3 April (Part 2) - Useless cops. Corrupt cops. Murderous cops
With Bexley Council appearing to be a lot less Bonkers than it once was, it is possible that the emphasis here will
shift inexorably to that bastion of incompetence, dishonesty and corruption, the British police force.
The Times newspaper carried an article yesterday about how the police do not
usually investigate fraud. It is estimated that a third of all crimes are fraud
but the police look for easier pickings, like naughty words on the internet. A
Bexley resident was prosecuted for using the C word on Twitter (conviction
overturned on appeal) and the internet is
still offered as an excuse locally for
not always investigating more traditional crimes.
Action Fraud ditches most of the reports it receives but passes the most blatant fraud cases to the police who ignore more than 95% of them.
Fraud is a problem everywhere and I was horrified when a friend in Welling nearly fell for a scam
identical to the one reported below. He was saved only when about to hand over
his cash in a Welling bank and the ‘police officer’ was not
prepared to provide him with a properly documented receipt.
I had a long chat with my daughter’s partner Alastair Morgan today, his brother was
murdered with police involvement in 1987 for attempting to shop them for their burglaries, fit ups and drug running.
I can’t tell you in any detail what he said for obvious reasons but let’s just
say he has absolutely positive evidence that the Met. Police is corrupt, County
Forces are corrupt, all the predecessors of the Independent Office for Police
Conduct have been thoroughly corrupt and the police are happy to pursue and even
murder their colleagues who show signs of rocking their boat. Even the current
Commissioner got a dishonourable mention.
Alastair remains hopeful that everything he and the Home Office have discovered about his brother’s murder and the ensuing cover up
will be released into the public domain within the next twelve months.