20 October (Part 1) - Crooked top cops. The dregs
I have said here before
that I believe the Commissioner of the Metropolitan Police to be a thoroughly
dishonest woman. Corrupt is not too strong a word; but that is just my opinion.
A more reliable one might be that of the brother of Daniel Morgan who was
murdered by police and/or their hired hands in 1987. Alastair Morgan, my
daughter’s partner for nearly 30 years, has been studying police corruption for
more than 30 years and has written books and made broadcasts on the subject.
I have heard him say that Cressida Dick and every Met. Commissioner bar one
since 1987 has been attempting to cover up their force’s crime and is now trying
to subvert the Home Office investigation. A Chief Constable of Hampshire should be included in that list too.
Yesterday he put the following statement into the public domain.
Cressida Dick is a person of interest to me, to use police-speak. She and I
have what I would describe as an unfortunate relationship. I won’t bore anyone with a detailed history
but my conclusions are:
1) That she has shown sub-zero willingness to cooperate with
the Daniel
Morgan Independent Panel.
2) She is not a progressive Commissioner of Police in my experience. All of her
actions say that she is doing her utmost to prevent and/or delay public insight
into what I would describe as some very, very perverted and disturbing policing
and its multiple nasty spin-offs.
3) In other words, she is acting like ‘a copper’s copper’ as Lord ‘Swifty’
Stevens (a deeply unpleasant chap, in my view) liked to style himself. When it
comes to the public looking into some of the Yard’s more nasty, dirty closets
where their ‘relationship’ with some of the dirtiest elements of organised crime and the Murdoch press
are involved, and how its leadership has lied to or knowingly misled my family,
MPs, ministers, the public and even parliament I also strongly suspect
high-level perjury at the Leveson Inquiry.
In other words, a highly regrettable state of affairs. I can sympathise with
Ms. Dick insofar as why would any Commissioner of Police of the Metropolis relish
being shown (some of) the absolute dirtiest dregs of the policing on her watch.
It’s just that personal interests and preferences and politicised policing don’t really cut the mustard for
me in these circumstances. So, so far so bad in my opinion.
She won’t succeed, I hasten to add. I’ve become almost totally inured to dealing
with crap from the British police. It’s become ‘normalised’ like so much other
discreditable, nasty stuff in our public life. I now regard this as ‘normal’ police behaviour, sadly.
Alastair Morgan