telling me that i am doing a witchhunt investigation. mr veeren complained to the police watchdog four years ago, before leaving the force two years later. in august, it made three recommendations about how the met could improve its internal investigations, saying there was confusion and a culture of mistrust, but said it found no evidence of corruption. the met said. the rules are clear. if there are cases where restrictions have been eased, it has not been to put more people out on the beat, it has been because that is the proportionate thing to do, the appropriate thing to do. but the former investigator s allegations raise serious questions about the force s ability to police itself. either you accept and move on or you resist and you get pushed out.
but tonight, new allegations about how the force investigates its own. there are a lot of officers who are a clear risk not only to victims but to the organisation. jaysen veeren, for ten years a met officer, including time inside its internal investigations unit, the dps, policing the police. but he claims, with cuts to officers, he felt pressured to help reduce the restrictions faced by those under investigation by a senior officer known as the appropriate authority . you recorded some of your fellow officers talking about the way cases were managed. what did that recording say? it clearly shows the appropriate authority telling me there s too many officers on restriction and we did not have enough officers on the street of london. we re not going to sack everybody that comes to attention of dps, we re only sacking the one that really deserves to be sacked. in one case, an officer on an order to prevent domestic violence