My favourite quote this time . . . from  http://sydenham.org.uk/daniel_morgan.html
This case has cast a shadow over the people responsible for policing our area. The reluctance to openly and transparently review the case only increases suspicion and doubt. With the increasing powers being given to the police it is essential they do all they can to ensure they should be trusted. This is an important issue of confidence for the people of Sydenham as well as justice for the family. (You can make that Croydon as far as I’m concerned).

But it narrowly beat this quote from top of previous page
he never forgave me for saying "The closest he ever came to crime was ordering toilet-rolls for the cell-block at Gateshead East Police Station"

THIS PAGE WAS CONSTRUCTED ENTIRELY FROM A GOOGLE SEARCH . . . CORRUPT MET POLICE

How the Met Police London complaints figures are massaged.
http://www.glalibdems.org.uk/news/311.html “London Assembly Liberal Democrats released figures that show that there has been a 14% increase in the number of complaints lodged against the police in the last year.” .  .  .THIS is what they do.

The revelation came as a parliamentary delegation of six prominent MPs and a long-standing member of the House of Lords demanded action over the conduct of the Anti-Corruption Group - officially known as CIB and dubbed The Untouchables or The Ghost Squad. In a meeting with John Denham, the Home Office Minister with overall responsibility for the police, Lord Graham of Edmonton and MPs from across the political spectrum, including Labour's Andrew Mackinlay and Conservative Henry Bellingham, demanded an immediate independent inquiry.

‘Noble cause corruption’

Paul Condon, head of the Metropolitan Police during most of the 1990s, was protected by both Tory and Labour governments—despite massive scandals, including the Stephen Lawrence affair, that rocked the Yard. It was Condon who coined the phrase “noble cause corruption”. This was the idea that some police justifiably “bend the rules” to get a conviction when officers “knew” the accused was guilty, but had no proof.
Condon was saying that the corruption at the heart of the Met had “noble” intentions. It was a green light for his officers to continue to “fit up” the innocent.

It is hard to believe that such sentiments do not still exist in the MET. . . Great site this . . . OK it’s the Socialist Worker but they do make some excellent points and is a good read.
Stuff like this
A web of corruption is entwined with the racism that infected the investigation into the 1993 murder of Stephen Lawrence. The trail goes back to criminals from south east London connected to the 1983 Brinks Mat gold bullion robbery.
Those involved included Kenny Noye—now in prison for a road rage murder—who was alleged to have corrupt links to police officers. One of Noye’s criminal associates was Clifford Norris. Clifford’s son David Norris was one of the gang of alleged killers of Stephen Lawrence.
Yet David Norris was never convicted. It was known that he was in contact with his father, who the police knew was hiding out in Kent. Why was he not picked up?
During the Macpherson inquiry into Stephen’s murder, the Lawrence’s solicitors battled to make the links between corruption and racism. But they were blocked by the Met police who were desperate to keep separate the question of police corruption in south east London and the Lawrence murder.

But the facts about police corruption in Britain today are being deliberately concealed from the public. The confidential document suggests the Association of Chief Police Officers (ACPO) formulates a strategy for dealing with "adverse publicity". A month after the NCIS meeting, David Blakey, the president of ACPO, formally stated that he and his collegues believed "the true level of corruption in the modern police service is extremely low".

The NCIS minutes state that "common activities" of corrupt officers include theft of property and drugs during searches, planting of drugs or stolen property on individuals, supplying details of operations to subjects, providing tip-offs to criminal associates, and destroying evidence.

I know it’s old news but it’s the same old stuff come round and round again . . . and until those at the top GENUINELY stop acting in the same manner ignoring and protecting bad practice it’s never going to stop at the grass roots.

MPA endorses Met’s Anti Corruption Strategy 63/02 13 June 2002

The MPA has congratulated the Commissioner and the Met’s Anti Corruption Unit following the successful conclusion of Operation Greyhound. Two police officers were sentenced at the Old Bailey on Friday 7 June for their involvement in a plot to assault and kidnap a man.
On the other hand . . . . but you have to ask . . what sort of culture spawns “a plot to assault and kidnap a man” . . . that never occurred to anyone where I used to work. . . . I think I would have remembered it.

The advent of salaried constables and watchmen who were responsible for patrolling the streets means that several characteristics of a modern police force were already present in eighteenth-century London: the streets were regularly patrolled by men whose job it was to prevent crime and arrest suspects. Such men walked regular beats, and some wore uniforms. While they were more experienced than the part-time householders they replaced, because they were low paid and low in status they were not necessarily more respected or more effective. Indeed, there were concerns that they developed too close a relationship with the underworld they were supposed to police, and it was believed that many such officers were corrupt. This was especially true of those officers who became, or were linked to, the practice of thief-taking.
At least there was the excuse they were low paid in those days.

From Associated Newspapers Ltd., 14 July 1999 "Corruption is target for Met's would-be chief" by Lucy Lawrence
Corrupt detectives, judges, lawyers, government ministers and top businessmen are the reason that organised crime still exists, says the leading contender to become the new Commissioner of the Metropolitan Police next year. Peter Ryan, Commissioner of Australia's New South Wales Police, who is in England to be interviewed as a candidate to take over from Sir Paul Condon, believes that rooting out corrupt detectives is the only way to stop the activities of professional crime rings. He told the country's leading police officers today that getting rid of corrupt policemen was dealing only with part of the problem, when some of the leading people in society were also involved. Mr Ryan's commitment to end police corruption will win him favour with supporters of Sir Paul, who retires in January.
I wonder why he didn’t get the job . . . (it’s irony) . . . Imagine that . . .  investigating Corrupt Government Ministers . . . that would go down well.

In 1998 The Home Secretary, Jack Straw, told MPs he is determined to make it easier for the police to tackle corruption within the ranks. He plans to introduce a system of fast-track dismissal, and officers under investigation will not be allowed to retire early on health grounds. In a Commons statement he said the vast majority of officers were doing a difficult and dangerous job, with honesty and integrity. But he added a "corrosive minority of bad officers" must not be allowed to undermine standards.
But 7 years on . . . . and after his successor has to ‘resign’ (twice) for what in fact amounts to corruption . . . . ??????
http://newswww.bbc.net.uk/1/hi/uk/206221.stm
Nearly half of all police forces in England and Wales have officers facing charges of corruption or dishonesty, according to a survey by The Times newspaper. Altogether 105 police officers in 19 out of 43 forces are under investigation. They include high-ranking officers such as superintendents and detective chief inspectors. London's Metropolitan Police has by far the greatest problem with 51 officers suspended. The survey results come days after Home Secretary Jack Straw warned senior officers that a "corrupt few" were damaging the reputation of a majority of honest members of the force.
I wonder if that 51 figure has changed much in the meantime?

GET SHOT OF MET'S TOP COPS

ARMED policemen went on strike in London this week and Home Secretary David Blunkett did not open his mouth. For a man who shoots from the lip and thinks afterwards, this was extraordinary. Members of the elite SO19 squad of the Metropolitan police handed in their permits to carry guns in protest at the suspension of two colleagues who shot dead Harry Stanley, "armed" with a table leg in a bag. An inquest jury ruled that the killing was unlawful.

The gunslingers' shoot-to-rule succeeded. The Met is now reviewing the suspensions and looks like backing down.This is outrageous. Police officers are forbidden by law to take industrial action. These men broke their contracts of employment and labour law. Had it been any other group, they and their union would be in court. (Or baton charged for going on strike like the miner by these same cops) Instead, they are to be rewarded. How can the public ever again trust these gangsterish coppers?

It gets worse. The incoming Commissioner of the Met, Sir Ian Blair, (it would be a namesake, wouldn't it?) is now demanding a change in the law to give armed policemen blanket legal indemnity for shooting anybody they deem a threat. We would all be at risk. I am old enough to remember the near-murder of Stephen Waldorf, an innocent 26-year-old shot several times by police "marksmen" at the wheel of his mini in West London many years ago. It was a miracle that he did not die. Nobody went to prison for that vile deed. The cops never do.

"The BBC has also learned the shooting was not captured on Stockwell Tube's CCTV because police officers had removed the cameras' disks for their investigation into the suicide bomb suspects who boarded the train at the same station the previous day."

How many other CCTV cameras have been disabled , not due to terrorist attacks, but due to police investigation "collateral damage" ? What is so difficult about copying digtial dat to another disk (with apprpriate chain of evidence digital signatures etc.) ? Why are there insufficient spare disks or tapes etc. for this to be accomplished as a standard routine procedure ?
That was the first think that occurred to me when I read that . . . Can you imagine a press photographer not putting in a blank film after he’d taken out a used one? . . . . Nonsense, disks are two a penny . . Is someone going to be investigated for incompetence?

Published: Thursday, November 3, 2005 By Dominic Ponsford
A journalist has been cleared of bribing a policeman after a massive inquiry into police corruption prompted by a story leaked to The Sun two years ago about the comedian Lenny Henry. Freelance reporter John Ross would have faced jail if convicted of paying £200 to detective constable David Dougall for a package of restricted police documents.But he was acquitted by a jury at Inner London Crown Court of "aiding and abetting wilful misconduct in public office".

Ross said his prosecution was originally part of a wider police inquiry, which also involved Sun crime reporter Mike Sullivan and several stories that appeared under his byline.

He said the first of these was a January 2003 Sun story revealing that the police were investigating racist threats issued against Henry. It is understood that Henry was outraged that details of the investigation had been apparently leaked by the police and as a result refused to co-operate further with the inquiry and launched a complaint.

Ross believes the police dropped their investigation against The Sun because: "It would have revealed a lot of conversations between Mike and senior officers and they didn't want to open that can of worms."
This one is pretty much bang up to date . . . . Anti corruption team not doing too well.

The Guardian (UK), "Illegal police sting costs £25m", front-page, 29 July 2003.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk_news/story/0,3604,1007820,00.html
Scotland Yard claimed last night that the future of covert police work was under threat after a court ruling that some of its officers had committed a "state-created crime" during a sting aimed at trapping suspected money launderers. A total of £15m was brought to London hidden in suitcases, laundered by undercover police officers and then returned to alleged drug dealers over a three year period, the court heard.
A prosecution based on the sting was thrown out at Southwark crown court yesterday after a judge described the police actions as "massively illegal”. Judge George Bathurst-Norman allowed 10 defendants to walk free after saying that the police had "overstepped the line between legitimate crime detection and unacceptable crime creation". He added: "They offered a wholly exceptional opportunity to others to commit crime. ...
"I have come to the conclusion that what the police did amounted to state-created crime."
In a statement, Mr Bossino's solicitors, Burton Copeland, called for an inquiry "into how the Metropolitan police thought it fit to conduct an illegal and unauthorised undercover money laundering operation for so many years.
"In this case it has been found that the Metropolitan police, considering themselves to be above the law, have committed serious criminal offences both in the United Kingdom and Gibraltar.
Just when you thought it couldn’t get any worse.  IT’S CALLED ENTRAPMENT
Didn’t they know? . . . Didn’t the Colin Stag case teach them anything?

08.05.05 There are over 60 alleged miscarriage of justice cases listed in the book, Judge for Yourself of which prisoners and former prisoners themselves illustrate six in detail. If you look on the internet you'll easily find hundreds more.

Website addresses containing current alleged miscarriage of justice cases include:

www.mojuk.org.uk www.innocent.org.uk www.mojo.freehosting.net  www.portia.org

And from the same site PAUL BLACKBURN: Conviction quashed after 27 years but Paul Blackburn must still struggle to survive. 2nd June 2005 Paul Blackburn had his conviction quashed by the Court of Appeal on 25th May, following a 27 year long battle with the State which began when he was convicted at the age of 15. . . . . . . by L A Naylor
So how many more has our corrupt system got locked up?

I notice that one daily newspaper, when a comparatively trivial case of police bribery was proved in a London court, stated that the revelation had caused 'profound' public uneasiness. That is nonsense. The majority of the public would not be made uneasy, profoundly or otherwise, if they were convinced that every summonsable irregularity could be met by putting half-a-crown into the hand of the too-observant constable. Why should they? Is it to be supposed that people like the time-wasting annoyance, the publicity, and the higher tariffs of the magistrates' courts?

Their real trouble is that they don't know whether a bribe may be safely offered, or whether the constable may have the Pecksniffian meanness to report the attempt, with disastrous consequences.
Easily the profoundest site I have found . take“Pecksniffian” for instance  . what’s that about?