A report on the 1987 killing of the private investigator paints a picture of incompetence, dishonesty and arrogance
It is half a century since Sir Robert Mark, the Metropolitan police commissioner brought in to clean up a force riddled at the time with corrupt detectives, famously announced that it was his intention to arrest more criminals than he employed. The findings of the independent panel into the 1987 murder of the private detective Daniel Morgan now provide a telling echo of that time, in terms of the behaviour both of the police and of those parts of the press that cheerfully rewarded and encouraged the bent coppers and dodgy private detectives who supplied them with tales.
Much has been made of the time – eight years – it has taken the panel to conclude its investigation, and the cost – £16m – involved in carrying out the inquiry. But picking through the 1,200 pages of the report and its baleful conclusions of incompetence, dishonesty, arrogance and worse would be a very worthwhile exercise for anyone concerned about the state of British policing, the criminal justice system and, not least, the relationships, past and present, between the media and the police.
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