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"Untouchables" Michael Gillard / Laurie Flynn

As a special bonus, Jon Austin has been similarly good on debunking NCA's self-written legend, particularly on EncroChat stuff.

Here he discusses how his basic journalistic research - matching up details in an NCA press release to a publicly available court listing - led to the NCA passing his personal details over to lawyers representing rich people the NCA was supposedly investigating!

 
Michael Gillard on The Real Line Of Duty, a new true crime docco on Amazon Prime that parrots the official MPS line on CIBIC and CIB3:

..."This could be a film,” sizzled former CIB3 commander Andy Hayman, “you couldn’t make it up.”

Only, they did, and what follows over three episodes is neither new, balanced or accurate.

It is, however, a piece of police propaganda at a time the Met needs it most, which ends with the farcical claim that CIB3’s ruthless blitz on the bent continued for the next two decades and has acted as a “deterrent” to corrupt cops.

Absolutely, that’s why the force branded institutionally corrupt, racist and misogynist is in special measures and experiencing an unprecedented collapse of public trust with over one thousand officers being pushed through discipline and the criminal justice system....
 
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