Watching the compensation bandwagon roll on makes me wonder... are police aware of their likely future involvement in court cases? There was Hillsborough ("Just say this... nobody will be able to prove the opposite... it will all die off in time") where individual plods could never have imagined the future and the prison sentences they will serve.
There is Weeting and Elveden and plods about to end in prison (some already are) for accepting cash from bent hacks ("Don't worry... everybody does it... nobody will ever know").
When those lying or exaggerating stories about being abused by dead people end up in court for perverting the course of justice and manufacturing tales of distant rapes, individual, named junior police will be dragged into the witness box and asked "Did you thoroughly examine these claimed events?".
When the answer is "No, how could we? The perp was deceased" the question will be "Then why did you not challenge officers declaring Dead Bloke "the worst paedophile ever"?"
And, in due course, as liars are jailed for the harmless crime of inflating past experiences to make money, get sympathy or respect or attention or whatever motives, those poor innocent cops will follow them into Belmarsh for corruption or laziness or incompetence ("But everyone was doing it... how was I to know the future morality would change?...")
A lot of currently smugly satisfied prosecutors ("You will be believed just like we believe murderers who deny their crimes") should be nervously examining crystal balls.

I don't think cops think beyond the next conviction. Doubt they even contemplate repercussions that may result from their actions.

Watching The Bill earlier (on Watch), and some members of the Met were covering up a car accident outside a nightclub where one of their own PC Sally Armstrong (wonderfully played by Ali Bastian) was involved being the driver of the one car. The other off-duty officier immediately covered it up by giving her a false name, and later contacting his superior who went along with the cover-up.
It was definitely a case of "looking after their own". Worked too.

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Watching The Bill earlier (on Watch), and some members of the Met were covering up a car accident outside a nightclub where one of their own PC Sally Armstrong (wonderfully played by Ali Bastian) was involved being the driver of the one car. The other off-duty officier immediately covered it up by giving her a false name, and later contacting his superior who went along with the cover-up.
It was definitely a case of "looking after their own". Worked too.

And yes i know this is fictional lol