Where there’s corruption, there’s a cover-up

In the wake of the current shame associated with the undercover activities of the Metropolitan police, journalists have made the point that no police force will ever be free of corrupt officers. Maybe they should go on to point out that the present government’s back-door ban on coppers talking to the Press, post Leveson, is part of a strategy to prevent corruption from being exposed so that the government of the day can pretend that there is none.