One phenomenon that we will find increasingly frequent is the drowning-out of important news stories by the overwhelming effects of Covid-19. Soon, every day will be a good day for revealing bad news. One such that has gone almost completely unnoticed was the report by Her Majesty's Inspector of Constabulary into the Noncefinder-General / Met police celebrity sex abuse mess.
The Met wasted £5m of our taxes and a cost of scores of real crimes going uninvestigated as detectives as credulous as old maids chased phantom high-end personalities, egged on by Labour's deputy leader, Noncefinder-General Tom Watson and the kiddie-fiddler they had especially befriended.
Cressida Dick, the police officer with command responsibility for the shooting of innocent Brazilian electrician Jean Charles de Menezes, was Met chief from 2017 to 2019, during which time she had on her desk the report by Sir Richard Henriques and did exactly nothing to tackle the institutional incompetence and malfeasance in the Met. In fact, she seems to have spent all her efforts into hiding the Henriques report from the public - fully assisted, no doubt, by the failed mandarins at the Home Office who flourished under Theresa May.
It stinks. Cressida Dick must go. As Harvey Proctor told the Telegraph
"Police officers who mess up and get things so seriously wrong including the present Commissioner should bear a personal responsibility for their wrong doing. They should not be promoted, pensioned off. Ennobled and enriched. That is not the correct lesson that should be learnt from this dreadful scandal - the worst in living memory of the police."
| 13/03/20 | ||
| EU/EEA and the UK | Cases | Deaths |
| Italy | 15113 | 1016 |
| Spain | 3004 | 84 |
| France | 2876 | 61 |
| Germany | 2369 | 5 |
| Denmark | 676 | 0 |
| Norway | 621 | 1 |
| Sweden | 620 | 1 |
| Netherlands | 614 | 5 |
| United Kingdom | 590 | 10 |
| Belgium | 399 | 3 |
| Austria | 361 | 1 |
| Finland | 155 | 0 |
| Greece | 133 | 1 |
| Iceland | 117 | 0 |
| Czech Republic | 116 | 0 |
| Slovenia | 96 | 0 |
| Portugal | 78 | 0 |
| Ireland | 70 | 1 |
| Romania | 64 | 0 |
| Poland | 49 | 1 |
| Estonia | 27 | 0 |
| Luxembourg | 26 | 0 |
| Croatia | 25 | 0 |
| Bulgaria | 23 | 1 |
| Slovakia | 21 | 0 |
| Hungary | 16 | 0 |
| Latvia | 16 | 0 |
| Malta | 9 | 0 |
| Cyprus | 6 | 0 |
| Liechtenstein | 4 | 0 |
| Lithuania | 3 | 0 |
| Total | 28297 | 1191 |
22 comments:
Agreed, but even the DT didn't have the guts to call for her instant dismissal yesterday. Just a plea for her to clean up the Met, or resign.
A fish rots from the head. She is responsible for the stench and there should be no opportunity to conduct a "clean-up" or to resign with dignity.
She should be replaced by a Copper who isn't approved by Common Purpose on the basis that they tick several "diversity boxes."
You are exploiting the Plebgate Fallacy.
That was, because one witness was discredited there was no case to answer.
However, fortunately, in that instance there were other witnesses who were not, and the accusations were proved.
The other witnesses in decades-old VIP child abuse cases have mainly perished in often unexplained circumstances however.
No one has been proven innocent.
@JPM If you have any evidence then send it to the police or a reputable newspaper. Otherwise all you have is feelings and a reluctance to let go of a conspiracy theory which aligns with your worldview.
Or a poor excuse for trolling, of course.
As I understand things, the onus of proof is on the prosecution to PROVE guilt, whilst there is no requirement for the defence to PROVE innocence.
Under the organically grown laws of England, along with the majority of the Anglo-sphere and as published by a Mr. Halsbury, the whole of the population are treated (technically) as equal before the law. This includes the people that we elect to lead us.
JPM seems to have a predilection for altering this position by 180 degrees, in order to ensure that burden shifts to the individual.
Everyone is intrinsically guilty, so all you need is a politician in a black dress, to explain why. There is no requirement to prove guilt, you are guilty by default.
Has anyone here heard of Laura Codruţa Kövesi?
Off to the Gulag you go.
JPM writes "No one has been proven innocent."
In Law one is assumed innocent. It is up to the police/prosecution to prove guilt
You'll never find anything unless you look for it (including being allowed to look).
We know of at least one who's deprevations were conveniently overlooked until well after his passing and I very much doubt anyone else was allowed to be investigated as required given the already exposed biases towards young girls being abused by 'protected beliefs' to keep the peace.
Imagine the uproar if that fat bastard MP HAD been exposed when he was in office....
I'd like to see the investigative evidence made available for indepent review before closing this little hornets nest.
I agree, Miss Dick should be sacked.
But
Who proposed her for the top job? Who appointed her? And from whom does she take her orders? These unknown people are equally, if not more so, responsible for the corruption.
OT. Radders, Carinthia only having 4 cases of COVID19? Doesn't sound realistic to me or is the population that small?
GW - No, you're right. Austrians are great hiders - if you don't see it, it's not a problem. With tourism here such a huge part of the economy everyone reckons there's a lot of hidden Covid-19. They're also small and very, very tough here - unless their lungs are half full of fluid, they'll tough it out. And then deny they were sick.
You don't have to prove innocence. This is not Europe.
Dave G - Yes, Greville Janner and Cyril Smith both had long histories of multiple complaints from many sources over a long period of time and were protected by the police. In contrast to the obviously raving fantasies of just one sick informant, which were openly investigated with full attendant publicity.
All of which persuades me that in the face of such police incapabiity to manage their own investigations, we need outside authorities to supervise them in their work.
She's barely 5ft tall - and weedy with it - a poor communicator and far to political for this type of public servant. I simply don't find her credible. Her record is at best only adequate and yet she's the highest ranking police officer in the land?
Steve
Of course it is for the prosecution to prove their case.
In this matter, many of the accused themselves, such as Enoch Powell - by the Bishop of Durham - Lord McAlpine, and Greville Janner, are dead, along with their accusers.
I keep an open mind, however, no more.
PS, in Scotland there is Case Not Proven as a verdict.
Radders, up-to-date Covid19 worldwide infections are listed here:
https://gisanddata.maps.arcgis.com/apps/opsdashboard/index.html#/bda7594740fd40299423467b48e9ecf6
Your table is a bit behind the (exponential) curve.
"All of which persuades me that in the face of such police incapability to manage their own investigations, we need outside authorities to supervise them in their work."
And who will supervise these Outside Authorities ? Full of their own importance, they will be captured by political fashions just as much as the Supreme Court.
The Great and the Good are a dream in the minds of the little and goodish.
Don Cox
EdP - Yep, it's generally 24 to 48 hours behind, but they're the official WHO figures from https://www.ecdc.europa.eu/en/cases-2019-ncov-eueea
It doesn't make much difference. When the deaths go past 100,000 in a few weeks they'll probably adopt a different format - but it's useful as a consistent record to scroll back
If we're too small for you Don you don't have to visit ...
JPM 08:19
Indeed, much like the Guildford Four, Birmingham Six, Maguire 7 etc, all freed due to flawed convictions, bad policework, confessions under duress etc. Not sure they were ever 'proven innocent'.
Cressida was interviewed and appointed by Theresa May. The worst home secretary and the person responsible for destroying the police. Cressida was never likely to rock the boat was she ?
Jaded
A fascinating omission from the dataset relates to the sort of people who die, and the sorts of people who recover. Is it true that the fatalities are primarily the elderly who already have health issues especially breathing difficulties? Was the journalist who said that this was a cull of a particular sector of the population even approximately right? Or is it misinformation, fake news?
Raed said "...raving fantasies of just one sick informant, which were openly investigated with full attendant publicity."
Thereby stands the problem. 'Open investigation with FULL ATTENDANT PUBLICITY".
Strange that I don't recall the investigations into Janner/Smith - probably because raiding their premises with helicopter news in tow was somewhat difficult.... - but if the last round of investigations were done 'discretely' and with a news blackout AND the investigators were free from political persuasion/interference maybe we'd have a different outcome.
There is, apparently, far more upper echelon mischievousness going on than we are allowed to be party to. I have no difficulty believing such abuses happen if even to be used as leverage of the guilty party thereafter. It might explain how some people are so disregarding of voters, protocol, basic humanity etc. It's not just 'money' that corrupts.
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