Crime is bad, mmmmmkay?

Unless you happen to be in the Metropolitan police that is.

This story has hardly been reported in the press, and I really am at a loss as to why.

One in three of the 3,533 officers who were issued with the corporate credit cards misued them and at one point £3.7million of public money was missing.

One in three! That's pretty impressive! But to be fair to the Met, they have taken action; 3 out of the 1177 officers whom committed credit card fraud have been prosecuted. Three.

That's quite some clear-up rate.

Maybe it goes some way to explaining why the met did absolutely nothing about the fraud committed by their buddies in parliament.

A big well-done to the police.

This story's got everything! Lezzas, car crashes, domestic violence, PSD complaints, fraud, and er, donuts.

Normal service will be resumed shortly...

Compare and contrast

Last week, Inspector Knacker of the Yard announced that the Met police are finally to investigate some of the fraudulent expense claims made by MPs.

As I write this, precisely nothing has been done; no MPs have been arrested , no offices have been raided, no IT equipment seized, no nothing. This is also about a month after the Torygraph started exposing MPs' astonishing troughing.

Now contrast this with the Damien Green debacle, where the opposition MP was arrested after having his office raided by 6 Met coppers (without a warrant, of course).

Now of course Damien Green was not alleged to have stolen a fortune off of the taxpayer, he was alleged to have leaked documents to the press that were very embarrassing to the government. Much worse. Get in there plod!

If we compare the incredibly zealous and fast-acting police action taken against Green with the complete inaction of the Met with regards to the thieving cheating MPs, I think it paints a good picture of how the police view the taxpayer as opposed to their political masters.

What really worries me, is that the police can't see the difference in these two cases, or why the public were outraged with Green getting done-over by the Labour party's paramilitary wing, but were pissed off with the very same police 'service' happily turning a blind eye to MPs stealing from the public purse. The normally semi-sensible Inspector Gadget just couldn't get his head around it. In that post he boasts about how the police have heroically tackled that nasty Green, but up until the Met's announcement he and his fellow plods were absolutely adamant that no MPs should face action for their fraud.
Hmmmm, there must be a bit of work involved in those fraud investigations....

That worries me.