I sincerely apologise for any offence my post may have caused you ElderlyWilliam , you're obviously a very decent bloke. Which makes it all the more of a tragedy that a significant number of your colleagues at the time conspired during the Miners Strike, Hillsborough and beyond to bring the...
South Yorkshire police patently had a Get Out Of Jail card bestowed on them by Thatcher as a reward for their actions against 'The Enemy Within' five years earlier.
From Wikipedia...
"In 1991, the South Yorkshire Police paid compensation of £425,000 to thirty-nine miners who were arrested...