Broken Yard: The Fall of the Metropolitan Police

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Devastating … A forensic account of the Met’s descent into a national embarrassment. Excellent and very timely.” Guy Adams, Daily Mail So convinced was he of his own impunity that in 2013 he decided to sue the Sunday Times for libel for referring to him as a ‘crime lord’. Barely a week goes by without the Metropolitan Police Service being plunged into a new crisis. Demoralised and depleted in numbers, Scotland Yard is a shadow of its former self. A searing account of corruption, racism and mismanagement inside Britain's most famous police forceBut as he reveals in this thoroughly researched take-down of London policing, the Met have long been in crisis and the nine million Londoners whose safety they are entrusted with are being horrendously short-changed. However, it never really went away: using the murder of Stephen Lawrence and the subsequent hopeless half-hearted investigation as a starting point, Harper takes us through 30 years of scandals that have seen the Met discredited, at war with its Whitehall paymasters (interestingly, the force that is described as once being full of Conservative voters now has a police officer saying none will ever vote Tory again) and not able to do its job. Harper’s work is meticu­lous. He has sourced transcripts and police files, court reports and off-the-record briefings. He has spoken with straight and bent coppers and criminals. This means while we have heard the stories before, Harper offers an insiders’ angle, and it is revelatory in its findings. The media is central to maintaining reputations. Has its colossal influence on public opinion destroyed any chance of reforming the image of the Met Police? Over at Tower 42, the police officers surveying those documents were feeling the effects of Murdoch’s regret.

Are STEM CELLEXOSOMES the secret to a 'snatched' jawline? Discover the products that influencers are claiming gave them taut, flawless skin... Meticulous and passionate. Tom Harper has written the most authoritative critique of British policing in years.” Sir Mark Rowley is the new Met Police commissioner. Is he up to the job? Who would you have selected instead? Broken Yard could hardly be more timely. Harper 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.” Duncan Campbell, The ObserverLucy Panton, the former crime editor of the News of the World, was put through two trials and nineteen months on police bail. She said she had been “completely hung out to dry” by a company which she had loyally served for a decade. “When my daughter Lily was born she was very ill and on a life support machine. I was made to work by her bedside after her second and third operations. The loyalty I had shown to the company meant nothing.” But Panton, who is married to a police officer, was even more furious at the betrayal of her sources: Dean McDermott reveals he spent Thanksgiving at sober living facility and NOT with Tori Spelling and their kids Hunt eventually lost, but not before the Met had attempted to prevent leaked police documents that supported the newspaper being aired in court, claiming they were too sensitive. As the ST’s QC rightly argued, Scotland Yard was therefore effectively assisting a crime boss to bring a ‘corrupt claim’.

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A phone operator then decided to record the incident as ‘no crime’, a move that improperly boosted police statistics. The Eatons were furious. And when a scene-of-crime officer did eventually pay them a cursory visit, some 48 hours later, he refused to review clear CCTV footage identifying the offender — he refused to take it. How did we reach this squalid malais? Who is to blame? And can it be fixed? Harper, who has a forensic eye for detail, explores scandals large and small, from the way investigations into the murders of Daniel Morgan and Stephen Lawrence in the early 1990s were hobbled by police links to organised crime and dodgy detective agencies, to the squalid culture that led to the force telling a series of porkies about the dreadful failings that led to the shooting of De Menezes. Slim Sharon Osbourne, 71, seen after admitting she could 'do with putting on a few pounds' since losing 42lbs with weight loss drug