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July 2024. Update.
Chief Inspector Alex Langley
North Yorkshire Police
24th July 2024
Dear Chief Inspector Langley
Re: Complaint Ref. PC/216/22
Thank you for your letter dated 15th July 2024, I appreciate your response and I am truly impressed by the courteous manner and empathy of its contents. This is the first time in 27 long years that I have been treated with dignity and respect by the Professional Standards
Department ☺.
In the past, any concerns raised or complaints made were immediately reported back to the AMHP at the BDCFT (Bradford District Care and Foundation Trust) and were taken as symptomatic of my supposed ‘illness’. Sad but true. I always got sectioned for it eventually as the whole ‘concern raising’ sequence was initiated and implemented immediately.
I have just received my Diploma in EFT (Emotional Freedom Technique – energy psychology) and this is helping me find/take different approaches to insurmountable problems. In the past I have had extreme adverse experiences caused by officers of NY police.
Having just read the RCRP (Right Care, Right Person) approach it has given me hope, together with your phone call as well as your letter, that there may be a way forward to prevent adverse events happening in future.
I am an Austrian national, have an Austrian passport, do have settled status in the UK since 2019 as an EU Citizen, and I am divorced. I am self-employed and work from home as a Holistic Therapist. My home is my sanctuary and it is also a sanctuary for my clients.
I have done extensive trauma work on incidents from the last 27 years now as part of my course work in EFT (energy psychology) and I want to avoid a repetition of any such adverse experiences in the future. I suffer from severe multiple complex PTSD with having been at times, dissociated. I never got any help for that. It was never accepted and recorded that these adverse experiences actually existed and indeed took place due to NHS policies on recording matters. They not record third party presences and actions. They did thus, literally, not happen according to NHS clinical notes.
If I try and talk about any of my adverse experiences within a healthcare setting or during a visit from mental health services, it is immediately labelled as a deterioration of mental state and instigates an almost immediate recall into a secure unit.
Tragic but true. I have now studied the working procedures within the NHS and thanks to your kind help during our conversation from 15th July, also have insight into the workings of police procedures around execution of S135 warrants. This was extremely helpful and educational and has given me much food for thought.
I have studied human rights law, mental health law since 1998 and have now come across the RCRP guidelines from the College of Policing. Which makes very interesting reading indeed.
Having had 2 police officers as private clients as a Holistic Therapist over the years, I totally understand the difficulties your officers face when attending any scenario under the Mental Health Act. Lack of knowledge and training and the possibility/potential of walking into a really volatile potentially dangerous situation can make officers act upon personal decisions which do not comply overall with prescribed working procedures and professional standards at times.
I am stating that from personal experience. As you so correctly state in your letter: it is an exceedingly difficult situation to navigate for officers when I am going (or have been going) through a complex and difficult time and they are attending my premises on behalf of another support agency.
According to RCRP any concern for welfare or safeguarding, has to take into account the European Convention on Human Rights. This is pivotal. Since I first got sectioned in 1998 for example I have not had a single human right. Living alone at my premises makes me an easy target, I have always been at the mercy of people making phone calls about me, because they lead to an immediate sectioning or CTO recall. For example, a neighbour across, Mrs Jane Holmes, stood in the street, on the pavement opposite and bluntly said: I can have you put away with one phone call, ha ha and laughed herself silly. Now this sort of thing I can do nothing about, if I try and tell mental health services this, it’s immediately a ‘deterioration’ and ‘evidence’ of being paranoid and delusional for example. Not a good place to be in. I have never had anywhere to turn to for help.
But that is just the tip of the iceberg. The sequence of events initiated when such a malicious phone call is received is horrific. The police and the mental health team come out in force and I have to immediately go back into a prison unit, will be subjected to much violence and brutality and jabbed senseless under violent restraints. Deprived of my liberty for months. Potentially even taken away by force, having my home invaded and being subject to forced removals etc.
At no stage am I spoken to! Nobody ever checks anything out, asks me what really happened, clarifies the situation. It’s always: concerns raised, alert buttons pressed, immediate hospitalisation. A pattern for 27 long horrific years. This needs to stop. I never had any safeguards as my family are Austrian and live there and the Mental Health Act declared them dead in 1998 and they never had any rights either. Sad but true.
For example, on 5th of August 2007, my music centre/stereo suddenly had smoke coming out of the back of it. Fortunately I spotted it, quickly unplugged it and immediately took it outside and placed it on the pavement outside my house against the wall to be safe. I only recently had a toaster burst into flames and managed to get that outside too.. A normal act of being safe thus.
What happened? Soon after the police and the mental health team were at the door. Forcing entry by pushing their way in and also storming in through the back door simultaneously Grabbing me, pushing my arms up on my back, forcing me out of my home, marching me down the street to where their van was parked. Ordering me to crawl inside.
I stated very clearly and firmly: I am a human being, I have done nothing wrong, I am not a criminal, I demand patient transport. And refused to crawl into the prison van. One of the officers then started to kick me violently several times until my legs gave way and they threw me into the back of their prison van.
Horrific, absolutely horrific. I was subsequently accused of: she had thrown all her property into the street. I had done no such thing. This has been going on for 27 years. Never ever spoken to. Nobody ever even asking the most basic of questions and ascertaining facts. Never.
I have worked extensively on my severe multiple complex PTSD and one thing is for sure, – one of my main trauma triggers is a police officer and a police van, because of above stated incident and many others before and after.
Reading carefully the RCRP guidelines and considering all your verbal and written communications so far, I thus take the brave, courageous and daring step to write to you with this in the hope that such events will not happen in future and that something can be learned from the above stated incident from 5th of August for example. On this occasion I was badly hurt, the officers stated that they were handed a S135 warrant, which in fact, the court had not issued, clearly there wasn’t one. Yet they stated that they had entered the premises and removed me according to the warrant. I did not make this up, nor is it the figment of imagination of a sick mind.
We have a forced entry and a forced removal, which actually, had not been sanctioned by the court at all. This is uncomfortable, very uncomfortable and it is so much easier just to write me off as being paranoid and delusional. That solves all problems. The injuries sustained? Simple. Its self-harm and evidence of it.
Nope. Sorry. Not with me, not any longer. In October 2009 for example on World Mental Health Day, I staged a peaceful human rights protest at my house, displaying some posters I had made of my horrific mistreatment by the NHS and displaying enclosed photos of bruises. What happened? Immediate S135 and three months in prison, daily forced injections with much and extremely violent restraint. Ultimate punishment resulting in being put on a CTO with forced depot injections. All as a result of staging a simple, peaceful human rights protest in my own home. And I am still on the CTO and forced depots. If I refuse to be jabbed, they immediately threaten me with the police and further forced removals and incarcerations. Always triggering my trauma, over and over. Threats, intimidation, coercion and barbaric mistreatment, deprivation of liberty and lengthy incarcerations. I have lost years of my life because of this defunct system.
Imprisoned for walking barefoot around my house and garden (!), removed from my home with the help of the police for it. Imprisoned for being too elated after obtaining my Diploma in Holistics and winning the student of the year award in 2003 – my photo was in the Keighley news receiving the award. But I was removed by force from my home and taken by the police onto the prison ward. Where I got forced injections for being deluded and grandiose because I dared to state that I was a Holistic Therapist working in private health care. They are still at it with that one after 20 years! The police also turned up, and I got sectioned for – wait for this – having the door open into my garden on a nice summers day and singing along to the radio. Yep. True. Police, mental ward, forced jabs.
This is a clash, a real clash between the allopathic psychiatric medical model and complementary alternative medicine. That has been going on since 1998. Right from the start.
So, I wanted to share that with you and perhaps there can be some learning from my case for the future.
All I am asking for, taking on board what you said and what the RCRP guidelines state in summary thus is:
Please, if any of your officers are asked to attend my premises in order to support other agencies, or for any other reason, please do one simple thing – be friendly, be polite, show some manners, introduce yourself. Give me your name, rank, police station and state the reason why you are there. Then there will be no volatile situation created for starters.
This has never happened in the past. Its always: we are the police, we are coming in.
The sight of a police officer triggers my PTSD. If there is a normal human interaction, this will not happen.
I am very assertive, stand up for my rights, verbally challenge those attending my premises, demand to be shown ID and get people to introduce themselves if they want and demand entry. This is clearly totally logical behaviour. But, given my foreign nationality, my German accent, which gets stronger when under duress, this is immediately labelled as: hostile, aggressive. Recorded as challenging behaviour. Is it really? I don’t think so.
How would anyone feel if they all turn up out of the blue and try and force their way into your home, not introduce themselves, don’t display the most basic of manners? These people are so rude, it is beyond belief.
Also, if your officers close in on me and get into my personal space, I automatically put my hands up and state: please get out of my space. This of course, goes down as ‘an assault’ on them. How very sad.
Also, you have several S136’s on our records. This is incorrect. They always came in, entered my premises and forced me out and put me into police vans/ police cars. I even had a witness who was prepared to go to court for me and evidence that a police car had pulled up outside my premises, that the officers jumped out of their car, one ran around the back, they radioed each other and simultaneously stormed in – front and back door, and brought me out and put me in the back of a prison van and then re-entered my premises, remained for some time and then drove off with me. That witness saw the subsequent police report after I complained and simply stated: they are lying. They went inside and brought you out.
This happened over and over again. Sad story. But that is in the past. There is a new professional standards department who clearly has professional standards.
Clearly, as I stated in my previous email to Ms Docherty from Professional Standards Department on 17th July 2004, a smashed in door is not a S136. So please bear in mind my precarious position.
My home is my private safe place, my sanctuary, and because of the nature of my professional activities, it is also a sanctuary for my private clients. I am trusted by them, they need to feel safe when they come for therapy. The smashed in door has virtually ruined my business as my house was boarded up for four weeks and clients came for their appointments and saw it. They were very frightened, and still are. They no longer feel safe, and to be honest, nor have I since that day. But there is only one way to achieve the peace, tranquillity and safe environment that I need for myself and my clients – by taking this approach. Incidentally, please note that upon admission into a prison unit my mobile, should I even have it with me that is, is immediately confiscated. I can never cancel client appointments. Also, for the last 27 years I was always dragged away from home in the clothes I stood up in, never allowed to take anything with me. Sometimes even dragged away without a handbag or my mobile even. I was always dumped on a prison ward and left with no belongings, usually at least 3 weeks at a time.
Please therefore, treat me and my home with dignity and respect. It is the most ridiculous allegation that I am unable to care for myself, plenty of my friends vouched for that over the years, and it is always on record that my home is always immaculate, that the fridge is always full of healthy food and that I am well presented at all times. So where does that leave welfare concerns? There aren’t any, there never were. It’s all about the nature of ‘concern raising and escalation of it’. Complaining and letter/email writing is a suspicious activity. Well it would be, given what I have been dealing with.
But, I am taking a brave new approach to all of these sheer insurmountable difficulties. Because I will not experience any more complex and difficult times if people, such as officers from NY police, behave in a professional and courteous manner.
Its about openness, education and raising awareness as to real life circumstances and real life experiences.
Thank you for your time reading this!
Please look me up online, my website is under construction, there will be more added to it for educational and self-help purposes. There are also two articles from the Telegraph & Argus from ’98 and ’99. (I will link them for ease of reference regards my human rights activities).
I am enclosing 3 items – photos of incident from 5th August 2007, subsequent extract from police report following my complaint, as well as letter from Magistrates court confirming that no warrant had been issued. Of course I complained about that too, but the response was: the officers had remembered incorrectly. Fair enough comment, but why had they then entered my premises and removed me by force in the first place? And why is a police officer allowed to kick someone in order to get them into the back of a prison van if the person is logical, sensible, stating their human rights and politely asking for patient transport or to sit in the back of a car instead?
I have studied this in depth and have gained much insight and understanding – I have been dealing with rigid, negatively reinforced closed systems that act inherently and by default defensively. I was hitting a brick wall, constantly. However, there have been real shifts recently and you ringing me and writing to me has clearly evidenced that.
This is not about complaining, wanting anyone ‘to do anything about it’ kind of thing, nope, it’s purely intended for awareness raising and as you state in your letter: taken as an area of learning to be explored and for improvements to be identified. Also one officer once stated to me over the phone: this is a historic case.
Yours sincerely
Susanne Kellner-Johnson
Holistic Therapist
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