Nidge wrote:
Mr Nigel Marchant
93 ******* Lane
Mansfield
Notts
Dear Nigel
I would like to take this opportunity to thank you for the assistance you gave to me and my colleague in the early hours of Sunday 29th of August, 2004. At that time a car had failed to stop when required to by police officers and had subsequently been abandoned.
One occupant had been found and arrested immediately but the other youth went to ground. I later found him on Big Barn Lane and he ran off pursued by a dog officer and his dog. You assisted by helping to maintain a cordon from which he couldn’t escape and directing officers to where the youth was last seen. He was later arrested in a garden pond. Both youths were subsequently interviewed with regard to vehicle and drugs offences.
In order to police the streets in our county we rely heavily on the goodwill of decent members of society who are prepared to put themselves out in order to assist us. For this I would wish to take this opportunity to thank you once again.
Yours sincerely
Steve O’Connell
Police Sergeant 2293
Notts Police Dog Section
Here Nigel could this copper, with the dog, be the same copper that set the dog on striking miners?
These youths may have found gainful employment if it wasn’t for these coppers, and dogs, doing Thatcher’s bidding in getting the mine’s closed down.