"These criminals are earning millions and millions of pounds." "You can buy policemen, politicians, planning officers, judges, CPS officials." "There's going to be a price for everyone." "This is the story of the battle against bent cops." "Revealed for the first time by those who were there." "We were a law unto ourselves." "If evidence is not forth coming, then we would commit a helping hand to get a conviction." "Customs didn't trust them, MI6 didn't trust them," "MI5 didn't trust them." "Nobody trusted them." "It is the story of how organised crime corrupted the police." "Certainly the lower grade detectives were almost indistinguishable at some stages from the criminals." "The truth of the matter?" "They were seriously organised criminals with police badges." "It is also the story of how the police fought back." "They wanted an undercover squad that could gather intelligence that could be used to try and nail these bustards." "And we were set up to target them." "My gut feeling is that everything was being manipulated by corrupt policemen working on the inside." "My gut feeling was we at that point, we had been set up, completely set up." "The police was Dave McCel I have's life." "Ever since he joined the Met at 18." "McCel have's life." "Ever since he joined the Met at 18. " " Dave McKelve, why." "I didn't go to work for the money." "I went to work because I loved it." "I had was the one who put the door in." "And that's what it was about for me, about catching bad people, catching people, rapists, murderers, people involved in drugs crimes." "It was about catching them and hopefully putting them in prison." "As head of the Newham crime squad his team got results." "I know from the feedback, the intelligence we got back, that it caused chaos amongst the criminal network, because they didn't know what was going on." "We were taking out major criminals all the time and they couldn't work out who it was and why." "A routine raid in 2006 set off a chain of events that put Dave" "McKelvey on a collision course with organised crime." "It began in a scrap yard in Docklands, East London." "It was a search warrant forced on a metal at a cap yard, a metal yard." "In the course of the search, I think initially the individuals there were arrested for handling ?" "40 worth of stolen copper piping." "Don't kid me off, mate, right?" "If you want to be serious, be serious." "He's asked me about receipts and I'm (BLEEP) showing them." "During the search they found details of an address nearby." "We promptly trooped across the road and starting searching these premises across the road which consisted of 42 big containers." "As soon as we opened up the containers it was an Aladdins cave of stolen goods." "On the top shelf there is a bundle of cash in elastic band on the right-hand side." "On the left-hand side there's another bundle of cash." "These are spoils of 18 different lorry thefts, plus a commercial burglary." "Plus there was a load of counterfeit goods." "It took us days to search the premises." "He arrested three men and seized around" "?" "2 million worth of stolen goods." "It was the remains of a much bigger haul." "Intelligence from a source in the criminal underworld told him he was now locking horns with organised crime." "I suddenly realised that all of that work we'd been doing, there was an organised crime group who were sitting above it all and looking down at what we were doing." "We thought it was stand-alone pieces of work." "In reality it was being directed from above." "He got his team together." "We put locks on the doors." "I sat them all down and explained to them, right, we are now investigating the biggest crime family in the UK." "Police intelligence linked the three arrested men to an organised crime group called the Hunt Syndicate." "The man at the top, David Hunt." "Mr Big in a grey suit with a reputation for extreme violence." "Here he is captured on CCTV at a course case about the ownership of the scrap yard where the raids started." "Dave McKelvey warned his team of young detectives." "You will get potentially followed." "They will undoubtedly make allegations against you." "There is nothing these people will not do against you." "He was right to be worried about taking on organised crime." "He knew they were ruthless." "But he didn't know that they had been corrupting police officers for more than a decade." "I was running a particularly high profile inform ant." "Who was getting top class information and about serious organised crime." "Frank Matthews doesn't want to be identified." "He had been running an inform ant at the heart of the Hunt syndicate." "He was passing intelligence on to a squad that was targeted organised crime." "When it reached the operational team it was not being actioned." "They were saying they hadn't received the information, that I hadn't passed the information on." "My suspicions then were that certain people were being protected." "It looked like serious criminals were being protected by the very same detectives who were supposed to be sending them to jail." "That team of officers, I believe, were corrupt and were actually in league with the team they were supposed to have been targeting." "He was right." "In 2002 a secret Met report called Tiberius warned that some officers were in the pay of crime groups like the Hunt syndicate." "It revealed how the relationship between police handler and criminal inform ant was vulnerable to corruption." "An inform ant will always try and vulnerable to corruption." "An inform ant will always try -- push the boundaries and try to get you to do things that are not in the rule book, maybe even against the law." "Unfortunately when they've overstepped the mark as such, there's no going back." "You cannot go back because now the inform ant is running the police officer." "Tiberius concluded that organised crime is currently able to infiltrate the" "Metropolitan Police Service at will." "Eight major crime syndicates between them had corrupt ready 22 former and 34 serving police officers." "It was so secret only the Met's most senior officers got to see it." "Front line detectives like Dave McKelvey were left in the dark." "You can see this little stretch here, the criminalality in this little stretch of road the other side and this site, incredible." "Back in East" "London he was building the case against the three men who were arrested after the scrap yard raid." "We thought we had hit the jackpot, we had identified the principal handlers." "We had got the people handling the stolen goods." "It looked like associates of the organised crime group, or OCG, had suffered an expensive setback." "When you look at what the Newham crime squad had achieved, they were chipping away at the outside of the OCG." "And doing it, from what I saw, a very good job." "We've been arrested for that little bit of tube..." "If the OCG are getting hot, they want to do something about it." "In January 2006, intelligence came in about what that something might be." "It is said there had been a meeting on a boat in Spain." "The meeting had been between the head of the organised crime group and one of the UK's most prolific contract killers." "A contract had been put together, a substantial contract for ?" "1 million, to kill three individuals." "In total, five intelligence sources said the same thing, but who was the target and when would it happen?" "The police had no idea." "It was Dave McKelvey who discovered answers from a petty criminal who knew the hitman." "He told Dave the hit was already in play." "A very well known contract killer had been sitting outside Stratford police station for a two-week period." "We were told what car he was sitting in and we were told that there was a sub-machine gun in a car parked down a road, and that individual had identified I think it was a 52 plate Mondeo, one" "of the police cars on the team." "I remember literally going cold, literally sitting there and just, you know, a moment of I suppose sheer terror." "And then a controlled panic sets in, because it's clear that this isn't going to happen in a week's time." "He's saying there's man sitting outside a police station now and he's got a machine gun to shoot dead one of my policemen." "I immediately left and I put a phone call in to his supervisor who I knew was with him and said, get him out." "The intelligence suggested they had the details, home addresses of two other policemen who they wanted to take out." "It was clear one of them was me." "Intelligence named the hitman as the leader of a London street gang." "I thought that the balloon would go up, bang, there would be, you know, firearms teams." "I thought there would be all sorts of things going on." "He says the threat wasn't taken seriously by senior officers." "There are set policies to deal with threat to life situations." "They didn't do anything." "They did absolutely nothing." "The hit was never carried out, but it continued to hang over Dave McKelvey and his team." "David Hunt says the intelligence about the hit was plainly not credible." "He says he's never been arrested or questioned about any alleged contract to kill." "He says he was never suspected of involvement with the stolen goods." "He accepts offering support to one of the arrested men but says none of them are his associates." "The three men arrested during the scrapyard raid were now awaiting trial." "The evidence against them was overwhelming." "We were heading towards, we thought, a plea of guilty." "One of the suspects was on remand in prison." "He didn't seem to be worried." "I had intelligence sources in the prison that I was being regularly fed intelligence on what that individual was saying." "The individual in prison was making arrangements for his wedding." "It was bizarre, because he knows that he's going to get off." "He's not going to get off." "How can he possibly get off?" "Did the criminals know something Dave McKelvey didn't?" "That" "Dave McKelvey was now under investigation himself." "David's style of policing, perhaps, didn't warm to everybody." "He could be described and was described as being Gene Hunt on speed." "Albert Patrick later reviewed the allegations against McKelvey." "So what was he being accused of." "I found that difficult to actually work out personally." "But they believed he had an unhealthy relationship with the people he was actually looking at andoring. -- and arresting." "The trial of the men arrested at the scrapyard was about to begin." "An anticorruption detective sent a dossier to Crown prosecutors." "It raised concerns about Dave McKelvey and his team." "There was an unease from me that a report was allowed to go to the CPS without anybody sanctioning it, without anybody at a higher level." "I never saw anything to say OK I'm the head of the anticorruption squad, I've approved this." "I never saw that." "The report so alarmed prosecutors they dropped the charges, the trial collapsed." "I remember at the time just thinking," "I'm being fitted up." "You just had nowhere to go." "You didn't know who to trust." "You didn't know who to believe." "Your world is turned upside down." "One way or another organised crime had prevailed." "It would be several years before Dave McKelvey discovered more about how things had gone so badly wrong." "There are now approximately 6,000 organised crime groups in the UK." "They cost the economy over ?" "24 billion a year." "To understand the route of today's corruption you have to rewind the clock to the backhanders of the past." "South London, the 1980s." "A different world." "The police had no morals." "Because they was working both sides of the fence." "Paul Goodrich grew newspaper Croydon." "He witnessed police corruption first hand." "Croydon was run by old bill." "That's why I went with villains because at least I knew what they was." "Down in" "Croydon they were trying to know what there was, you are didn't know the good guys from the bad guys." "I was talking to this officer once in a club, I was having an argument with him." "His exact words, he said," ""You think you've got a firm." "My firm's the biggest." "They're all dressed in blue." In short, you can't (BLEEP) with these people." "Paul Goodridge ran a private security company." "His best client was the actor Richard Harris." "He also counted some of London's most notorious criminals as his friends." "I've been with colourful people." "I've not done no business with them, right?" "But I knew them." "I knew them to drink with, associate with." "He says corrupt police were making money out of gangsters." "Some did, yeah." "It was rumoured and I believe the rumours, they used to hire out their warrant cards." "For a few hundred pounds, criminals could rob each other while posing as policemen." "Yeah, not once or twice." "It was a world of almost routine corruption." "Then an extraordinary event." "A murder unsolved to this day." "Daniel Morgan and Jonathan Reece were private detectives." "One would die, the other would become the prime suspect." "I had no reason to hate Daniel at all." "He was good at what he did." "We were salt and pepper-type characters." "We worked well." "We earned lots and lots of money." "And I lost lots of money when he died." "I mean, but I'm not worried about that now." "But I'm just saying that he was more use to me alive than dead." "And he was a friend." "In 1987 Daniel Morgan was found dead in a car park." "He'd been killed with an axe." "Did you kill Daniel Morgan or arrange for his murder?" "You're too clever for me." "You want an answer?" "I would like an answer, yeah." "No." "The murder remains mired in allegations of corruption and incompetence, which, to this day, have never been resolved." "The original inquiry team drafted in officers from the crime squad, based here at Catford police station." "We were a law unto ourselves, that Catford crime squad." "Thevillean didn't want to commit any crimes on Catford, because they know, you go to Catford, you're going to get fitted up." "If evidence is not forth coming but you know the person is guilty, it's just that it's just not there, then we would give it a helping hand to get a conviction." "We got the results, the crime rate fell, everyone was happy." "The man in charge of the Catford crime squad was detective sergeant Sid Fillery, Jonathan Rees' close friend." "Sid was like a king holding court - everything was done through" "Sid." "Sid could then sort it out with the senior officers." "The day after the murder Fillery was told to take a witness statement from Jonathan" "Rees." "He left the inquiry shortly afterwards." "Senior officers later became suspicious of Rees." "They believed he was the only person who knew where Daniel Morgan would be on the night he was murdered." "They made a dreadful mistake, on the day that they arrested me, and from then on, it wasn't an investigation to find the murder of Daniel." "It was an investigation to find anyone or anything to implicate me and just me in the murder of Daniel." "It become blinkered." "Sid Fillery was arrested." "Without any real evidence the cases were dropped." "Sid Fillery said the murder inquiry wasn't xrom iced." "He said he took his responsibilities on" "Catford crime squad seriously and his team were busy enough dealing with people they arrested without falsely creating evidence." "The Morgan murder ought to have been a wake-up call for the Met." "But it was another organisation all together that raised the alarm about police corruption." "A top-secret team, within Customs and Excise." "They were targeting big-time drug smugglers." "They were called Alpha." "Alpha was, probably still is, the telephone intercept section." "Until now, no customs officer has spoken publicly about its existence." "When he came into the organisation, you'd be given a payer to read about inception." "They read it and you'd be told you need to know about this but you need now to forget it." "It was very secret." "Within our organisation, very few officers ever worked there." "Very few officers ever knew where it was done, the physical premises, very few officers knew how it was done." "Alpha began as a small team and grew rapidly." "It was hugely successful." "I mean, it was absolutely critical to our success." "Officers worked in shifts." "Whenever the criminals were talking, they had to be listening." "You're getting into the heart and soul of the individual and their colleagues." "You're getting to understand them." "You're getting to understand their movements, what time they get up." "You're getting to understand who's important in their lives." "Of course, people don't say," ""I'm going to smuggle 50 kilos of cocaine next week." That's not how it works. 50 grand's worth." "That's it." "They'll say to a pal, have you got the shirts?" "The pal will say, "I think I'm getting them next week."" "That was intensive." "My hearing suffered as a result of it." "All those hours with head phones on?" "!" "Absolutely!" "By the end of the 1990s, cocaine busts had risen five-fold." "Heroin seizures more than doubled." "Millions and millions of pounds were at stake and it wasn't just drug dealers that Alpha could hear." "The most significant source of information about bent police officers came from telephone intercepts." "The range of criminality that police officers were involved in was everything from just having a drink from a so-called informant or," "I mean, in one or two cases, police officers being right at the heart of smuggling episodes." "At its peak, they were listening in to up to a dozen bent cops at any one time." "Alpha briefed senior officers at" "Scotland Yard." "Certainly the lower-grade detectives were almost indistinguishable, at some stages, from the criminals." "They were socially mixed up together in a way that's quite difficult to conceive." "We had intelligence at one stage of two criminals that were targets, place football for a Metropolitan Police football team, very hard to believe." "For the time I was there, at least six police officers were arrested." "But convicting them was extremely difficult." "It wasn't just" "Customs and Excise who were warning the Met about the scale of corruption." "So too was the Met's own internal auditor." "The Met employed 55,000 people when I was there." "If you employ 55,000 people, you're not going to have 55,000 totally honest people." "You're going to have some people who deliberately join because they're criminals." "Some people become criminals because of something that happens in their personal life." "It's the nature of the job." "Peter Tickner was brought in after the assistant director of finance had stolen ?" "5 million." "The end result of that was I got the job of head of audit at the Met and given the power to lock at everything." "He found out that contractors working for the Met were a Trojan horse for corruption." "I was contacted by a fellow head of audit of another Government department." "Department." "They had a problem with a dodgy works contractor who was paying bribes to a member of their staff." "When he started asking questions he was told the dodgy contractor wases will being employed by the Met." "I saw the head of corruption and he said I've been warning for some time they've been using dodgy contractors but nobody will listen on the support side." "A check was made on the home address of the director of intelligence He said, I won't get a replay." "That's the armed robber." "The Met had signed a ?" "1 million three-year contract with a maintenance company owned by a known criminal." "Criminal." "His workmen had access to police stations all across south-east London." "And it turned out they changed the DCI's notice board in robbery squad at Tower Bridge." "They also changed the locks on the cells in Tower Bridge and had done minor works and work in the offices of the police at Tower Bridge." "So God knows who they sent." "I hate to think." "Peter Tickner said he tried to raise his concerns with a senior officer." "It didn't go down well All the paperwork he had in front of him he threw at me, bang!" "Like that, and words to the effect of, you're not a detective, you are not a police officer, you are not trained in investigation and you have no right to investigate a police officer's job." "What the blank, blank, blank do you think you're doing, doing a police officer's job?" "Later he discovered the armed robber was passing information to an organised crime gang that was itself under police surveillance." "Of course, nobody talked to anybody inside the" "Met." "They were trying to nail the big villains in the South East." "They weren't interested that one of the villains had a works and maintenance contract with the Met." "Organised crime was getting a toehold and the" "Met was getting a bad reputation." "Customs didn't trust them." "MI6 didn't trust them." "MI5 didn't trust them." "Nobody trusted them." "That corruption problem wasn't confined to an individual officer here or there." "It impacted upon offices, squads, teams et cetera." "So this suggestion of corrupt networks." "It was obvious the Met had a problem it could no longer ignore, but it didn't know how big the problem was." "In 1994, the Met Commissioner ordered a top secret operation to get better intelligence." "If you're going to tackle corruption, particularly allegations of police corruption, you need to understand the nature of it, so you need to undertake a scoping and intelligence gathering operation to ascertain what the problem is." "If you don't get that, you're not going to know how best to investigate it." "So they wanted an underdiscover squad that could gather intelligence that could be used to try and nail these bustards." "The squad that would nail them was called CIB 3." "It was based in this now empty office block." "The detectives were hand-picked and became known as the Untouchables." "It was very confidential." "Even within the squads we worked in silos." "We didn't discuss jobs that we were involved in." "The scoping exercise identified a number of officers that were clearly involved or believed at the time to be involved." "The truth of the matter, they were serious organised criminals with police badges." "If you want a corruption of them, and we were set up to target them." "Two of its biggest targets were Kevin Garner and Terry McGuinness of the Met's elite Flying" "Squad." "McGuinness was one of my DCs on the Flying Squad." "He got caught in a sting operation where they went into a house and stole lots of drugs, a great investigation, all in camera." "They were caught bangs to rights." "Garner and McGuinness were arrested in 1996 trying to steal bid 400,000 worth of cannabis." "They confessed and came the first ever police supergrasses." "They named 80 officers they said were bent." "McGuinness made an allegation that the whole of the Flying Squad was corrupt." "Using supergrasses was controversial and it snared some very senior officers." "Including Albert Patrick, one of the Met's most respected murder detectives." "He was accused of stealing ?" "8,000 recovered from a Post Office robbery and using it to pay for a Christmas party. 31 years service and I'm getting accused of corruption." "Think about it." "It just didn't stack up." "At the time, Albert Patrick was in charge of Scotland Yard's most explosive case." "The murder of" "Stephen Lawrence." "Senior officers at Scotland Yard confirmed that Mr" "Patrick was being investigated in relation to a corruption inquiry at the Flying Squad's East London ifs where he worked before." "Ing the Flying Squad's East London ifs where he worked before. -- offices where he worked before." "The corruption allegations forced his removal." "I went on television that afternoon and said I would clear my name." "I did, six months later." "I cleared my name, but it hurt my wife." "It hurt my family." "It hurt my friends. 80 officers had been accused of corruption on the word of two bent cops." "Only five, including the supergrasses, ever went to jail." "It was innovation, new technique, and we made mistakes and we were criticised." "Do I think debriefing people and using them as witnesses is a good thing?" "In hindsight it probably wasn't the best technique but it gave an awful lot of information which was later went on to be corroborated." "At the height of the supergrass investigation, 165 detectives were fighting corruption." " 175 detectives were fighting corruption." "To me it was proportionate resources. 175 detectives aren't that many when you think how many major investigations we undertook." "One of those investigations was the decade-old murder of Daniel Morgan." "His former business partner, Jonathan Rees, was still a suspect." "Detective Sergeant" "Sid Fillery had left the police and was now working with him." "CIB 3 began a spying operation on the pair of them." "Theyen covered a bent cop and a plot against an innocent woman." "I remembered sitting in the van with all these policemen laughing and joking before they took me to the police station." "And I was under arrest, basically." "Kim jamgs didn't know what was happening or why, but didn't know what was happening or why, " " Kim James." "They had recruited a former detective to go undercover." "His job was to get close to Jonathan Rees, someone he used to know." "I said well, if I suppose I was going to go about it it would be along the lines if I was a disgruntled pissed off ex-placeman who had been treated badly." "He hates the police because he got locked up for his partner's murder, so I said that would be a good starting thing." "Rees fell for this approach." "So his" "CIB 3 handlers asked him..." "Could I steal it's office keys." "I said, what would be the point of that?" "He said, well then we've got access." "I said yeah, but if they lose a bunch of keys, what would you do if you lost your house keys?" "You would change all the locks." "He said, that's a point." "So I said, have you not heard of taking impressions of keys?" "I might be able to help you there?" "Why?" "Because that way they don't lose them and won't replace the locks." "He said, yeah, meet me at" "Gatwick Airport." "I will arrange to get you some key boxes." "They wanted the access to bug it up." "So then they could put the equipment in." "Really, that's what they did." "The Untouchables were listening 24-7. 7." "Jonathan Rees had a client involved in a custody battle." "Simon James paid Jonathan Rees to hut his wife, Kim, under surveillance." "Wife, paid Jonathan Rees to hut his wife, Kim, under surveillance. -- put his wife under surveillance." "The job was simple enough but he suspected and had been told by friends of hers she was mixing with the wrong people." "And that she was earning some extra income by dealing." "Jonathan Rees couldn't find any evidence Kim James was dealing drugs." "Because there wasn't any." "That didn't stop him." "He hatched another plan." "Steal her keys and put a camera in her flat." "It was all perfectly legal." "At worst a trespass." "We got the keys removed from her vehicle." "But when we tried to use them, the keys, we didn't have a key to the communal door, so that was the job dead in the water." "Simon James wanted sole custody of their son, Daniel." "He Simon James wanted sole custody of wife's home raided, so he and a Simon James wanted sole custody of wife's home raided, so he and -- so he paid a policeman ?" "1,500 wife's home raided, so he and -- so happen." "If he said, we've got this and happen." "If he said, we've got this happening, they would have told us to go away, they've got better things to do." "So we would have got a second class service, whereas by using this contact, we got a first class service." "He passed over that using this contact, we got a first information so the other side." "Were they breaking the law paying the police officers to do that?" "I wasn't, no." "Untouchables were listening in." "Their tape Untouchables were listening in." "was really going on." "Namely, plant cocaine in her car." "And this was being monitored." "The police officer Jonathan" "And this was being monitored." "The Warns." "He told another detective that Kim James would have drugs in her house that night." "Information from an informant that never existed." "He then fed these lies into the Met's criminal intelligence system." "Kim James was arrested." "They even looked in Daniel's bedroom." "They looked in his cot." "They strip searched me." "And then they didn't find anything." "So then they said, we are going to have to go and look in your car, and somebody shouted something, they had found a lot of drugs in my car." "They've said that it was cocaine, lots of it, enough for me to have been given a lengthy prison sentence." "Detective constable Austin Warns plead guilty and was jailed for four years." "Simon James had paid Jonathan Rees ?" "8,000 to set up his wife." "They were both sentenced to seven years for conspiring to pervert the course of justice." "I really still to this day feel sorry for her." "She is raided by the police." "Of course it was never going to go anywhere." "It wasn't cocaine." "It was all corruption." "Despite his conviction, Jonathan Rees still denies he plotted to put cocaine in Kim James' car and that he corrupted a police officer." "Corruption is if you get someone to do something that they shouldn't do or get someone not to do something that they should do." "He was asked and tasked to do something that he should do." "We are asking him to take time off from his normal work or put himself out to spend time and pass on this information to get us that first class service." "Haslem, Daniel, the son Kim James came close to losing, is now 18." "She says if the plot to jail her succeeded, she wouldn't be here today." "I probably would have ended my life, because there's no way that" "I would have been able to stay in prison knowing that my son was with somebody who could do that to them and knowing that when I got out, there was no way I'd be able to see him." "The surveillance lasted nearly a year." "It rescued Kim James from a plot to frame her and found evidence of police corruption, but the probes hadn't captured any new evidence about the murder of Daniel Morgan." "In 2011, after yet another investigation, Jonathan Rees was formally acquitted of murder." "He and" "Sid Fillery are now suing the Met." "If you tried to write that story in a novel, people would say it was so far fetched it couldn't conceivably be true." "And yet it was." "CIB 3 had disrupted networks of bent cops and sent the message that corruption wouldn't be tolerated." "But it was costing millions." "There was definitely an issue in that money had to be saved, money was tight." "The heroic days, if you like, of professional standards were over." "The people who'd trail blazed the new techniques and a real concerted push against corruption, that was finished." "We needed a more sustainable model." "Stephen Roberts was the first senior officer to calculate how much it cost to send a bent cop to prison." "Certainly in the hundreds of thousands." "It was in the high hundreds of thousands." "That clearly wasn't sustainable." "Not simply because we couldn't afford that sort of money any more." "But because it was very obvious that there were more targets, more potential targets and there would be no question of tackling that number at that price per head." "Prosecutions could drag on for years." "Officers suspended on full pay." "We might be paying them after the public -- out of the public purse for two years." "We said, well, isn't there anything we can do to short circuit this?" "We came up with what, at first, I have to say seemed like a rather silly idea - why don't we just call them, in tell them off and tell them that we don't love them any more." "They decided to write to corrupt officers suggesting they resign." "Officers were told that when their case came to court, their contrition might be taken into account by the judge." "It became known as the 23p initiative, the cost of a second class stamp." "To our surprise, I have to say, everybody that we tried it on and there were well over a dozen in the first year, there and then signed the letter of resignation that was offered to them." "It was so successful, that we started to work out how much it was saving us." "It came to millions." "That comparison between the Rolls Royce of the good old days and the Mini now." "Rolls" "Royces are great, but if you can't afford the petrol they don't get you very far." "You can go a long way in a Mini." "Might not be as comfortable, it might not accelerate as well, but it gets you a long way." "The glory days of the untouchables were over." "But the threat from the corrupting influence of organised crime was not." "Dave McKelvey's crime squad had been neutralised, he believes, by organised crime." "Do you miss it?" "Yeah." "If I had the choice, I'd be doing it still." "I would never have given it up." "He and his team had been threatened with a ?" "1 million hit, put under investigation for corruption and Dave McKelvey himself had been suspended." "I'd gone from being a very successful, well-respected detective Chief Inspector, quite a senior policeman, you know, who was out working at the coal face, nicking villains and putting them behind bars, to suddenly - my house is being" "searched." "Albert Patrick, former of the head of the Lawrence inquiry was asked by the Met to look at what had happened to Dave McKelvey and his team." "The first and most important recommendation, I think you'd find was that the investigation against" "Dave McKelvey and two of his colleagues was flawed." "Mistakes were made and it should never have happened." "One of those mistakes involved suspicion abouts an officer called Corrupt Dave." "These suspicions had already been checked out." "It wasn't Dave McKelvey." "He'd been investigated covertly." "They knew as a result of another operation we were completely exonerated." "They knew categorically we were clean." "Corrupt Dave was a completely different officer, based at a completely different police station." "Yet suspicion was raised again about Dave McKelvey in the corruption investigation that was found to be fatally flawed." "The original intention was to take us out." "I think what happened, the events that then followed, they didn't have to kill us." "Effectively they used the system against us." "He believes his investigation into organised crime had been deliberately derailed, but he can't prove it." "The end result of that is two major trials get dropped that cost the public millions and millions of pounds and criminals, organised crime are able to carry on their corrupt relationships, you know, people walk free that should" "never have walked free." "Albert Patrick is certain the investigation into Dave McKelvey was incompetent, whether or not it was corrupt, he's more cautious." "When you put it all together, for me, there was clearly a view that OCG had actually achieved what their aim was, not by killing the cop, if it was McKelvey, but by having the prisoners" "discontinued at trial." "Did that happen because of corruption or because of a bit of luck on their behalf and you had a poor investigation?" "I won't give an answer to that." "I don't have enough accurate information or seen enough documentation to give a view either way." "The Met says organised crime remains its single biggest corruption threat." "We are an organisation that probably deals with more organised crime group investigations than any other that you are likely to find, certainly in this country." "We are absolutely alive to the threat that organised crime groups pose and absolutely alive to the fact that any decent, sensible organised crime group will be trying to corrupt police officers." "The Met also says it's changed the way it works to make it harder for organised crime to corrupt police officers." "What we have now, the levels of control and the levels of oversight, it's a very difficult environment for somebody to knock a job off track." "Dave McKelvey's career was finished." "The detective who'd been awarded 60 commendations left the Met suffering a break down." "I just literally fell to pieces." "I was unwell, very unwell." "It was, you know, it was over." "My career was over." "Dave McKelvey sued the Met." "They settled, apologised but won't comment on his case." "Since leaving the police, Dave McKelvey's seen more evidence that organised crime could have compromised his investigations." "From the Met's secret report Tiberius." "Named police officers, involved in corruption, and particularly involved in corrupt relationships with this particular, same organised criminal network, and yet nothing was done about them." "One name jumped out." "An officer in his squad who'd seen sensitive intelligence about the Hunt crime syndicate." "When we started our operation off, we should have been told." "We should have been made aware of all that." "They've got to the point where they know all the tactics that are used by police." "David Hunt says he can't comment on the Tiberius report, as he's not seen it." "He says he doesn't have an organised crime group." "He's not a corrupter of police officers, and as far as he's aware, he doesn't know anyone who is." "Organised crime makes billions, the cost of protecting empires - a few bent cops." "People think that corruption in the Police" "Service is cyclical." "It's not." "It's the response to corruption that's cyclical." "If you can protect your group, your syndicate, your organisation and you can use a bent cop to do it, they will do it." "That's in their nature." "You'll probably never stop it." "Simple as that, you will never stop it." "For Dave McKelvey, the threat from organised crime isn't going away either." "I've got two choices:" "I could go away and crawl under a rock and hide and leave scared." "Or I can hope and pray that someone out there is going to do something about the corruption that we uncovered and they do something about organised crime." "Dave McKelvey fought a battle against organised criminals and he lost." "No-one pretends that the war between the police and crime gangs over corruption will ever end." "The question is the same as it's always been - who's moats determined to win it?" " most determined to win it?"