Is the Metropolitan Police institutionally corrupt?

Excellent 10 min video by David Allen Green on the FT site today examining the charge of institutional corruption made in the Daniel Morgan report.

https://www.ft.com/video/83bbc06b-ac21-4400-a2f8-7918d565c1c0 (no paywall)

 

Yes.

 

Should this be made a poll, nem con.

 

Very good, well worth watching. Begs the question that if the Met is institutionally corrupt, how can a fair trial take place?.

 

That's certainly the view of the report. The video makes two important points. Firstly that the report doesn't simply make the accusation of corruption, it demonstrates it, and secondly that it uses the present tense i.e. this isn't about 'the bad old days', the Met continues to be institutionally corrupt (in the view of the report).

 

Surely the task now is how to fix the problem? If the Met don't/can't agree the findings, how do they move forward and out of this institutional corruption? Doesn't that become the Home Sec's problem?

 

Institutional corruption suits Patel and many others in our govt.

 

Always has, always will. Masons and the like...

 

Start by sacking Cressida Dick.

 

Is she a freemason?

 

It's not really fixable because it's not really an aberration - the Metropolitan Police are just the regular police, to the max.

Ken Fero's Ultraviolence goes on general release tomorrow I believe. Sure to be a difficult watch.

https://www.theguardian.com/film/20...p-doc-on-deaths-in-uk-police-custody-ken-fero

 

Yes, that's a start. But it's just a start. How do you progress from there? It's a big organisation. Sack the deputy commissioner and the assistant commissioners? Go further down the ranks? Then what? Get a whole new team from outside of policing to run it? Practically speaking , I don't suppose a commissioner can fix it on his/her own - it's just too big, too many managers.

If it's institutionally corrupt, sounds to me like the very concept of policing needs professionalising. I think that's something several governments have wrestled with.

 

All police forces are.

 

It is not unique to the Met

 

This ^

 

As a member of the West Yorkshire police said to me, "ah, the Met, the finest police money can buy."​

 

Do you know anything about freemasonry, or do you speak from a position of ignorant prejudice?

 

Indeed. The report is equally damning of the Hampshire Constabulary and the Police Complaints Commission.

 

I know they raise a lot of money for charity. Wasn't Jimmy Sa-vile one?

https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news...e-peering-into-the-world-of-modern-freemasons

 

No, he wasn't. He was a member of the Roman Catholic Order of Malta, a very anti-Masonic bunch. Had he been a Mason, in the days before he was exposed we'd have shouted it from the rooftops.