The investigative journalist examines key episodes from the Met’s recent history, with frank contributions from insiders, in a book that should be essential reading for the new commissioner
Officers will be rightly criticised as Britain’s biggest force is put into special measures, but ministers betrayed the public too, says former Guardian crime correspondent Duncan Campbell
NORWELL ROBERTS: The reporting sergeant at Bow Street Police Station did not mince his words. Look, you n r, he snarled. I ll see to it that you won t finish your probation.
A grammar school-educated gangster who called himself Mr Bright was jailed for eight years - after police found loaded guns and a haul of drugs at his flat.