South Wales Police — Forensic Assessment

Email dialogue evidence: every email exchanged with South Wales Police about Great House Farm is catalogued word for word, by thread and date, at South Wales Police — Email Correspondence Catalogue (continued in Part 2 and Part 3).

Chronology and catalogue links — assessed 10-10-2026: Use the Institutional Involvement Roadmap (1877–2026) for the date-ordered institution/people/evidence sequence. The reported 1988 Cadw-to-Minister spot-listing letter has its own catalogue placeholder at GHF-E152; the original has not been attached to that page as at 10-10-2026. A placeholder records an evidence gap; it does not establish the letter’s contents or misconduct.

Forensic Assessment — South Wales Police

Scope: policing records connected with the eviction/demolition episode and later reporting; not civil title adjudication.

Current evidence

The project has a confirmed negative FOI outcome under reference 719/26. That is a search result, not proof that no historic operational record ever existed. ^{🕒10-10-2026}

Forensic control test

Identify the specific incident, operational record class, command/force area, retention rule and any transferred or destroyed records. Separate police operational decisions from the civil court authority under which possession was enforced.

Current finding

As at 10-10-2026, the material reviewed does not establish policing misconduct. This is not a finding that the historic police role or every operational act has been established or excluded. The current work concerns historical-record recovery and the evidential status of reports/footage about the 1988 episode.

Human action

Seek the search methodology and retention/disposal explanation behind FOI 719/26, and cross-check any surviving court warrant, press footage or contemporaneous account before alleging operational excess.

Acceptance: a defensible police-record search/retention trail and any relevant incident references are logged.

Cross-institution records route: the NPCC’s September–October 2026 correspondence searched accessible national/ACPO holdings and referred the requester toward individual police forces; it does not substitute for this force’s local operational records search. Compare the NPCC forensic assessment, especially GHF-E106-R49 and GHF-E106-R51, with South Wales Police’s own FOI 719/26 record (R38) and the linked press evidence below. A national nil return and a local nil return are separate searches.

South Wales Police — chronological evidence map

This map separates the date of the event from the date/type of the source. Newspaper reports are evidence of what was reported, not automatic proof of every reported detail; testimony of named family members is labelled separately and linked to their Testimony pages. Select each source title to open the evidence page.

Unresolved boundary: the current published material still lacks the local force’s underlying 1988 operational, incident, custody and deployment records. The late-November possession and demolition reports should not be used to infer police attendance unless a specific source identifies the officers or force. The national NPCC search is a separate records route; compare the NPCC forensic assessment. ^{🕒10-10-2026}

Records-access register appearances — direct row links

Rows below match the institution’s name or an alias in the reply register’s sender/reference or recorded description. A match shows an appearance in the records trail, not necessarily an act by this institution.

Related navigation: FOI & Public-Authority Reply Register · Records Access Chronology · Evidence Library