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Enormous
Drug-Corruption
Scandal
Rocks
Scotland
Yard
2/6/98
A team of internal investigators has found that up to 250 high-ranking
members of some of Scotland Yard's most elite squads have been working
with major drug dealers and criminal organizations. Suspects include both
active officers up to the rank of detective chief inspector, and retired
officers up to the rank of commander, with most having between 10 and 25
years on the force, according to The Independent. That paper also cites
Sir Paul Condon, Metropolitan Police Commissioner, who said that the vast
profits available in the narcotics trade meant that officers could collect
bribes of fifty to eighty thousand pounds to "subvert a single job"
or to "recycle drugs".
The offenses allegedly committed by the officers include the destruction
of evidence, stealing drugs and re-selling them to other dealers, and protecting
criminal operations by passing along information and derailing investigations.
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Issue #28, 2/6/98
Attention All Students: Plug in, Stand up, Speak out!! DRCNet invites you to join U-NET | Alert: Call to Action -- Johnnie Mae Brown | California Correspondent Needed for The Week Online | 200 March in Protest of Surveillance Cameras in Washington Square Park | A Conversation with Norman Siegel, Executive Director of the New York Civil Liberties Union | Enormous Drug-Corruption Scandal Rocks Scotland Yard | Canadian Activists Vow Massive Civil Disobedience: Will open numerous medical marijuana outlets | Mexican Unit Conducting Inquiry into Disappearances Found to be Infiltrated by Drug Traffickers | Editorial: Surveillance, Corruption, and the War on Drugs
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