3 August - Whitewash by the bucketload
If you have been with BiB for a year or more you will know that it has
tried
to bring you news of the infamous Daniel Morgan murder, the involvement of
Metropolitan Police officers in that murder and their failure to properly
investigate it. This is because Daniel and I would have had family
connections had he lived beyond 1987.
Persistent wrong doing ultimately led to the Metropolitan Police being
officially labelled Institutionally Corrupt in 2021 by the Home Office sponsored
Daniel Morgan Independent Panel and former Commissioner Cressida Dick being
personally criticised for obstructing the Panel from its beginnings in 2013 right through to early 2021.
The Metropolitan Police rejected the 1,200 page DMIP report within minutes of its
publication and in doing so demonstrated that it is indeed Institutionally Corrupt.
Today the Independent Office for Police Conduct (IOPC) issued
its one page
report into the Met’s many failures. It reveals that no one in the Met or the
Hampshire force - similarly labelled corrupt - has been sanctioned and all
pensions are intact. It totally fails to mention that the IPOC’s predecessor,
the Independent Police Complaints Commission, was also implicated in the
corruption by accepting a very obviously corrupt report by the Hampshire force.
The IOPC accepts that Commissioner Dick breached professional standards without
mentioning the collusion with the first Chairman of the DMIP which was designed to subvert
it. The Home Office was so appalled by it that there were dismissals - but the
IOPC deems corruption of that magnitude does not warrant disciplinary action.
Proof positive I would suggest that there is corruption at every level of British policing.
Daniel’s brother Alastair has made
a brief statement on the IPOC’s verdict. 35 years of dogged determination to
expose non-stop corruption brushed under the carpet.
Sky News report. (Dick denies everything.)
Daily Mail report. (“There is no evidence that she intended to protect corrupt officers.” So why was evidence suppressed?)
Evening Standard report. (Requires registration so you may not wish to bother.)