Ah, but the Met Police Federation does not operate on that intellectual level. And so it came to pass, as the BBC has reported, that “The Met Police Federation has declared it has ‘no faith’ in Sadiq Khan after the ‘very public ousting’ of Dame Cressida Dick as commissioner … Chairman Ken Marsh warned that the atmosphere among Met Police officers was at ‘rock bottom’”. Chairman Ken Marsh self awareness failure there.
He added that Khan’s remarks had “undermined the professional, dedicated and incredibly difficult work of tens of thousands of hard-working and brave police officers from across the capital … We have let the mayor's office know in no uncertain terms how our brave and diligent colleagues deserve better … Officers in London feel saddened and angry that the commissioner, Cressida Dick, has been pushed out in the way she has”.
Getting out a king-sized onion, he went on “She was reforming. She was changing. The culture is changing … We are deeply disappointed with the actions of the mayor”. And to that I call bullshit. Moreover, I couldn’t give a rat’s arse about his disappointment.
On a personal level, Cressida Dick has messed up big time, starting with approving the murder of Jean Charles de Menezes - a totally innocent man - and going on by obstructing the Daniel Morgan Panel Inquiry, then overseeing a heavy handed response to those holding a vigil for Sarah Everard - murdered by one of her own officers - while doing not unadjacent to bugger all about systematic lawbreaking in and around Downing Street.
The culture unearthed at the Met’s Charing Cross Police Station, where “Officers were found to have joked about rape and exchanged offensive social media messages, leading to the Independent Office for Police Conduct (IOPC) to make 15 recommendations … the IOPC said: ‘We believe these incidents are not isolated’”, was inexcusable.
Worse, it has been obvious for some time that the Met is institutionally deficient in a whole host of areas. But there can be no change unless and until there is an admission that the force has a problem. Carping about the Mayor is not a move in the right direction. Nor is it in the interests of Marsh’s “brave and diligent colleagues”. He needs to listen to the public. You know, his CUSTOMERS.
We The People pay for the Police. And We The People demand better. Deal with it.
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Marsh merely demonstrates just how deep-rooted is Met Police moral corruption.
During the Miners' Strike, when Plod was bussed in from all over, the Met officers on the picket lines soon became known as “Bananas”. Not much has changed, I see.
As a former officer in Greater Manchester Police, let me in on the worst kept secret in policing, it's full of bent coppers, the senior management are bent not just the Met.
Anyone who wants to serve the community or is honest and decent, soon finds their careers cut short or promotion witheld.
I have known officers perjure themselves under oath, gain commendations from senior judges whilst innocent people are sent to jail this was across all police services.
The system of targets set by the Home Secretary with funding dependent on reaching targets encourages corruption and the Police Federation knows all too well.
They and their members gloated at the miners when they became Maggie's favourite boot boys and girls. Now they've been rumbled as such, they don't like it..
For the corrupt combination of Establishment and police....look at the Hillsborough disaster and its continuing perversion of justice. It riddles police, judiciary and politics. All those involved in it are utterly rotten to the core.
Just one example: disgusting Jack Straw (who also let mass murderer Pinochet off the hook) actually appointed Bettison - up to his neck in Hillsborough police lies - as chief of Merseyside Police. As organised evil as it gets.
And now the Grenfell families are being subjected to the same horror.
And these are only two examples. There are many, many others.
The fact is Britain is now institutionally corrupt from top to bottom. All of it overlaid with a blanket of poisonous hypocrisy, wilful ignorance and self-delusion.... delivered by equally corrupt print and broadcast media.
Sooner or later history will deliver a painful antidote. The only question is what form it will take. Meanwhile, good honest people in public service are cowed into silence. That is the kind of nation we have become.
I gather that disgraced former International Development Secretary Piggi Patel is threatening to remove the power of hiring and firing the Met Commissioner from the Mayor of London, which is an interesting move given that the Mayor of London doesn’t have that power in the first place. Whether this is just another example of the unparalleled stupidity of disgraced former International Development Secretary Piggi Patel or part of a wider “Kick the Labour Party” strategy is another question entirely.
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