Governor on The Rock

31st OCTOBER 2019

Dear Lieutenant General and Governor of Gibraltar,

This is most definitely not a trick or treat Halloween prank – quite the opposite is the case.

My name is Isaac, Mark Isaac, and I write further to our brief discussions last Tuesday in Main Street.

One of your fellow dignitaries,  whom I made reference to earlier this week, was I think upon further reflection, none other than Joseph Bossano. Thirty-four years on, and I owe Joseph much gratitude for saving my leg from amputation all that time ago. If memory serves correct, I first met Joseph in St Bernard’s hospital. This was after I had been hit by a scooter, as a pedestrian, while a fragile looking Joseph was himself recovering from a very serious and painful gallstones operation.   Almost by Divine intervention, it was Joseph who kindly arranged for me to get special expert medical treatment in the UK, when all else seemed lost.  I recall well how we jokingly hit it off together in the hospital, even though, at the time of our brief friendship, I had to confess plainly to him, that I had no idea of who he was at that time.

On Tuesday in Main Street, you will doubtless recall that I showed you a printed copy of a detailed report which I recently submitted to the Police Complaints Board, with Commissioner Ian McGrail copied-in.  You very kindly listened to what I had to say, for which I am grateful.  It’s a report I have  over the last few days dispatched to  HMICFRS, the local ombudsman, and the Gibraltar Chronicle. This much I have felt compelled to do so far, owing to what I consider to be very poor decision-making: firstly by the Royal Gibraltar Police; and secondly by the Police Complaints Board of the Gibraltar Police Authority. Prior to meeting you, I had just been discussing my report with candidate solicitors at Charles Gomez and Co. 

My compulsion to act upon seeing you, was driven by the serious nature of the policing issues within it. In short, our impromptu meeting felt like Divine timing. The report in question goes way beyond a mere simple solitary allegation of a wrongful arrest and charge. At stake here are gravely serious issues which cumulatively touch on the following seven subjects:

• The desperate plight of the homeless;
• A dire aspect of a public-facing image of Gibraltar;
• The professional integrity of the Royal Gibraltar Police;
• The mishandling of police informants;
• The integrity of Project Servator, and police relations with the homeless community;
• Low police morale and institutionalized  bullying within the RGP;
• The decision-making and impartiality of the Gibraltar Police Authority;
• Sovereignty and jurisdiction of the entire criminal justice system here in Gibraltar.

Sincerely, I believe it is in the best interests of all people living in Gibraltar for you personally to be sighted on the material first hand, given your unique role as Governor in overseeing the work of the Royal Gibraltar Police. As such, please find my report in hard copy format enclosed.

With the greatest respect, I would encourage you to read carefully my report, and perhaps discuss its far reaching implications with Commissioner Ian McGrail, as the intensification of the police harassment continues unabated.

I feel you need to be alerted to the fact that in certain quarters, ever since I submitted a complaint to the police complaints board, police officers from the Royal Gibraltar Police have significantly intensified their aggressive and hostile operations against me, in what seems to me like a never-ending planned operation to harass me as a targeted individual and drive me out of Gibraltar, and across the border into Spain. All this, they inflict upon someone who is a British citizen in the truest sense of the word, while showing wilful blindness to an alleged police informant who regularly exhibits conduct of a putrid kind right under the bobbies noses.

It is often said that a picture paints a thousand words, so while one of the RGP barbary apes continues to wet his whistle unhindered, here’s three images just for starters, to whet your appetite before hopefully reading my main report.

 

Best wishes

Mark Isaac

Not The Queen’s Land