Yard suspends 66 detectives
NZPA London Scotland Yard has announced the suspension of 66 detectives and other police officers pending investigation into allegations of bribery, corruption, and other offences. The suspensions are part of a campaign by Sir David McNee, the metropolitan police commissioner, to restore Scotland Yard’s former reputation for the highest standards of honesty and integrity. Sir David, a tough Scotsman known as “Hammer,” McNee, is following a campaign which his predecessor, Sir Robert Mark, launched
and maintained from 1972. Under Sir Robert’s regime, nearly 100 officers left the force after formal proceedings, nearly 500 resigned, and others were jailed for up to 12 years. One of those in the suspended 66 is a detective superintendent who worked as a detective sergeant in the Yard’s elite fraud squad.
This officer was ordered not to report for duty until the complaints investigation bureau had looked into his activities in the same detailed way it was checking the activities of other suspended fraud squad detectives, said a Yard spokesman.
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