Suing the police for not prosecuting? How does this work?

[stevensfo]

Interesting piece of news:

Met Police threatened with legal action over refusal to investigate 'cash for honours' scandal.
SNP Commons leader Pete Wishart wrote to the Met Police, calling for it to launch an investigation into Boris Johnson as well as previous Tory prime ministers and Conservative party officials but the force later said it did not have sufficient grounds to launch a probe.

Wishart and the Good Law Project, which has brought several civil cases against the Conservative government, have now written to the Met Police threatening judicial review if they do not explain why they refused to investigate.

https://uk.news.yahoo.com/cash-for-hono ... 43602.html

Not sure how easy this would be in practice. So, if our local police don't bother to take action over a burglary, the houseowners can sue them?

Steve

[pje16]

Sound like Wishart was trying to score cheap points
I always think don't slag off the police, remember they do job most of us wouldn't want to do, and are the first people you call when YOU have a problem

[stevensfo]

Sound like Wishart was trying to score cheap points
I always think don't slag off the police, remember they do job most of us wouldn't want to do, and are the first people you call when YOU have a problem

Hi, I completely agree with you and was brought up among relatives who were police officers, so I have a lot of respect for what they do. However, I was more interested here in how on earth this works, and how someone can sue the police for not prosecuting.

The issue of cash for peerages is of secondary importance. Being an introvert, I think that, like Mr Trotter in 'Jeeves and the Feudal Spirit', I would probably pay NOT to be given a peerage!

Steve

[swill453]

Sound like Wishart was trying to score cheap points
I always think don't slag off the police, remember they do job most of us wouldn't want to do, and are the first people you call when YOU have a problem

The (Met) Police is a big organisation. Whoever made the decision not to investigate this "cash for honours" issue will be very far removed from the ones you'd call on if you had a problem.

Scott.

[UncleEbenezer]

The quoted extract doesn't suggest anyone might be suing the police. Nor that the reason for judicial review would be failure to prosecute.

[pje16]

please see the OP
If the above post is about my quote,
I don't to quote if replying to the post immediately above (especially images)
Overquoting tends to make posts tedious and hard to read (IMHO)