April 1st, 2010

MyPolice.Org Impersonated by Police Inspectorate

Her Majesty’s Inspectorate of Constabulary have set up a rival site to the social enterprise MyPolice.Org using almost the same name they just added the suffix .uk.  If the blogosphere links to the original it will go to the top of Google’s search page displacing the impersonator.

It would of course, as everyone left and right agrees, be a lot easier if the impersonators changed their name.

Meantime show MyPolice.Org some linky love and give it some Google-juice…

UPDATE : Her Majesty’s Inspectorate of Constabulary have put their hands up and surrendered the MyPolice.Org.UK web domain.  Yay! Fight the powers that be…


140 Comments

  1. 1
    NuStasi says:

    Copy Pigs

    • 18
      Anonymous says:

      I bet the tall one is dirty.
      Dirty in a Tracey Emin sort of dirty way.

    • 27
      Lightweight Cast Iron says:

      OT: I notice BBC 5L are doing a mock “live outside broadcast from the 1980s”.

      I wonder if they’ll mention evil Torys, poll tax riots and Thatcher biting the limbs from babies, at all…

      • 40
        Mr Ned says:

        There has been a lot of things on the BBC lately looking back 20 years. They all seem to pick up on “Thatcher”, “Poll tax riots” or just rioting in general.

        • 47
          DNTT says:

          The only ones that complained about Community Charge were the idle militant socialists that didn’t want to pay to have their rubbish collected.

          They probably got paid in baccy and cider by the NUS rep to wag University for the day.

          Nice day out in London, push some barriers over, flick the V at Nelson, graduate with a meeeja stupidities degree and then join the BBC as a local gobshite researcher.

        • 48
          Lightweight Cast Iron says:

          strange, that…

        • 85
          PRAVDA oops BBC says:

          your not suggesting we are up to some thing, or maybe somethings in the pipeline and we are acclimatising

        • 136

          That’s ‘cos they’ve got another series of Ashes to Ashes starting on Friday night. The series ‘Life on Mars’ and ‘Ashes to Ashes’ have been one of the (few) vehicles which the audience has taken to. It’s natural for the BBC to feel nostalgic for the days when people regarded the BBC as a national asset and an independent source of reliable reporting, as opposed to the spin arm of government.

  2. 2
    Tom Loosemore says:

    Looks like Her Maj’s Inspectorate just saw the light, and have gracefully agreed to change the name and urls of their site.

    http://www.mypolice.org/?p=496&cpage=1#comment-118

    • 12
      Anonymous says:

      Well done the police. But it’s a lesson to would-be web site owners – buy all the possible names relating to your site.

    • 22
      50 Calibre says:

      Good. It was a bit silly of them to copy the name in the first place. Obviously somebody with some common sense has prevailed here.

    • 63
      Sir William Waad says:

      It’s a fair cop, but Society’s to blame.

  3. 3
    Gnome Central says:

    I think this has been sorted out without your help

    Statement from HMIC

    HMIC will stop using the ‘my police’ name.

    We have been working with the mypolice.org founders since 08 March 2010 to address their concerns and to provide the best possible solution.

    They asked that we stop marketing ‘mypolice.org.uk’ as a redirect page, since the public might confuse this with their service. We agreed, and now only refer to http://www.hmic.gov.uk/mypolice. We also agreed not to renew our ownership of any of the ‘mypolice’ domains. This will give them the opportunity to buy and use them when they get their service up and running.

    To ensure the public gets the benefits of both services with no chance of confusion, we will change the name of the ‘my police’ pages on our website. We are currently consulting on the best option, and will announce the results in the next week.

    We have nothing to gain by trampling on mypolice.org: and as an independent organisation ourselves, we would never wish to do so. Indeed, throughout our negotiations we have both been keen to stress that we can usefully work together in the future

    STATEMENT FROM MYPOLICE.ORG

    “We would like to say thank you to Denis O’Connor for enabling us to continue on this journey as MyPolice.org.

    We think HMIC’s product is a very good idea, it is important to enable the public to rate and score their local force but our product is different. We think HMIC’s product compliments MyPolice. There are many ways we could work together. Firstly, in bringing our empathy fueled data together with your accurate statistics we would create something powerful. Secondly, when people ask us questions about the performance of their local force we will happily signpost them to the HMIC site. Now let’s get on with the real work and collaborate to bring the police and public together.”

  4. 4
    Animal says:

    This all sounds suspiciously like a public sector department getting completely the wrong idea about a third party intiative and trying to scupper it with a barrowload of public cash, then rowing back after seeing the first wave of criticism hit their desks.

    Apparently HMIC are now taking steps to distance themselves from mypolice.org by renaming their site. It remains to be seen of course whether they now cancel their PPC work; be a good idea to keep a watching brief on this one.

  5. 5
  6. 6
    Anonymous says:

    Having looked and wasted minutes of my life, I have no idea WTF either of these are about. Hope they both crash and burn. Pointless nonentities creating jobs for the otherwise unemployable.

    • 8

      Agreed.

      I wouldn’t give either of those sites the steam from my piss.

      • 11
        Private Sponge says:

        Fully agree

      • 15
        Right Bastard says:

        Or the smell from my farts.

      • 24
        Mary Hinge says:

        And certainly won’t be letting them have the crust off my gusset.

      • 139
        Anonymous says:

        Nothing to bleat about. myPolice.org looks like what it is – a student vanity project which doesn’t allow me to do anything except comment on their fight with the government.

        “we are piloting it in the New Year and plan to launch UK wide in Easter. Watch this space.” Well your launch went well and got zillions of coverage but there is NOTHING THERE.

        Where is the myMyPolice so I can complain about their lack of ANYTHING.

    • 28
      Shardenne Froider says:

      But they “…believe that design can make social change happen….” So, not naive bollocks at all then.

      • 37
        Gordon Brown stole my pension says:

        Maybe they went to the Tony Blair School of Bullshit.

        Remember when His Holiness said of the £400,000 2012 Olympics logo: ‘When people see the new brand, we want them to be inspired to make a positive change in their life.’

        http://www.metro.co.uk/news/51690-trendy-london-2012-logo-branded-a-flop

        Christ, and they’re wheeling this guy out in attempt to win the election?

      • 76
        Mr Ned says:

        They are run by people who have no shame in calling themselves, “service designers” SERVICE designers. IF there is need for a service, it will present itself clearly and unambiguously by the actions of those who need the service.

        There is NO NEED in the current economic climate to pay anyone money to DESIGN a service. We do need for services to be managed and implemented properly, we do not services designing, as services are designed by the need for that service arising and then the service is further refined by the feedback by the users of that service.

  7. 7
    Hairy Palms of Hamstead says:

    Happens all the time these days.Wankers nicking domain names and causing confusion.
    The other week I thought I was watching ‘Mumsnetstockings’ with a gimp on talking about my favourite sex game ‘Biscuit’.
    Nah it was Gordon fucking Brown.

  8. 9
    Old Nick Heavenly(really happy with my non country resident's permit and id card. Yes I am legal!) says:

    Having just read the headline on the Daily Mail, the sexual abuse of a 6 year old by 23 pupils in the playground then the solution to Great Shitney is clear.

    Kill the flukin lot of you! Total cull. Britney is beyond repair.

    What a disgusting shithole.

    VILE

    • 13
      Anonymous says:

      … that’s the Welsh for you.

      • 14
        Old Nick Heavenly(really happy with my non country resident's permit and id card. Yes I am legal!) says:

        No outrage, no surprise, just…

        that’s the Welsh for you.

        • 17
          Old Nick Heavenly(really happy with my non country resident's permit and id card. Yes I am legal!) says:

          Your de-humanisation is complete!

          The STATE have won!

          Crawl up your own arses and die!

          • Spake the smug c*nt, sat upon his Belgian throne of shit, sneering at England.

            You really are a wankstain of the highest order Nick.

            Take a flying fuck at a rolling hole, spaz face.

            No one gives a fuck about what you think.

          • Old Nick Heavenly(really happy with my non country resident's permit and id card. Yes I am legal!) says:

            Crawl up your own arse and die,slave!

          • Old Nick Heavenly(really happy with my non country resident's permit and id card. Yes I am legal!) says:

            What is there not to sneer at, give me a list of what there is not to sneer at, slave!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

          • Piss off says:

            Nick couldn’t make it in England and is currently sponging off his unfaithful continental wife and living in her parent’s Belgian flat.

          • Fucking feeble, Nick.

            Some people still love this country, despite what’s being done to it, some people are trying to change that.

            You, of course, would rather sneer, from a country full of p*edos.

            You’re fucking pathetic Nick.

            Now, finish up your spunk covered fries, take your kicking and fuck off.

          • Old Nick Heavenly(really happy with my non country resident's permit and id card. Yes I am legal!) says:

            OI SLAVE, I see endless lists here of what there is to sneer at in Great Shitney

            What is there not to sneer at, give me a list of what there is not to sneer at, slave!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

            C’omon: tell me, just what?

          • Martin Day says:

            We don’t have to live in Belgium.

          • Gordon Brown stole my pension says:

            Harvey’s Real Ale.
            Matt Cartoons.
            Fish and Chips.
            Waitrose.
            American films without subtitles.
            Somewhat better drivers.
            Not as close to France.
            The Duke of Edinburgh’s witty comments to Johnny Foreigner.

          • You’ve been owned Nick, comprehensively, by someone who can spell and use punctuation.

            You have nothing to say, you’re just repeating yourself.

            Now do one.

          • Old Nick Heavenly(really happy with my non country resident's permit and id card. Yes I am legal!) says:

            No answer to the question.

            It was so EASY for the politicos to steal YOUR country.

            With people like you as patriots it is no surpise is it?

            All yoiu have are lies, smears and the constant attempt to supress freedom of speech. You are one of those nulabour shits, aren’t you, slave.

          • I’m an honest right winger you assumptive c*nt.

            Never voted Labour.

            Shows how much you know, doesn’t it. Moron.

          • Old Nick Heavenly(really happy with my non country resident's permit and id card. Yes I am legal!) says:

            Honest, HONEST????????????

            When you constantly steal other people’s names and never answer a simple question.

            You are right, I am wasting my time here.

            Here’s wishing you another 5 years of Brown, slave.

          • Anon says:

            Only wankers double space, Nick.

          • I make my own names up you cretin, i don’t steal other peoples. Wrong again, eh Nick.

            Concrete pump, continuous flight auger. Both me. You twat.

            To answer your question – there are many things to sneer at in this country, but i try not to, because as i wrote previously, despite the state it’s in, i still love it.

            If you hate this country so much Nick, i think it’s best you don’t comment on it. Your hatred is obviously having an effect on your IQ.

            Spacktard!

    • 26
      Sheep Shagger nonce welsh fucks says:

      The fucking head and teachers must all be a bunch of fucking nonces.

    • 46
      You were here then says:

      thought that was with James Bulger

      • 91
        nuff seds head says:

        wot abar MARC DUTROUX nuff sed

        • 124
          stilyagi_air_corps says:

          I always thought Ol’ Nick H. was an OK sort, from his comments. I actually had him down as someone who, once upon a time, wore the country of his birth proudly emblazoned on his bottom rocker. I was obviously wrong – more like a Hippie who couldn’t survive here post CJB.

          Well, Nick, if it kicks off en Belgique before it does here, and you need to return to these shores with your tail between your legs, remember how popular Marlene Diertrich was when she returned to Berlin. She may have been right, but the poor bastards who endured the Hell she missed out on never forgave her.

    • 51
      Sir William Waad says:

      We are indeed in a bad way if people start believing what they read in the Daily Wail. Even the scullery maid at Waad Towers claims that “she only reads it for the horoscope”.

      • 97
        Mr Ned says:

        Sir William Waad,

        This was the top story on the BBC news this morning too. And is in the independent, the telegraph, the Sun and elsewhere.

        Are you seriously suggesting that this abuse did NOT take place? Are you covering up for pervs and child molesters?

    • 81
      Mr Ned says:

      Just like the Scottish case of Hollie Greig. Local social services and police refusing to take action against a whole host of child abusers.

      The teachers, the other helping staff, the parents/guardians of the other children involved should ALL have been investigated. Instead they brush it all under the carpet.

      I will bet a pound to a penny that senior members of the Establishment in that locality are involved.

      • 90
        Tonto says:

        if its that bad they might have least put it in the bin rather than brush it under the carpet…you see this the problem with the youth today

      • 92
        nuff seds head says:

        oh watch it matey,there’s lots of spare holes.

  9. 10
    Down With Brown! says:

    http://www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/magazinemonitor/2010/04/caption_competition_127.shtml

    Obama and Sarkozy react to the news that Gordon Brown’s planning to make a surprise visit to the White House Green Room.

  10. 16
    Bollocks says:

    Why has this been given air time

  11. 23
    Down With Brown! says:

    Another reason to vote Tory:

    Lots of shite “comedians” will leave if we get a Tory government.

    http://www.devilskitchen.me.uk/2010/03/alternative-comedians-to-flee-britain.html

  12. 31
    Whoop Woop... says:

    …that’s the sound of da police.

  13. 33
    Arthur Haynes (Comedian) says:

    What’s the latest on Multimillionaire William Bollinger the NuLab doner? Does he live in Geneva to avoid UK taxes as is now rumoured?

  14. 36
    Blackmarket goldfish dealer says:

    Call the fucking cops.

  15. 38

    O/T a bit but nice to see the Dark Lord getting his backside well and truly stuffed.

    http://whogoeshome.co.uk/?p=600

  16. 42
    Liam's mate says:

    Mr L Byrne is my new best friend, he paid me to tell you so.

  17. 43
    Nixon's Head says:

    Harooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo

  18. 53
    Charlatan Cable exposed on BBC News 24 says:

    Vince Cable is on BBC News 24 but is getting really flustered, stumbling about, and backpedalling because the interviewer is putting him under pressure, for once.

    Cable has been used to getting an easy ride from the media and clearly can’t cope with it when he gets some tougher questioning.

    • 59
      car crash TV says:

      I saw it. As usual Cable thought he could get away with just slagging off the Tories and boasting about his “brilliance” but the guy interviewing wasn’t going to let him get away with that and made him look like a bumbling oaf by pressing him on what he would do about the economy.

      Cable was left looking like a shifty, stuttering old man who didn’t have a clue what he was talking about.

    • 103
      The Sleeper says:

      Seeing St Vince always serves to remind me why I didn’t take up Economics as a career after College.

      The attraction of perpetually blustering about solutions to problems, whilst actually saying nothing, was not enough to convince me of the honesty of such a career.

  19. 58
    The IMF is coming says:

    Latest twatter
    charliewhelan
    Nicky Campbell on plane with me back to Highlands. Very pleased with his interview with Cam exposing the Tory leaders love of fox hunting

    1 Hardworking – friday pm off
    2 Campbell = friend of Labour
    3 Fishing and Shooting distinct from Hunting?

  20. 69
    Gay Gordon of Scotchland says:

    When can I start kissing babies?

  21. 78
    Eggs on Ronnie says:

    I’m a fookin great cook

  22. 79
    Al Megrahi,s Doctor says:

    vince just getting his pants pulled down on sky, again!

    • 130
      jgm2 says:

      Labour must be worried that the LibDems are nicking too many of their votes. Labour could really come unstuck – no wonder they’re using the courts to get the B&P off the ballot paper in time for the election.

  23. 94
    The IMF is coming says:

    Institue of Directors, CBI and Federation of Small Business have just published letter backing signatories to the Telegraph letter

    • 102
      Tory Joiner says:

      I’ll just knock one more nail in this coffin before break.

    • 121
      Fat Bloke on Tour says:

      Who are these muppets that are spouting pish to support Scratchy and Sniffy in their month of need?

      Oh that bastion of British manufacturing and shoddily made clothes, the North Korea of the high street where the great and the good are born into their positions

      Yes you’ve guessed it, Mr Wolfsimon, son and heir to shite hole that is Next.
      I fear hereditary peerages will be back on the agenda.

      Oh and who else do we have, oh the retail midget who has grown rich on the UK housing boom and providing backdrops to Scratchy’s meet the plebs photo ops.

      Consequently what a load of tripe from a group that could cave their companies millions if the tied their pay to their abiities and not what the they can squeeze out of their friends.

      23 signatures

      7 Tories
      7 Tory donors
      9 misguided fools who are even well known in their own house.

      Numpties the lot of them.

  24. 98
    Fair Do's for all says:

    I demand better laughs off Martin Day

  25. 104
    Ann Innis says:

    http://slapometer.com/ Give it a go – displacement activity

  26. 109
    manseman says:

    http://no-pasaran.blogspot.com/2005/06/cut-on-bias.html

    This is interesting on Paul Mason, Newsnight’s ‘Workers Power’ point man. It seems he’s now encouraging industrial militancy. In ‘a personal capacity’ of course.

  27. 112
    Charlie Whelan says:

    There not as paid as much as me

  28. 116
    Old Nick Heavenly(really happy with my non country resident's permit and id card. Yes I am legal!) says:

    HELP HELP

    THE WIFE HAS RUN OFF WITH THE BOY WHO DOES THE LAWN.

  29. 119
    old john says:

    huge steaming piles of shit on gordon brown and his front bench

  30. 137
    pigs says:

    The British police are the biggest criminal gang in Europe.

    Here is the black pig, Delroy Smelly (token black retard in the pigs), violently abusing a young girl, apparently to the delight of loathsome trash bastard slag from the sewer, District Judge Daphne Wickham, who of course managed to find him totally innocent.

    • 138
      Anonymous says:

      Yes. And he’d have been done had it not been for two independent witnesses who… ah, yeah.

      By the way, Pigs, do you hate all black people and all women authority figures? Your mummy been making you tidy your room again? The fiend!

    • 140
      Turdogram says:

      disgusting judgement…an ordinary member of the public hitting someone like that would have been convicted without any doubt whatsoever. the fact that the police are supposed to protect the public not attack them makes it all the more distasteful.


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