Kent Police has been branded "un-British" after arresting a pensioner in a non-crime hate incident, entering the man's home and examining his belongings.
Retired special constable Julian Foulkes was arrested and detained over a social media post, warning about the threat of anti-Semitism in Britain.
After the arrest, officers examined the 71-year-old's collection of books by authors like Douglas Murray, along with copies of the The Spectator, referring to them as containing "very Brexit things".
The incident took place in November 2023, just after the October 7th attack in Israel. Kent Police has since admitted the caution was a "mistake" and deleted it from the accused's record.
Harry Miller has hit out at Kent Police after raiding pensioner's home in non-crime hate incident
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Expressing his disgust at the incident, former Police Officer and founder of Fair Cop Harry Miller compared the raid to "burglary".
Miller told GB News: "The police simply take no notice. We've had ruling after ruling, guidance after guidance. We've had home secretaries repeatedly telling the police to get back in line and they simply don't do it.
"When I watched the video of the police entering that house, all that was missing was ski masks and the breaking of a window as they access through a window. By any other measure, this was burglary."
Criticising the operation carried out by the officers, Miller claimed that the police should "not have been in the house" or "examining his wife's shopping list".
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Bodycam footage showed police raid Foulkes's home, where the examined booked and went through his cupboards and draws
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Miller said: "The police wouldn't should not have been in the house, they shouldn't have been going through the person's drawers, and they shouldn't have been looking at his wife's shopping list. They shouldn't have been checking on his books - all of this is absolutely un-British, and it's also entirely unlawful."
Issuing a stark warning for non-crime hate incidents, Miller cautioned that as a result of such operations by police, someone may "take their own life" as a result.
He told GB News: "I very much fear that somebody, as a result of one of these unlawful police bullying actions, I believe that somebody's going to take their life. I believe that somebody's going to have a mental breakdown because this is simply not funny.
"The police seem to think that they can do it without any form of comeback at all. What they've said after this is we're sorry, we'll treat it as a learning experience - well, they don't learn, they don't treat it as a learning experience, they've never done so. They simply, stubbornly refuse to change their ways."
Miller told GB News that 'no one knows how to stop' the police becoming the 'bookshelf police' over such incidents
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In a pointed attack on Britain's police forces, Miller concluded that officers have become the "thought police" and "bookshelf police" as a result of non-crime hate incidents.
He stated: "They've become the thought police, they've become the bookshelf police. It can only be a matter of time before we find ourselves with a house that is surrounded. And through that loud hailer comes the words 'throw out your Douglas Murray books and then step out with your hands up'.
"It can only be a matter of time, because this is the way that policing is going, and it's been going this way for a long time, and nobody seems to know where the handbrake is. Nobody seems to know how to stop it."
A Kent Police spokesman told The Telegraph that the force had "concluded that the caution against Mr Foulkes was not appropriate in the circumstances and should not have been issued".
The spokesman added that a further review would be carried out "to identify any learning opportunities".
Responding to the incident, a Home Office spokesman said: "This incident occurred under the previous Government. The Home Secretary has made clear that she believes all police forces should be focused on the central priorities of the Government's Safer Streets Mission."
