Just wait until November and see how policing changes


by Septicisle    
5:57 pm - March 5th 2012

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Good to know then that deputy mayor of London Kit Malthouse last year “repeatedly told” the then Met commissioner Sir Paul Stephenson that Operation Weeting, the reinvestigation of phone hacking at the News of the World, was “over-resourced” and being driven by “press hysteria”.

This is a remarkably similar line to the one that the likes of Jeremy Clarkson and Kelvin MacKenzie were pushing prior to the Graun’s Milly Dowler revelation, both of whom are or were employees of News International.

At least we can be reassured that Malthouse is only chair of the Metropolitan Police Authority… oh, that was abolished in January.

The new Mayor’s Office for Policing and Crime now sets “strategic direction and allocates resources” for the Met, in line with the coalition’s wonderful Police Reform and Social Responsibility Act 2011.

Anyone on the outside looking in might have thought that further politicising the police would be a bad idea, considering the recent revelations, but not so our glorious government.

Can’t wait for November, for the Police and Crime Commissioner elections

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1. Julie

As someone who vividly remembers the once famous case of Bernard Robson, for reasons we will not elaborate here, I am wondering at what point our Press stopped flushing out bent coppers and protecting them instead? One time of day our Press were the first place you turned to to get these nasty people bought to justice.

Weeting is the new Operation Countryman and that’s why the Met are sweating!

http://www.romeospy.co.uk/Pages/fall_of_scotland_yard_1.htm

2. Bob B

As Sir Robert Mark, one previous Met Commissioner, so eloquently put it: “A good police force is one that catches more criminals than it employs.” Try this illuminating obituary:
http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk/2010/oct/01/sir-robert-mark-obituary


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