OPERATION MIDLAND
In 2014, the infamous Operation Midland was sanctioned by Dame Cressida Dick, who later became Scotland Yard Commissioner.
Five years later, as the embarrassing operation began to unravel in earnest, she refused to allow an investigation into the behavior of the officers involved.
This is despite former Supreme Court justice Sir Richard Henriques revealing how officers had used false evidence to obtain a search warrant for the raids. Dame Cressida said an investigation would be “totally inappropriate”.
A 2020 report found that the Metropolitan Police was more interested in covering up mistakes than learning from them.
Dame Cressida was also attacked by the families of victims of VIP pedophile ring fanatic Carl Beech, whose false allegations were investigated by police – ruining the lives and reputations of those he accused
The Hampshire home of the Queen’s confidant Lord Bramall – who was also a former Chief of the Armed Forces – had been raided by police in the early hours with search warrants on trumped-up charges of abuse by pedophile Carl Beech, a palpable fanatic.
After the Daily Mail exposed him, Beech was jailed. Before he died, D-Day hero Lord Bramall told his son Nick that “he had never been more mortally wounded, not even in battle.”
Former Tory MP Harvey Proctor, who received a substantial payout after his life was ruined by the disastrous pedophile investigation, last night expressed delight at the demise of Dame Cressida.
He was one of seven high-profile Met victims — including Baroness Lawrence, whose son Stephen’s 1993 murder investigation was botched by racist officers — who came together in a Mail interview last year to accuse Dame Cressida of “chairing a culture of incompetence.” ”.
Wayne Couzens
SARAH EVERARD
In March last year, 33-year-old marketing manager Sarah Everard was kidnapped, raped and murdered by serving Met police officer Wayne Couzens.
Then it turned out that Couzens had not been properly vetted and Met officers had failed to investigate after he reported flashing women days before the murder.
But perhaps the worst moment for Dame Cressida Dick was her officers’ heavy-handed police surveillance of the murdered woman at Clapham Common in south London.
Photos of protesting women being pinned down by arresting officers citing Covid restrictions on gatherings were published around the world, leading to condemnation.
When Couzens was convicted, it was referred to as Scotland Yard’s “darkest day.” Dame Cressida stood outside the Old Bailey and humbly admitted that the murder had eroded confidence in the police and brought “disgrace” to her army.
MURDER PHOTOS
In December last year, two Scotland Yard agents who took photographs of the bodies of two murder victims were jailed.
The sisters who died – Nicole Smallman, 27 and Bibaa Henry 46, were black and there were allegations of racism. 2021 was also the worst year on record for teen homicides, with 30 deaths.
Bibaa Henry, 46, and Nicole Smallman, 27, who were stabbed to death at Wembley last year
Further mock-ups of messages sent by a male officer during another shocking conversation on WhatsApp
CHARING CROSS
Earlier this year, details emerged of horrific messages exchanged by officers at Charing Cross Police Station, according to an official watchdog report.
As a result, about 14 officers were investigated, and two were found guilty of gross misconduct.
One was fired and another resigned before being fired. Two more had already left, while in some of the other cases the Independent Police Behavior Service ruled that ‘no further action should be taken’.
Incredibly, nine officers kept their jobs and two were promoted – but their sickening WhatsApp messages exposed an ongoing culture of racism, sexism and bullying.
Looks like this sickening episode was the straw that ended up breaking the back. Because by the end, it was clear that confidence in the police chief was gone.
XR PROTEST
In 2019, the force was widely condemned for its ‘light’ police surveillance of Extinction Rebellion protests, which blocked several key areas of London.
Under her tutelage, career eco-activists from XR and its offshoot Insulate Britain were given free rein to cause mayhem.
Ambulances could not go through, while companies and workers had to stop their activities.
A low came when police were filmed asking roadblocking protesters if they needed anything – rather than just arresting them.
DANIEL MORGAN
Perhaps the most overwhelming conviction of Dame Cressida came in June last year, when an official report described her armed forces as “institutionalized corrupt.”
And far from blaming the fiasco on a pastor, it concluded that she had personally placed “hurdles” in the way of a search for the truth about the death of Daniel Morgan – a private detective who was brutally murdered in a parking lot. in a pub in South London in 1987.
Daniel Morgan was investigating corruption charges within the Metropolitan Police when he was murdered in 1987 – and the force has failed him and his family ever since. His brother Alastair told the media that Cressida Dick must resign
Dame Cressida was charged with ’embezzlement’ for thwarting Morgan’s investigative team’s attempts to access sensitive documents, leading to delays costing taxpayers millions. Baroness O’Loan’s report stated that Scotland Yard was “institutionalized corrupt”.
The Met never found Morgan’s killer, but there were longstanding allegations of police corruption over the murder and its aftermath.
Morgan’s brother Alastair also joined Baroness Lawrence, Harvey Proctor and Lord Bramall in a devastating and unprecedented joint interview with the Daily Mail.
They all signed a letter to the Prime Minister demanding the resignation of Dame Cressida. Instead, she clung to it.
Stephen Port
STEPHEN PORT
A court jury ruled in December that failures of Met detectives contributed to the deaths of the last three victims of a serial killer.
Stephen Port killed four men, all in their early 20s, by overdosing on the date rape drug gamma-hydroxybutyrate (GHB) at his home in east London between June 2014 and September 2015.
He was sentenced to life imprisonment in the Old Bailey in 2016 for the murders and a series of sexual assaults.
The forensic investigation found that the police did not even carry out basic checks after each murder.
A lawyer for the victims’ families said the Met’s actions were driven in part by homophobia.
Last week, watchdog the Independent Office for Police Conduct (IOPC) announced it will re-examine the Met’s handling of the case.
BIANCA WILLIAMS
In April, it emerged that five Met officers are facing a gross misconduct hearing over their 2020 detention and search of Team GB athlete Bianca Williams.
The sprinter and partner Ricardo Dos Santos, the Portuguese athlete, was stopped in their car in west London and separated from their three-month-old son who was in the back of the vehicle.
Nothing illegal was found during the search and the couple, who are black, allege they were racially profiled.
SEARCH COMICS
Last month, the IOPC confirmed it was investigating a series of cases where teenage girls on their periods were searched by Met agents.
Two of the cases, involving a black girl named “Child Q” and a mixed-race girl known as “Olivia,” took place in December 2020. A third case is also under investigation.
Child Q was searched at her school in Hackney, east London, by two women after being falsely suspected of carrying drugs.