I've discovered that British Police now have joke departments in all forces called the Professional Standards Department. Clearly created (possibly inspired by Hillsborough?) to brush complaints under carpets. The IPCC (INDEPENDENT police complaints) sends complaints back to the PSD whose job is to dispose of anything tricky - I suppose including removing very junior and clearly incompetent staff, as I assume happened in the Breck Bednar case, and paying a small amount of blood money to the wronged relatives - "here's a couple of grand; now please piss off") sparing the IPCC too much work.

I suspect this game is about to be seriously rumbled (if I have anything to do with it) with a decent journalist exposing it and ripping it apart.

Like so many Government departments, what surprises me is that staff at the IPCC (like the CCRC) goes along with this. Surely any decent human being would blow a whistle? I suppose it is left to ordinary people (like the brave Hillsborough relatives) to make a fuss.