15 December - Priti disgusting
The
things I am hearing from family members more closely connected to the Daniel
Morgan Independent Panel than I am are worrying. It is nearly seven years since the Home
Office funded Panel began its investigation into the murder and subsequent
police cover up of a Private Investigator who was on the brink of exposing police corruption.
It has become the biggest Metropolitan Police corruption scandal ever
and a Deputy Commissioner publicly acknowledged that “We recognise that we have
to take responsibility for the consequences of the repeated failure of the MPS
over the years to confront the role played by police corruption in protecting
those responsible for the murder from being brought to justice.”
Jack Straw, David Blunkett, Charles Clarke, John Reid, Jacquie Smith and Alan Johnson
were all Labour Home Secretaries who refused to believe that the Met.
Police is an institutionally corrupt police force and then along came Teresa May
who actually got around to reviewing the evidence and concluding that her
predecessors might very well have been wrong.
Since then the Panel she authorised has had to battle
the
delaying tactics of Commissioner Cressida Dick, who in her own way appears
to have behaved just as badly as most of her predecessors.
And then there was Priti Patel. It is one thing to seek more police officers on
the streets, it is quite a different matter to suggest an honest
attempt to bring to public attention the fact that some police officers have
been murderers and supporters of murder would be best suppressed.