Block on cash to Hackney
Socialist Organiser1983 1983-03-03Read it in the scan (PDF), scan page 15 →
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THE campaign against police racism in Hackney is continuing in the wake of the death of Colin Roach, found shot dead outside Stoke Newington police station on January 12. Sunday Hackney Labour councillor Brynley Heaven told us: •The council has decided as a matter of intention to withhold the police precept (the money the council has Islington. Next meeting Sunday March 13, 3pm at Thornhill Neighbourhood Project, Orkney House, Caledonian Rd/Copenhagen St: 'The coming struggles in Zimbabwe'. For childcare phone Nik, 278 1341.
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'This was the result of pressure on us from pracfically every local group except the Chamber of Commerce - from Hackney Community Action, the CRE, the Black People's Alliance, the Trades Council, the Labour Parties.
"It is an expression ol dissatisfaction at the state of policing in Hackney and the refusal of the Home Office to call an inquiry into the death of Colin Roach and policing in Hackney. We have passed a vote of no confidence in the Stoke Newington police.
'The decision to withhold the police precept is to be integrated into the budget-making process. Our legal advice is likely to be that paying over the police precept is an obligation, so Sir Kenneth Newman or someone on his behalf may tben go to the courts to force us to pay up.
'We're also establishing a police monitoring unit at the Town Hall, and in April there will be a borough consultation, with public meetings, on the Greater London Council's police accountability proposals"
* Demonstration: For an Independent Public Inquiry'. Saturday March 12, 1pm from Hackney Town Hall, Mare Street.