The Guardian reports the Serious and Organised Crime Agency is investigating the scale of corruption within the police. The day before, the Independent reported comments by Nick Hardwick, Chairman of the IPCC:
To say [police corruption] has gone away would be a very bad mistake. There are no forces that are free of corruption [...]
A glance of the cases in just the past 7 days bears this out:
- Monday 8th February 2010:
Ali Dizaei sentenced to four years for assualting a man and trying to frame him for assault. - Friday 12th February 2010:
PC Mark Bohannan passed on information to his wife’s drug dealer in exchange for free cocaine. This information allowed the dealer to escape undetected. - Monday 15th February 2010:
Martin Lansley, a ‘civilian’ police worker, stole sensitive data about Royal visits by senior royals. He also obtained officer’s passwords, station door codes, PNC information and cryptographic signatures of the Chief Constable.
There are clearly some problems within our police force and problems in particular with data security.
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