Gregory John O'Flaherty

Know Your Rights

I have had issues over the years over mental health and the Police. My neck was broken by the Police on 28th October 1998. They have no record of the instance, but the record are on my health file, and now in many hands, for safe keeping.
I have bad days. I had three vertabre fused in my neck ( refer ” A Picture Of Paranoid Scizophrenia” ) Yesterday was a bad day re physical pain, so I rang the police station where the officer who broke my neck worked and left a message on the answering machine, simply call a C… a C… . I later phoned the Victorian Police Commissioners’ office to inform them I had left a message.
To-day I helped a friend move a friend. When I got home there was a card from a Police officer at my door. He had left the district he was in and driven the 40 miles to Maryborough to see me. I phoned his station, the one I had phoned yesterday but my call was diverted to Ballarat, the area head. They were surprised, because there was no car on duty at Avoca. Obviously because he had come out of the area to see me. I phoned the Commissioners Offise again ( 03 92476890 ).
If a person has come to the attention of the law and has a known psychiatric condition, it is against the law for a Police Officer to approach them without a Lisenced Public Advocate from the Public Advocates Department, whose official identification must be shown. It is not a photocopied piece of paper, and bares the Crown seal. Anyone trying to pass themselves off as a Public Advocate and is not will go to jail.

You do not have to let a Police Officer in your house unless theyhave a warrent. They still have to bring aPublic Advocate as an Independanet Third Party. They can not approach you unless you are commiting a crime.

I have no criminal record.

  • earthairfire

    earthairfire, 3 months ago

    I’m intrigued, and confused. I don’t know if this is fiction or real life, and it makes me uneasy. If it’s fiction, congratulations on making it feel real. I’m guessing it’s fiction due to the date, but maybe that was a typo… Either way – it made me stop, think, feel, and made me feel compelled to write a response, even if I’m not entirely sure what it is that I want to say…

    Tim

  • Gregory John O'Flaherty

    Gregory John O... in reply to earthairfire’s comment, 3 months ago

    Thanks eartairfire. It was a typo. Thanks for pointing it out. It should have read 1998. I fixed it. It is all real…...

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