This is a high profile case - what else can the police do in order to prove that the police are not rascist - they have now sent the message to all ethnic minorities that it is possible to win every case if you play the race card no matter what can be proved against you. Thre will never be any justice in the country - it has gone too far never to return

Melanie’s diary posting on the Dizaei fiasco neatly follows the piece by Leo McKinstry in today’s Spectator: ‘The multicultural thought police’. Unfortunately, his piece was submitted for publication prior to the reported development in this latest disgraceful episode of unsuccessful investigation, pusillanimous capitulation to political correctness and militant racist pressure. Had the story broken before he finished the article there is little doubt that Mr McKinstry would have knitted it into his brilliant exposition.

In the not too distant future when our nation implodes and becomes a rotten offshore appendix to a European Socialist Republic, historians will have to look no further for the cause of our rapid downfall than to the profound and crystal-clear analysis to be found in Melanie’s articles in various publications over the past four or five years and to McKinstry’s brilliant essay today on of the causes of racial disharmony in this country and the Orwellian nightmare of this government.

Moreover, the stupidity of the counterproductive decision to allow politically motivated officers to form associations based on black skin colour or homosexual orientation to propagate their own militant political interests within the service is almost incredible, even in today’s farcical political climate; almost as deplorable as the juvenile antics of the Greater Manchester Police junior KKK. Should not someone ask what the reaction of the Home Secretary would be to a proposal that a ‘white police association’ and a ‘heterosexual police association’ should be tolerated? The Met already has a discredited homosexual Commander of Police, whose politicking and personal life would have resulted in his dismissal in the not too distant past, reinstated and put in charge of force intelligence - duties that should be performed only by officers of the highest reputation, positively vetted. Now a Superintendent who is reported to have admitted to his Commissioner that he has ‘done wrong’ and who has manifestly behaved in a way that is likely to bring discredit on the force, is forgiven, reinstated, given a golden handshake on the way back in and will apparently be allowed to spend his whole time on full pay working within an internal militant political group whose interests appear to be inimical to the Metropolitan Police as a whole: vide the statement by their representative exhorting black citizens not to join the police, at a time when recruitment of young men of the right calibre is an urgent necessity. What use is he to the ratepayers of the Metropolis? They deserve be served by apolitical senior police officers of the highest integrity for the type of salary that he draws - officers who set the highest standards and example to their subordinates.

When John Stevens was appointed Commissioner of the Metropolis there was great optimism among both serving and retired officers that he would restore standards of investigation and apolitical policing; that he would resist political interference and perform his duties as a Commissioner appointed by the Monarch to keep the Queens Peace without fear or favour and according to the primary objects of an efficient police posited by Sir Richard Mayne at the very birth of the Metropolitan Police. There is at least one retired officer who is now deeply dismayed that those precepts seem to have been largely abandoned. And I have spoken to many serving officers who are mortified at what is taking place. Deep resentment, fear and apathy are all rampant in what was once the finest body of public servants in the land.

Of all the ways out of this problem they have found the worst. And they found it, and determined on it, because it was the most cowardly on offer. It sacrificed the public's interest in the integrity of the police force to nothing more than the preservation, for now, of the careers of John Stevens and a bunch of Labour party politicians. They plan to be drawing pensions when the rest of UK society gets hit by the full consequences. Probably in Spain, come to think of it.

This is behaviour which destroys institutions. What smart white lads will want to join the force now, when non-white thugs can best even the Metropolitan Police Commissioner, at will like this? What restraints will there be when non-white police officers (as some in every group do) turn to crime themselves?

Just when you think you can no longer be shocked.

NS you're assuming that smart black lads won't be put off applying to join the police, I think they will, sadly. And I fear the non-white thugs will make common cause with the white thugs who have always been there and produce an unassailable, corrupt mockery of a police service.

Welcome to multi-culturalism and "diversity". We Americans have been putting up with stuff like this for years. The only thing that is at all saving us is the vestige of our strong melting pot culture, which the "multi-culturalists" are trying their damndest to destroy. Not having a 150-year-old immigrant-assimulating culture to act as a check against the most blatant idiocies of racial politics, Europe is falling head-long into the multi-culti cesspool.

S:

No, I entirely agree with you. The only thing even-handed about this is that it is a disaster for everybody except the bureaucrats presiding over it.

Here for once is an event sufficiently ghastly to merit the term 'cultural Chernobyl'.

Also, this is precisely the sort of activity which, over time, induces militant Islamists to convince themselves that westerners are irredeemably weak, feckless and irresponsible. It's a short step from there to the conclusion that we should be a target.

Where is our Winston Churchill, to describe the destination this path leads us towards in adequately chilling terms?

if Churchill were alive today he'd be vilified as a racist warmongering little Englander victimising the Germans because he didn't like Mr Hitler. So the answer to NS's question is: fuhgeddaboudit.

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Make all you can, save all you can, give all you can.

If you're going through hell, keep going.Everybody is a star with the potentiality to shine in the infinite sky of eternity.

Chief police officers have a long history of this sort of thing - how do you think they "achiebed" that rank in the first place?

Dizaei was found to have indulged in action likely to bring disrepute to the police and punished for it. You may disagree with the severity, but that's open to debate. However if a 7 million pound investigation was carried out on every senior police officer, would lying on one occasion and threatening an ex girlfriend on another be the only transgressions uncovered?
The other alternative would be to have let the discrimination case go through and frankly, I think the Met would have been hard pressed to prove that the 7 million pound investigation was justified and not driven by prejudice