Slowly but surely the names of police involved in corrupt, lazy or incompetent prosecutions are becoming public. Some forces will be carrying the names and numbers of the officers on lapels in future.

Is this the first step towards the individuals involved in such miscarriages as Sally Clark, Barry George, Sion Jenkins, Stefan Kisko and the thousands of other innocent victims being named and, often, prosecuted?

If so this could be a giant step towards sorting out the inefficient and useless from the evil and wicked.

Incidentally, all the officers involved in the miscarriages of justice in my case are named in the book.

Locked Out - brilliant post. That is why I have not posted about this "case" on here - because the majority of the Police are white and this was a "Black" policeman hung out to dry as a sop to those of us who complain about the awful bent organisation that the Police has become.

The Police are being asked to be "social workers" "security guards" "political enforcers" and many other roles - I would like to see them being restored to fighting real crime ( not invented allegations ) where there is real evidence and not "thought" crimes.

When this is done and they are freed from paperwork - then we could see the Police numbers cut in half and reducing COUNCIL TAX for all of us by 35%.

The POLICE are a waste of money.

Locked Out wrote:
This has been a triumph for justice. Unfortunately - as far as I am concerned at least - the case of Ali Dizaei is an isolated one and from quite a few sources {Brian Paddick being a notable exception} the message coming out of the Met carried too many themes along the lines of "got the black bastard at last". Had Dezaei been white and pumped seven bullets into the head of a perfectly innocent man there is little doubt that he would still be at his station. Similarly, had he been white and beaten a man to the ground with the result that the man died his position would remain unchallenged. If he had been white. This is certainly a good result for right and proper justice. But it's only really a tiny one with worrying implications.

I think you are right. His actions were appalling but I got the feeling that it was a perfect bust..a troublesome cop and a black victim.

This was just the Police doing what they have been doing for a long time - gunning for a thorn in their collective sides by hook or by crook. A crook is just what this guy was undoubtedly - but it was a resounding witchunt, the type that happen in every force on a smaller scale all the time.
I knew a straight-down-the-line honest copper (of the old schoool sort you would never get now, a 'rough diamond') and Humberside Police went all-out to set him up, never caring who they damaged in the meantime - individuals, business, whatever - alleging theft at first and after several attempts at that didn't work they 'discovered' he'd had a loving liason with a teenage lad some years earlier and the rough, tough, straight-down-the-line man with 30 years loyal service and a wife and 3 kids was eventually broken and sent to jail for a good ol' "sex offence". He served a couple of years, then died a couple of years after that of a brain tumour - supported by his family but pulverised by the force he gave almost 30 years honest service too.
His 'real crime' was refusing to move departments leaving the force unable to fulfill their short-term plans, that is all.
This type of s**t must be happening all of the time