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News and Comment December 2019

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15 December - Priti disgusting

Priti PatelThe 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.

 

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