed with velvet contempt. Preserved for future litigation. Because evidence deserves elegance, retaliation deserves an archive, and writing is how I survive this pain. Attempts to silence or intimidate this author will be documented and filed in accordance with SWANK protocols. © 2025 SWANK London Ltd. All formatting and structural rights reserved. Use requires express permission or formal licence. Unlicensed mimicry will be cited — as panic, not authorship.

In re Chromatic (A Mother) and Others, On the Pedagogy of Retaliation, the Curriculum of Control, and the Intellectual Resilience of the Unlawfully Separated



⟡ SWANK London Ltd.

✒️ Field Notes from the Kingdom:

An Educational Analysis of Forced Removal, Institutional Mislearning, and What Our Family Learned Faster


I. CURRICULUM: What They Intended Us to Learn

The forced separation of my children under the guise of safeguarding was an exercise in coercive pedagogy — designed to teach compliance through:

  • Disruption of routine

  • Surveillance as normality

  • Medical neglect as authority

  • Silence as protection

  • Confusion as policy

It was a lesson plan in obedient erasure, with no measurable learning outcomes — except for us.


II. CLASSROOM CONDITIONS: The Institution as Pedagogue

Children were placed in environments:

  • With no continuity of care

  • Without their medically required peak flow meters or daily prescriptions

  • Where basic requests (hair braiding, gym visits, device access) were arbitrarily denied

  • While emotional bonds and global citizenship rights were suspended without notice

This is not education. This is pedagogical sabotage.


III. LEARNING OUTCOMES: What We Learned

Despite everything, our family learned more than the system intended:

  1. Institutional Fear ≠ Authority
    Power wavers when recorded. Institutions act erratically when confronted with intelligence they cannot control.

  2. Disruption is the first language of systemic harm
    When the state cannot answer questions, it changes the subject — often by moving your children.

  3. Bureaucracies teach more by mistake than design
    Their email chains, omissions, and delay tactics revealed the true syllabus: self-preservation at any cost.

  4. Love is still measurable
    Even without contact, our children still knew what was missing, what was unfair, and who never stopped writing.


IV. PEDAGOGICAL CONCLUSIONS

The Local Authority claims to educate by placement.
But we have now documented the reverse:
A curriculum of trauma, justified by opacity.
A module on disempowerment, taught through case notes.
A pop quiz on identity, held under supervision.

The only learners here were us.
And we passed.


V. SWANK’s Position

If this is what the state calls “education,” we reject the syllabus.
If this is safeguarding, we file it under archived irony.

Our family, despite separation, remains a unit of accelerated cognition.
We have learned what they refuse to teach:

  • That safeguarding is only meaningful when rooted in truth

  • That procedural violence cannot survive archival daylight

  • That we were never the confused ones

We are not waiting to be taught.
We are grading the system — and returning it marked:

FAIL: Insufficient understanding of law, ethics, child development, or basic decency.


⟡ This Dispatch Has Been Formally Archived by SWANK London Ltd. ⟡ Every entry is timestamped. Every sentence is jurisdictional. Every structure is protected. To mimic this format without licence is not homage. It is breach. We do not permit imitation. We preserve it as evidence. This is not a blog. This is a legal-aesthetic instrument. Filed with velvet contempt, preserved for future litigation. Because evidence deserves elegance. And retaliation deserves an archive. © 2025 SWANK London Ltd. All formatting and structural rights reserved. Use requires express permission or formal licence. Unlicensed mimicry will be cited — as panic, not authorship.

In re Chromatic v. Westminster, Regarding the Forced Removal of Four U.S. Citizen Children and the Filing That Refused to Whisper



⟡ SWANK London Ltd. Evidentiary Archive

Emergency as Etiquette: The Injunction They Expected Not to Arrive

In re Chromatic v. Westminster, Regarding the Forced Removal of Four U.S. Citizen Children and the Filing That Refused to Whisper


📎 Metadata

Filed: 7 July 2025
Reference Code: SWL-JR-0624-INJUNCTION
Court File Name: 2025-06-24_SWANK_EmergencyInjunctionRequest_ChildrenReturn
1-line summary: Emergency Injunction Hearing Request submitted following unlawful removal of children, supported by JR, psychiatric evidence, and retaliation addendum.


I. What Happened

At precisely 00:59 on 24 June 2025, Polly Chromatic submitted an Emergency Injunction Hearing Request to the Administrative Court — in response to the unlawful, retaliatory, and medically endangering removal of her four children by Westminster Children’s Services.

This submission followed a Judicial Review filing already in progress, and included:

  • A cover letter of lethal grace

  • A psychiatric letter documenting disability-related communication restrictions

  • The full Judicial Review bundle

  • An addendum on retaliatory removal

  • fee exemption form, because justice should not be subject to overdraft


II. What the Request Establishes

  • That Romeo, age 16, was removed without warrant, legal process, or consent

  • That his three younger siblings were removed under similarly opaque conditions

  • That the removals occurred after civil litigation had been filed, and are best understood as a form of legalised reprisal

  • That the Equality Act 2010 was violated through denial of disability accommodation, resulting in exclusion from proceedings and a forced police removal

An injunction was not a legal escalation.
It was a moral corrective.


III. Why SWANK Logged It

Because when the institutions remove your children while pretending you’re not in litigation, you must become both litigant and historian.

Because this request is not just for relief — it is a ceremonial restoration of jurisdiction.
A declaration that you cannot lawfully remove four disabled children without triggering a judicial echo.

And because silence is not an outcome when your filing is timestamped, medically substantiated, and elegantly damning.


IV. Violations and Relief Sought

  • Violation of Article 8 ECHR – Family and private life

  • Unlawful removal under the Children Act 1989

  • Denial of disability rights under the Equality Act 2010

  • Retaliation for active litigation

  • Exclusion of a litigant in person during safeguarding escalation

Requested relief: Emergency injunctionimmediate reinstatement of children, and court oversight of all future decisions involving safeguarding, access, or relocation.


V. SWANK’s Position

This was not a desperate filing.
It was a controlled ignition — designed to trigger judicial attention with precision, clarity, and zero theatrics.

SWANK London Ltd hereby asserts that this request stands as both legal action and historical witness:
To the removal.
To the retaliation.
To the refusal of silence.

Let this be known:
We filed it.
They received it.
We archived it before they could ignore it.


⟡ This Dispatch Has Been Formally Archived by SWANK London Ltd. ⟡ Every entry is timestamped. Every sentence is jurisdictional. Every structure is protected. To mimic this format without licence is not homage. It is breach. We do not permit imitation. We preserve it as evidence. This is not a blog. This is a legal-aesthetic instrument. Filed with velvet contempt, preserved for future litigation. Because evidence deserves elegance. And retaliation deserves an archive. © 2025 SWANK London Ltd. All formatting and structural rights reserved. Use requires express permission or formal licence. Unlicensed mimicry will be cited — as panic, not authorship.

Chromatic v Westminster: The Legal Nullity of Removal Without Law

⟡ APPLICATION FOR REINSTATEMENT OF CUSTODY ⟡
"Jurisdictionally Void, Procedurally Absent, and Morally Reprehensible"


Filed: 25 June 2025
Reference: SWANK/JURIS/0625-01
📎 Download PDF – 2025-06-25_SWANK_Application_ReinstatementOfCustody.pdf
This document requests immediate custody reinstatement due to unlawful removal and regulatory collapse.


I. What Happened

On 23 June 2025, four U.S. citizen children were removed from their home without service of a valid court order, advance notice, or procedural safeguard. No Interim Supervision Order was lawfully served. The applicant, Polly Chromatic, was denied participation in any hearing beforehand. Social worker contact resumed despite active Judicial Review proceedings.


II. What the Complaint Establishes

  • There was no judicial process consistent with Family Procedure Rules

  • The children were removed absent legal clarity or authority

  • Retaliatory safeguarding occurred in response to SWANK filings and public record activity

  • Regulatory bodies failed to intervene, despite notice


III. Why SWANK Logged It

Because the Family Court cannot allow the removal of children based on informal threats, bureaucratic backchannels, or retrospective justification. Because constitutional, international, and domestic norms require due process — and it was conspicuously denied. Because a mother should not need to sue for recognition of her legal parenthood in the face of state silence.


IV. Violations

  • Children Act 1989 – Unlawful interference with family life

  • Family Procedure Rules – Breach of notice, participation, and hearing rights

  • Article 8, ECHR – Right to family life

  • Vienna Convention – U.S. consular notification failure


V. SWANK’s Position

This removal was not child protection.
It was system protection.
It was not lawful.
It was not procedural.
It was not humane.

The Family Court is asked to either reinstate custody immediately or compel Westminster Council to justify their actions in a hearing held on record — not behind locked doors.


⟡ This Dispatch Has Been Formally Archived by SWANK London Ltd. ⟡ Every entry is timestamped. Every sentence is jurisdictional. Every structure is protected. To mimic this format without licence is not homage. It is breach. We do not permit imitation. We preserve it as evidence. This is not a blog. This is a legal-aesthetic instrument. Filed with velvet contempt, preserved for future litigation. Because evidence deserves elegance. And retaliation deserves an archive. © 2025 SWANK London Ltd. All formatting and structural rights reserved. Use requires express permission or formal licence. Unlicensed mimicry will be cited — as panic, not authorship.

Chromatic v Commissioner of Police for the Metropolis: A Household Seized Without Law or Logic



⟡ FORCED FAMILY DISMANTLING BY UNIFORM ⟡
No Warrant. No Safeguard. No Shame.


Filed: 26 June 2025
Reference: SWK/POL-REMOVAL/0623-2025
📎 Download PDF – 2025-06-26_SWANK_Removal_MetPolice_UnlawfulExtraction.pdf
1-line summary: Police removed children from their home without legal grounds, process, or protection.


I. What Happened

On 23 June 2025, five Metropolitan Police officers forced entry into the home of Polly Chromatic — a disabled mother — and extracted her children without any lawful documentation. The removal occurred while the children were peacefully playing and their mother was in her bedroom. No Emergency Protection Order, Police Protection Order, or voluntary consent under Section 20 existed. No safeguarding risk was presented. No trauma-informed worker was present.


II. What the Complaint Establishes

  • No legal basis for police entry or removal

  • Failure to meet any statutory threshold under Children Act 1989

  • No documentation, no warrant, no prior notice

  • Discriminatory and coercive action targeting a disabled parent

  • Breaches of Articles 6 and 8 of the Human Rights Act

  • Violation of international law under the UNCRC


III. Why SWANK Logged It

This wasn’t safeguarding. It was state-sponsored trauma.
When the system finds no fault, it fabricates one.
The silence around this act of seizure is a howl of institutional complicity — and we archived it.


IV. Violations

  • Children Act 1989, Sections 44, 46, and 20 – No valid protective basis

  • PACE 1984 – No warrant or legal entry justification

  • Equality Act 2010 – No disability accommodations

  • Human Rights Act 1998, Articles 6 & 8 – Denial of due process and family life

  • UN Convention on the Rights of the Child, Articles 3 & 9 – Separation without judicial review


V. SWANK’s Position

The Metropolitan Police acted not as protectors of the law, but as enforcers of procedural fiction.
Their actions rewrote a family’s reality — but we rewrote it back.
This was an extraction, not an intervention.

We will escalate to:

  • IOPC

  • EHRC

  • PHSO

  • Judicial Review proceedings (if required)

This is not forgotten. This is archived.


⟡ This Dispatch Has Been Formally Archived by SWANK London Ltd. ⟡ Every entry is timestamped. Every sentence is jurisdictional. Every structure is protected. To mimic this format without licence is not homage. It is breach. We do not permit imitation. We preserve it as evidence. This is not a blog. This is a legal-aesthetic instrument. Filed with velvet contempt, preserved for future litigation. Because evidence deserves elegance. And retaliation deserves an archive. © 2025 SWANK London Ltd. All formatting and structural rights reserved. Use requires express permission or formal licence. Unlicensed mimicry will be cited — as panic, not authorship.

Chromatic v Metropolitan Police: In the Matter of Unlawful Removal, Missing Orders, and Procedural Theatre



⟡ “No Order, No Justification, Just Screams” ⟡
A filmed removal. Five officers. Zero paperwork. A legal vacuum with blue epaulettes.

Filed: 26 June 2025
Reference: SWANK/METPOL/SF-REMOVAL-01
📎 Download PDF – 2025-06-26_SWANK_Removal_MetPolice_UnlawfulExtraction.pdf
Video evidence and incident account of a child removal conducted without lawful authority, warrant, or safeguarding rationale.


I. What Happened

On 23 June 2025 at 1:30pm, five uniformed officers from the Metropolitan Police entered the family residence at London W2 6JL. They proceeded to remove all 4 children from their mother, Polly Chromatic (Director, SWANK London Ltd.), without presenting a court order, warrant, emergency protection order, or any written documentation whatsoever. The children were visibly distressed, begging not to be separated from their lawful parent.

The removal was filmed in full and is now publicly available via SWANK’s evidentiary archive:

🎥 Watch the removal video


II. What the Complaint Establishes

  • Procedural Breach: No lawful authority presented — no warrant, no emergency order, no Section 20 consent, and no legal threshold met for removal.

  • Human Impact: Four broken-hearted children forcibly removed from their home, weeping and terrified, with no trauma-informed mitigation.

  • Power Dynamics: Five armed agents of the state versus one disabled mother and her children, with no safeguarding professional present.

  • Institutional Failure: A policing body acting extrajudicially, bypassing court authority, with no documentation or clinical oversight.

  • What’s Not Acceptable: When the law is absent and uniforms are present, we are not in a democracy. We are in performance.


III. Why SWANK Logged It

Because child removal without legal basis is not rare — it is routine, and routinised. Because silence would imply consent, and SWANK does not consent to state overreach disguised as "concern."

Because the image of four children being dragged from their mother without paperwork should haunt every bureaucrat who signs off such conduct.

Because mothers are not meant to narrate their child’s abduction in legal prose. But if we must, it will be with velvet gloves and juridical knives.


IV. Violations

  • Children Act 1989 – Section 44 (no EPO); Section 46 (no police protection threshold met); Section 20 (no consent)

  • Human Rights Act 1998 – Article 8 (Right to private and family life), Article 6 (Right to fair process)

  • Equality Act 2010 – Failure to consider disability accommodations; discriminatory enforcement

  • PACE 1984 – Entry without warrant; no lawful justification under Part II

  • UNCRC – Article 9 (Separation without judicial scrutiny); Article 3 (Best interests not paramount)


V. SWANK’s Position

This was not safeguarding. It was seizure.
This was not lawful enforcement. It was theatre in uniform.
We do not accept removals with no legal basis.
We do not accept unfiled trauma.
We do not accept five officers and zero signatures.

This incident is now formally archived.
It will be cited. It will be pursued.
And it will never be forgotten.


⟡ This Dispatch Has Been Formally Archived by SWANK London Ltd. ⟡
Every entry is timestamped. Every sentence is jurisdictional. Every structure is protected.
To mimic this format without licence is not homage. It is breach. We do not permit imitation. We preserve it as evidence.

This is not a blog. This is a legal-aesthetic instrument. Filed with velvet contempt, preserved for future litigation.
Because evidence deserves elegance. And retaliation deserves an archive.

© 2025 SWANK London Ltd. All formatting and structural rights reserved.
Use requires express permission or formal licence. Unlicensed mimicry will be cited — as panic, not authorship.



Polly Chromatic v Metropolitan Police: Unlawful Removal of Disabled Children Without Legal Grounds



⟡ “You Came Without a Warrant. You Took Four Children. You Ignored the Law Because Someone Told You To.” ⟡
This Was Not Enforcement. This Was Escorting Retaliation.

Filed: 24 June 2025
Reference: SWANK/METPOLICE/COMPLAINT-REMOVAL-01
📎 Download PDF – 2025-06-24_SWANK_Complaint_MetPolice_DisabledChildrenUnlawfulRemoval.pdf
Formal complaint to the Metropolitan Police regarding their role in the removal of four disabled U.S. citizen children without lawful authority, medical consideration, or legal procedure.


I. What Happened

On 22 June 2025, officers from the Metropolitan Police accompanied Westminster Children’s Services to forcibly remove four U.S. citizen children from their home — children with known disabilities and medical needs. Their mother, Polly Chromatic, a disabled U.S. citizen with muscle dysphonia, complex PTSD, and eosinophilic asthma, was not served a court order, not given prior notice, and not accommodated as required by law. The police acted as enforcers of a completely undocumented removal — during an active Judicial Review and within 48 hours of a criminal referral naming the very same officials.


II. What the Complaint Establishes

  • Officers attended without a warrant, order, or legal basis

  • Disability accommodations were ignored despite longstanding written notification

  • The removal was executed during live legal action and under diplomatic protection

  • No medical transition plan, documentation, or judicial authority was presented

  • Four disabled children were subjected to trauma with police assistance — while in the care of a parent who had committed no crime

This wasn’t law enforcement. It was a civil kidnapping co-signed by uniform.


III. Why SWANK Logged It

Because the police are not above the law — they are supposed to uphold it.
Because showing up without a warrant and calling it safeguarding isn’t brave — it’s bureaucratic obedience.
Because trauma isn’t reduced by badges — it’s legitimised by them.
Because the only documentation provided in this removal was archived after the fact — by the mother, not the officers.
Because children are not leverage, and uniforms are not immunity.


IV. Violations

  • Equality Act 2010, Sections 20 & 29 – Disability-based exclusion from protection and process

  • Police and Criminal Evidence Act 1984 (PACE) – Entry without warrant or lawful cause

  • Children Act 1989 – Removal without lawful authority or safeguarding threshold

  • Human Rights Act 1998, Articles 6 and 8 – Denial of fair hearing; interference with family life

  • UN Convention on the Rights of the Child, Article 9 – Unlawful separation without lawful review

  • UNCRPD Articles 13 & 14 – Discriminatory and arbitrary interference with disabled parent’s rights


V. SWANK’s Position

This wasn’t protection. It was state-facilitated trauma, delivered by police van.
This wasn’t legal. It was officer-enabled retaliation against an evidentiary archivist.
This wasn’t an oversight. It was a calculated avoidance of all documentation — because they knew the archive existed.

SWANK hereby logs this event as a breach of dignity, law, and procedural order.
We were not confused. We were excluded.
We were not mistaken. We were silenced.

This post serves as both record and indictment.


⟡ This Dispatch Has Been Formally Archived by SWANK London Ltd. ⟡
Every entry is timestamped.
Every sentence is jurisdictional.
Every structure is protected.
To mimic this format without licence is not homage. It is breach.
We do not permit imitation. We preserve it as evidence.

This is not a blog.
This is a legal-aesthetic instrument.
Filed with velvet contempt, preserved for future litigation.

Because evidence deserves elegance.
And retaliation deserves an archive.

© 2025 SWANK London Ltd. All formatting and structural rights reserved.
Use requires express permission or formal licence. Unlicensed mimicry will be cited — as panic, not authorship.


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Polly Chromatic v Westminster: FOI Request for the Files Behind the Secret Removal



⟡ “If This Was Lawful, Show the Paperwork.” ⟡
A Freedom of Information Request, Because Secrets Are Not a Safeguarding Tool.

Filed: 23 June 2025
Reference: SWANK/FOI/WESTMINSTER-REMOVAL-0623
📎 Download PDF – 2025-06-23_SWANK_FOI_Westminster_ChildrenRemoval_RecordsRequest.pdf
Formal FOI request demanding disclosure of all documentation surrounding the removal of four U.S. citizen children.


I. What Happened

On 23 June 2025, Polly Chromatic submitted a Freedom of Information Act request to Westminster City Council following the sudden removal of her four U.S. citizen children from their home at approximately 1:37 PM. The removal was carried out without service, notice, representation, or visible legal authority. The FOI request demands production of all communications, risk assessments, court documents, and coordination records from Westminster Children’s Services and any affiliated police agencies involved between 17–24 June 2025. It specifically asks for identification of the individuals who approved, planned, or executed the act.


II. What the Complaint Establishes

  • Four American children were taken without paperwork shown or served

  • No hearing was attended or accessed by their disabled mother

  • No agency has disclosed the internal basis for the action

  • Westminster has treated transparency as optional and process as private

  • This FOI request forces the record out from behind the curtain

This wasn’t a protective intervention. It was a procedural ambush buried in bureaucratic opacity.


III. Why SWANK Logged It

Because if there was a lawful reason — it would already be on the table.
Because transparency delayed is justice denied.
Because a removal without record is not safeguarding — it’s jurisdictional vandalism.
Because FOI isn’t just an administrative request. In this context, it’s a demand for institutional confession.
Because no child’s life should be altered in secret — and then left undocumented.


IV. Violations

  • Freedom of Information Act 2000 – Failure to proactively disclose significant public actions

  • Children Act 1989 – Absence of procedural protection in removal

  • Equality Act 2010 – Disability-based exclusion from participation

  • Human Rights Act 1998, Articles 6 and 8 – Right to fair procedure and family life

  • UNCRC, Articles 9 and 12 – Removal without cause, consultation, or transparency

  • Common Law Duty of Candour – Evasion of responsibility through silence


V. SWANK’s Position

This wasn’t just secrecy. It was institutional cowardice disguised as discretion.
This wasn’t a record. It was a paperless process built on tactical omission.
This wasn’t lawful. It was documentless power used against the voiceless.

SWANK demands full disclosure.
The archive doesn’t wait politely for injustice to explain itself — it serves notice that concealment will be published.


⟡ This Dispatch Has Been Formally Archived by SWANK London Ltd. ⟡
Every entry is timestamped.
Every sentence is jurisdictional.
Every structure is protected.
To mimic this format without licence is not homage. It is breach.
We do not permit imitation. We preserve it as evidence.

This is not a blog.
This is a legal-aesthetic instrument.
Filed with velvet contempt, preserved for future litigation.

Because evidence deserves elegance.
And retaliation deserves an archive.

© 2025 SWANK London Ltd. All formatting and structural rights reserved.
Use requires express permission or formal licence. Unlicensed mimicry will be cited — as panic, not authorship.


⟡ This Dispatch Has Been Formally Archived by SWANK London Ltd. ⟡ Every entry is timestamped. Every sentence is jurisdictional. Every structure is protected. To mimic this format without licence is not homage. It is breach. We do not permit imitation. We preserve it as evidence. This is not a blog. This is a legal-aesthetic instrument. Filed with velvet contempt, preserved for future litigation. Because evidence deserves elegance. And retaliation deserves an archive. © 2025 SWANK London Ltd. All formatting and structural rights reserved. Use requires express permission or formal licence. Unlicensed mimicry will be cited — as panic, not authorship.