UK: Police
01 January 1991
UK: Police
artdoc April=1995
London police officers charged after corruption probe
Two London police officers are to prosecuted for conspiracy to
pervert the course of justice following a three-year inquiry into
alleged corruption at a north London police station serving a
multiracial community.
The charges followed an investigation, `Operation Jackpot' into
the activities of officers at Stoke Newington police station, in
which the planting of drugs and the fabricating of evidence were
at the forefront of issues investigated. A further 44 officers
investigated will not be charged (Guardian 22.7.94).
Silcott detectives acquitted
Two detectives charged with conspiring to pervert the course of
justice in connection with the conviction of Winston Silcott for
the murder in 1985 of PC Keith Blakelock were cleared at the Old
Bailey.
Winston Silcott attacked the press coverage of the case for
serving as a retrial of himself. The trial of the two officers,
and their subsequent acquittal, were accompanied by lurid
headlines in the national press such as `We saw him cut up cop'
and the `14 murder witnesses too frightened to talk' (Guardian
27.7.94, CARF no. 22).
IRR European Race Audit, Bulletin no 10, September 1994. Contact:
Liz Fekete, Institute of Race Relations, 2-6 Leeke Street, London
WC1X 9HS. Tel: 0171 837 0041