In our supposedly democratic society there are multiple checks and balances that are supposed to ensure the rule of Law.
But, in practice, the system of checks and balances doesn't work.
One of the lynchpins in the concealment of official wrongdoing and criminality is the IPCC.
Let's suppose that a senior politician, in his ministerial role, breaks the Law. Or, perhaps, a senior Police officer is suspected of perverting the course of justice.
A concerned citizen reports in writing the suspected crime to the Metropolitan Police at the highest level.
The Metropolitan Police claims an absolute discretion to investigate or not.
The concerned citizen reports the Police failure (which conceals ministerial crime) to the Independent Police Complaints Commission.
The IPCC gets the Law wrong and refuses to investigate the matter.
The concerned citizen lodges a formal complaint about the IPCC Commissioner involved.
The IPCC refuses to investigate.
The concerned citizen writes to the Home Office about the IPCC Chair's refusal to investigate the concealment of "serious corruption" by the Police.
What do the Home Office do?
Currently, after some 5 weeks, the Home Office hasn't acknowledged the complaint regarding the Chair of the IPCC.
What other options exist?
Report the IPCC Chair to the Police for misconduct in public office or perverting the course of justice?
But would the Police investigate? So far as I'm aware, every Police force in the UK is subject to the IPCC's authority.
And, far off in the political sphere, the Home Affairs Select Committee which is responsible for oversight of both the Police and the IPCC quietly ignores the evidence in front of it and looks the other way.
And official criminality, including Police corruption and IPCC corruption, continues untroubled by meaningful accountability.
