A short tutorial in the concealment of official corruption

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.

PC Blakelock: black people are waiting for justice too

The Guardian has an interesting article this morning on the continuing resentment against the Metropolitan Police in at least some parts of the black community in London: PC Blakelock: black people are waiting for justice too

Four deaths of black people at the hands of the Metropolitan Police are listed, none of which have resulted in charges against Police officers.

The article illustrates a systematic bias in the "justice" system in the UK and illustrates a systematic bias in the media coverage too.

Yes, of course, there should be justice for PC Blakelock. But there should also be justice for the black people killed at the hands of the Metropolitan Police.

The killing of Azelle Rodney - The Report

Yesterday, the Azelle Rodney Inquiry, Azelle Rodney Inquiry, published its report.

The Executive Summary of the Report is here: The Executive Summary of the Azelle Rodney Inquiry Report .

The full Report is here: The Azelle Rodney Inquiry Report .

The BBC reports its conclusions as indicating that there was no lawful basis for the killing of Azelle Rodney by a Metropolitan Police firearms officer: Azelle Rodney death: 'No justification' for police shooting 

Other media outlets are more forthright, indicating that Azelle Rodney was unlawfully killed. See, for example, Azelle Rodney death: unlawful killing verdict for Met marksman
in the Guardian and Police marksman may face trial over botched shooting of suspected gangster Azelle Rodney in the Independent.

The Crown Prosecution Service previously had decided not to prosecute the firearms officer.

It will be interesting to see if they change that position in light of the Inquiry's report.

I have recently been reading parts of the MacPherson Report into the murder of Stephen Lawrence.

There are disturbing similarities in the arguably shambolic organisation of the Metropolitan Police Service operation in both cases.

The Lockerbie Bombing: the CIA "wanted to kill the accused before trial"

In the Scotsman this week there is a report, arising from a recent book by William Chasey claiming that the CIA wanted to kill the two Lockerbie accused before trial.

See CIA ‘wanted to kill Lockerbie bomber before trial’

25th Anniversary: Iran Air Flight 655

This month is the 25th Anniversary of the shooting down by the US Navy of Iran Air Flight 655.

See, for example, Remembering Iran Air Flight 655 and Iran Air Flight 655

In the mind of Lockerbie investigators that event of July 1988 may well be causally related to the Lockerbie Disaster of December 1988.

Establishing the truth about what happened at Lockerbie is an ongoing battle against what ought to be the forces of justice in Scotland.

It seems to me that there are very serious questions that require to be answered about the role of the Dumfries and Galloway Constabulary, the Crown Office and, whisper it, the Court of Session judges who convicted Abdel Basset Al-Megrahi.

The Hillsborough Independent Panel, Hillsborough Independent Panel , has taken us much closer to the Truth about the Hillsborough Disaster.

Sadly, the resistance in official circles to establishing the Truth about the Lockerbie Disaster and the likely criminal cover-up of its true cause goes on.

Two further arrests in the Plebgate fiasco

There are reports today that two more arrests have been made in the Plebgate row. See, for example, 'Plebgate' investigators arrest police officer and woman in the Guardian and Police officer and woman arrested in 'plebgate' probe from the BBC.

A 48 year old male Police constable in the Diplomatic Protection Group was one of those arrested.

I await with interest to see how things proceed.

Was there a conspiracy to subvert a Government Minister by serving Metropolitan Police Service officers? That's one of the most interesting questions yet to be explored in detail.

Email to Detective Inspector Neil Matthews of the Metropolitan Police - Is arming the Syrian rebels a criminal offence under UK Law?

This post consists largely of an email sent today to Detective Inspector Neil Matthews, Staff Officer to Assistant Commissioner Mark Rowley of the Metropolitan Police.

I believe I have a duty imposed by Section 38B of the Terrorism Act 2000 to report to a "constable" my suspicions about proposed terrorist offences by David Cameron MP and William Hague MP so that terrorist offences contrary to Section 5 of the Terrorism Act 2006 may be prevented.

Here is the text of my email to Detective Inspector Matthews:

Detective Inspector Matthews,

In accordance with the duty imposed on me by Section 38B of the Terrorism Act 2000 I am reporting to you as a constable my suspicions that David Cameron MP and William Hague MP are proposing to commit offences contrary to Section 5 of the Terrorism Act 2006 by unlawfully supplying arms to rebel groups in Syria.

Please bring this matter to the immediate attention of Assistant Commissioner Mark Rowley.

I ask you to ensure that you record this report as a suspected crime and supply me with a Unique Reference Number relating to this matter.

My reasoning regarding the suspected offences by Mr. Cameron and Mr. Hague is laid out in my email of today's date to David Anderson QC the UK Government's independent reviewer of terrorist legislation.

The text of my email to Mr. Anderson (copied to my constituency MP Sir Robert Smith) is here:

http://criminal-state.blogspot.co.uk/2013/06/email-to-david-anderson-qc-is-arming.html

That email contains a link to a more extended consideration of the matter on my fuqq.eu blog here:

http://www.fuqq.eu/2013/06/is-arming-syrian-rebels-criminal.html

You are aware that I believe that senior Metropolitan Police officers may have perverted and may be continuing to pervert the course of justice with respect to the failure to investigate suspected terrorist offences.

In that context I am sure that you and Assistant Commissioner Rowley will wish carefully to consider how you proceed.

Thank you

(Dr) Andrew Watt

I copied the email to Assistant Commissioner Rowley and his other Staff Officer, Detective Chief Inspector Jacqueline Sebire.

It will, indeed, be interesting to see how the Metropolitan Police proceeds on this matter.