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Good evening. BBC London has obtained two confidential documents | :00:19. | :00:23. | |
into alleged police corrupthon. The intelligence reports detail how | :00:24. | :00:27. | |
officers from the elite Flyhng Squad were suspected of a conspir`cy to | :00:28. | :00:29. | |
kidnap. They allegedly planned to hold the victim for a ?50,000 | :00:30. | :00:34. | |
ransom. Sources claim that the files were part of the mass shredding of | :00:35. | :00:39. | |
documents at Scotland Yard hn 2 02. The Met say it's confident that it | :00:40. | :00:41. | |
has intelligence on all the officers named in the reports. Glen Campbell | :00:42. | :00:50. | |
has this exclusive report. They're the files into suspdcted | :00:51. | :00:52. | |
police corruption that an official enquiry would have wanted to have | :00:53. | :00:55. | |
seen. The problem was thous`nds of documents were thought to h`ve been | :00:56. | :00:59. | |
shredded by The Met. It was highly embarrassing when it was revealed. I | :01:00. | :01:02. | |
have decided that a public dnquiry led by a judge is necessary. But BBC | :01:03. | :01:07. | |
London has obtained copies of two of the documents we've been told were | :01:08. | :01:12. | |
destroyed in that shredding. We understand Scotland Yard has today | :01:13. | :01:15. | |
found one version of these files but not both. So what do they contain? | :01:16. | :01:23. | |
Well, the contents are shocking What these files outline is a | :01:24. | :01:26. | |
suspected plot by Flying Sqtad officers to abduct the girlfriend of | :01:27. | :01:29. | |
a security manager, forcing him to steal ?50,000 to secure her release. | :01:30. | :01:34. | |
The technique is called a Thger Kidnap. This is how it all started. | :01:35. | :01:44. | |
Mid`1990s, a woman is kidnapped Her partner, a security manager, gets a | :01:45. | :01:47. | |
ransom demand for ?50,000 to secure her release. To free his girlfriend, | :01:48. | :01:50. | |
he fills a suitcase with thd company's cash and hands it over to | :01:51. | :01:59. | |
the criminals. In the days `fter the robbery, officers from the Flying | :02:00. | :02:02. | |
Squad were called in to invdstigate and according to the intellhgence | :02:03. | :02:05. | |
files, it was those enquirids by Flying Squad officers that spawned a | :02:06. | :02:07. | |
corrupt plot to simply repe`t the same Tiger Kidnap again, evdn | :02:08. | :02:10. | |
targeting the same security manager and his girlfriend. According to the | :02:11. | :02:12. | |
documents, weeks before the Flying Squad kidnap was to take pl`ce, | :02:13. | :02:15. | |
anti`corruption officers at Scotland Yard got wind of the alleged | :02:16. | :02:17. | |
conspiracy and an undercover investigation was launched, | :02:18. | :02:18. | |
codenamed Operation Grant. It was only then that the khdnap | :02:19. | :02:50. | |
plot was thwarted. Alistair Morgan's brother Daniel was murdered in 987 | :02:51. | :03:03. | |
in a South London car park. He was about to blow the whistle on police | :03:04. | :03:09. | |
corruption. One of the Flying Squad officers suspected of corruption in | :03:10. | :03:12. | |
the Tiger Kidnap plot was friendly with those suspected of murdering | :03:13. | :03:16. | |
Daniel Morgan. Obviously high`end, serious police corruption. @nd the | :03:17. | :03:24. | |
fact that it's been shredded is again, outrageous I think. Why has | :03:25. | :03:30. | |
this been kept in the dark for so long? And, is this a widespread | :03:31. | :03:36. | |
phenomenon? How much else h`s been hidden, how much else has bden | :03:37. | :03:41. | |
buried? I knew there were officers stealing drugs, there were rumours | :03:42. | :03:45. | |
about officers on the Flying Squad being corrupt. But I didn't know | :03:46. | :03:47. | |
that they were involved in this sort of activity. Yesterday, BBC London | :03:48. | :03:52. | |
managed to contact the security manager's girlfriend, the woman the | :03:53. | :03:55. | |
Flying Squad officers allegddly planned to kidnap. When we told her | :03:56. | :04:03. | |
that she was in these Metropolitan Police intelligence files, she was | :04:04. | :04:06. | |
totally shocked and said shd'd now look into trying to sue the police. | :04:07. | :04:19. | |
Our home affairs corresponddnt, Guy Smithis here. So what is Thd Met | :04:20. | :04:25. | |
saying? Sources say potentially both | :04:26. | :04:29. | |
documents were shredded but one of them has been found on a colputer | :04:30. | :04:33. | |
database. It appears The Met are not overly concerned because thd | :04:34. | :04:38. | |
intelligence was backed up `nd not lost. They were aware of thd | :04:39. | :04:42. | |
suspected corrupt officers `nd at least one of them has been | :04:43. | :04:48. | |
convicted. Do we know if thhs information was given to thd review | :04:49. | :04:52. | |
into the Stephen Lawrence mtrder investigation? They say, we made | :04:53. | :04:58. | |
every effort possible to supply all of the relevant records to the | :04:59. | :05:02. | |
independent review. To supply details of every anti`corruption | :05:03. | :05:09. | |
investigation in the 1990s would have been impossible. Does this show | :05:10. | :05:14. | |
their record`keeping was poor? It is a graphic example the mess the | :05:15. | :05:21. | |
record`keeping was in. The recent independent review described it as | :05:22. | :05:26. | |
chaotic. Multiple filing systems, records were in complete and files | :05:27. | :05:32. | |
were destroyed. I understand The Met have been ringing round ex`officers | :05:33. | :05:38. | |
trying to find out what thex knew about the shredding. It shows The | :05:39. | :05:41. | |
Met has perhaps lost control of this. The most damaging thing is the | :05:42. | :05:47. | |
drip effect and what else whll emerge. The problem for us `nd the | :05:48. | :05:52. | |
public now is they may never know the true extent of corruption in The | :05:53. | :05:59. | |
Met during the 1990s. Many thanks. Three female tourists have suffered | :06:00. | :06:03. | |
serious head and facial injtries after they were attacked in their | :06:04. | :06:06. | |
hotel room by a man with a hammer. It happened in a bedroom at the | :06:07. | :06:09. | |
Cumberland Hotel in Marble @rch where the women and three children | :06:10. | :06:12. | |
were sleeping in adjoining rooms. One woman's in a critical condition. | :06:13. | :06:17. | |
The Prime Minister today pahd tribute to flood`hit victims who | :06:18. | :06:19. | |
helped their communities with the clean`up operation. Among those | :06:20. | :06:23. | |
invited to Downing Street w`s Alison Griffiths who was pivotal to the | :06:24. | :06:27. | |
relief effort in Sunbury. D`vid Cameron told her he would look into | :06:28. | :06:30. | |
her concerns about lack of dredging in the River Thames. | :06:31. | :06:35. | |
That's it from me, but I'll hand you over to Wendy for the weathdr. | :06:36. | :06:37. | |
Goodnight. Good evening. We had some lhvely | :06:38. | :06:49. | |
whether to end the day during the rush hour. That has cleared towards | :06:50. | :06:54. | |
the east. It is becoming drher and brighter from now on. That starts | :06:55. | :07:01. | |
overnight, the drier bit at least. Clear skies, bits and pieces of | :07:02. | :07:07. | |
patchy cloud. A bit of a brdeze blowing and temperatures will fall | :07:08. | :07:10. | |
down to four degrees outsidd of London to something like six or | :07:11. | :07:15. | |
seven degrees in urban areas. We may have a few showers tomorrow, but | :07:16. | :07:22. | |
there will be plenty of sunshine and it will be bright and breezx | :07:23. | :07:25. | |
throughout and temperatures will be average for the time of year, | :07:26. | :07:32. | |
getting up to around 14 degrees Unsettled conditions through the | :07:33. | :07:35. | |
next few days. A bit of rain around on Friday but with more on that I | :07:36. | :07:40. | |
will hand you over to Nina Ridge. The weekend brought some mild | :07:41. | :07:48. | |
nights. Signs of a change across Northern Ireland and Scotland, but | :07:49. | :07:52. | |
for England and Wales many places began the day at ten to 13 | :07:53. | :07:53. |