11 February (Part 3) - Cressida goes but why now when Institutional Corruption was acceptable?
I was poking my nose into the 1,250 page Daniel Morgan Independent Panel Report to confirm my recollection of
some of the bad things that Cressida Dick had done when Alastair Morgan himself
popped up on LBC radio and covered pretty much what I had in mind.
Alastair said that he first met Cressida Dick in 2012 following the collapse
of one of the Met’s investigations into his brother’s murder. There was no apology and
Dick merely sat opposite him stony faced and uncaring.
Soon after the DMIP began looking into the corruption - Institutional Corruption
was their considered verdict eight year later - the Panel’s Chairman was shown the door
for colluding with the Metropolitan Police to ensure that the most incriminating
evidence would never see the light of day. The Panel was set up by Home
Secretary Theresa May and she would be very aware of the attempt to pervert the Inquiry.
She had to find a new Chairman.
The officer attempting to bury the truth was Cressida Dick. A year later it was
announced that she would leave the Met for a Civil Service job.
In February 2017, knowing her dubious history with the DMIP Theresa May
brought Dick back again where the new Commissioner resumed her ambition to thwart the DMIP at every
opportunity. The delays cost the taxpayer several millions.
In June 2021 the Panel reported that the Met Police continued to be corrupt and Cressida Dick
was personally responsible for the Panel’s obstruction.
Within minutes of the DMIP report’s publication senior Met officers were on TV
saying that the eight year investigation was totally misconceived and the Met
was not corrupt; which sort of confirmed that they are.
Within days, Sadiq Khan, Priti Patel and Boris Johnson all backed Dick to the
hilt and she herself said the suggestion of corruption was “offensive”.
Khan extended Dick’s contract by two years but something odd happened over the
past few days, Khan went from being a dedicated supporter to sacking her.
Covering up a murder in which police officers are implicated is perfectly OK by
him but ill-considered sexist “banter” in the police canteen is not. The
Mayor seems to have standards after all; just not ones that anyone can fully understand.
The situation is hopeless; while writing the foregoing a succession of police
apologists have been on the radio to say how wonderful the woman was and she
should remain in post. The police really are Institutionally Corrupt on many levels.