Monday, 24 September 2012

Andrew Mitchell row: Police log details 'plebs' comment

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Official police records of the confrontation between the Chief Whip Andrew Mitchell and officials in Downing Street last week has been released in its entirety for the first time.

The Daily Telegraph printed a document will strengthen Mr Mitchell called the officers "Plebs", something he has not been.

It comes as the Met says, to probe how the media got hold of the records.

The Government has ordered a study on the line.

Cabinet Secretary Sir Jeremy Heywood, confirmed the decision on Monday to explain to Mr Mitchell had apologized and the Metropolitan Police Commissioner Bernard Hogan Howe had said involved an officer wanted to take the matter forward.

Visibly shocked by the

Log, shortly after the incident on Wednesday, written information on Mitchell's outburst, when he was asked to use a small pedestrian gate as the main gate.

It suggests that he used several expletives, telling police, "you do not run this Government," "learn your place," and requires officials to "Tribune of the Plebs".

According to the note, the members of the public in the operation were "visibly upset" and Mitchell were arrested under the public order law, if he continued to swear.

"Mr Mitchell was then and left, saying," you have not heard of in the past, "as he cycled off," the document says.

Announcement follows Mitchell's apology on Monday, where he said he was sorry is not good enough, with respect for the police.

However, he maintained that he "does not use the words".

He said the case had become a "long and very frustrating time" at the end and he wanted to "draw a line" line.

At the same time, David Cameron has supported the Minister in the Cabinet Office and the Met have agreed not to take it forward.

But police and labour, and called for a parliamentary inquiry, even though some of the Lib-Dems were unimpressed by the Mitchell's statement.

The shadow Police Minister David Hanson said: "If the number 10 did not believe the testimony of a number of police officers, which Downing Street is very serious.

"If the Prime Minister does not have a chief whip and, Alternatively, tell the whole story, which is just as serious.

"What it is now, without doubt, (David Cameron) is a weak Prime Minister, may establish the truth about what goes on-even just a few metres away from the immediate vicinity of their own."

John Tully, Chairman of the Metropolitan Police Federation, also stressed his concern: "clearly against Mitchell's claim is to prohibit using certain words effectively now for those police integrity.

"I think this is a very serious matter."

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