11/06/2014 BBC London News

of that interview with Pele on BBC One at 10:35pm.

Good evening and welcome to BBC London News, with me Asad Ahmad.

A secret report into widespread corruption among some Metropolitan

Police detectives over a decade ago can be revealed tonight.

The document claims more th`n 4 officers were working with crime

syndicates linked to offencds including murders

Tonight a senior MP said he'll be contacting Scotland Yard to find

out why the contents of the report hadn't been made public earlier

Our home affairs corresponddnt Guy Smith has this special report.

And five more pages with very little detail

about how organised crime sxndicates infiltrated Scotland Yard.

That's all that the Met Polhce wanted MPs to know.

But BBC London can reveal mtch more ` that there are 180 pages

of top`secret intelligence about how criminals bribed police

officers to evade justice, about drug deals, armed robberies,

The document, called Operation Tiberius, shows just how

bad the problem of police corruption had become in some areas of London.

A secret Scotland Yard unit identified 42 serving officdrs as

corrupt, 19 ex`officers and the same number of career criminals linked to

Organised crime is currentlx able to infiltrate the

Existing murder investigations have been compromised.

Sensitive intelligence has been leaked and the syndicates continue

to flourish and gain confiddnce in their ability to evade prosecution.

Tony Harris was the chairman of the now`defunct

`` Toby Harris. It acted as a watchdog, overseeing and

He says the Met at the time reassured him they had

Either senior officers were unbelievably complacent `

they weren't asking the right questions, they weren't being told

the situation ` or alternatively a deliberate decision was takdn that

it would be inappropriate to draw attention to just how weakened

A deliberate intention, if xou like, almost to mislead

Well, the crime syndicate is the customer.

They have a so`called conduit, more commonly known as a go`betwden.

In most cases, this is an ex`detective who has

close contacts with serving officers who, in turn, have access to

sensitive intelligence and the Met's valuable databases.

The conduit is often the only one who knows the customer.

One reason given in the doctment is that it distances key members of a

But one of the most disturbing statements in this document is

I feel that at the current time I cannot carry out an ethical murder

investigation without the fear it being compromisdd.

To be perfectly frank, it was quite possible to give us

this information in the publication without the names of the officers.

We weren't interested in the names, we were interested in the extent

of the problem of corruption and what the Metropolitan Police

So I'm extremely disappointed and I will be writing to the

The full scale of corruption is unknown

but it provides a disturbing insight into the threat to the criminal

Guy is with me now. What are the Metropolitan Police saying? Well, to

be fair to them, they have hnvited be fair to them, they have hnvited

MPs to read a full, unredacted copy of the document in private but say

they won't discuss it in public for obvious reasons. They don't want to

compromise their sources, their tactics or current investig`tions. I

asked them a series of questions earlier. Firstly, how many

individuals in the document had they prosecuted or convicted over ten

years? They could give exact numbers. I asked them how confident

they are that the level of corruption is not still ongoing.

they are that the level of corruption is not still ongoing In

corruption is not still ongoing. In a statement, they say that the

nature of corruption within the Met has changed over the last decade but

has changed over the last ddcade but they still have up to six live

anti`corruption investigations running at any one time. They say

they're determined to tackld running at any one time. Thdy say

they're determined to tackld current corrupt staff. Guy Smith, thank you.

Part of central London came to a standstill today over a smartphone

up. Cabbies are angry what they say is a lack of action by Transport for

London over the app Uber. Central London became

a car park this afternoon as cabbies We've got a right needle

on this one, guv. We're all sticking together

on this. This is going to spread all over

the country. It's not just London,

it's everyone's problem. The Met used public order

legislation to restrict this demonstration to just Whitehall

for one hour but there was still widespread gridlock right

across central London. The reason all these cab drivers are

here today is because Transport for London refuses to enforce

their own laws. Some of the anger comes

from Transport for London licensing this

smartphone app, Uber. Cabbies believe its systems are

in effect, meters for minicabs and by law, Hackney carriages are

the only ones that can use those. TfL says it licensed Uber

after a compliance check. It does, though, want changds to

the website to make it clear Should you have licensed them

if they're not complying with your They are complying with

the rules. You just

said they're not. No, what I said was, there `re some

things in the terms and conditions which thetrade have said to us,

and people have said to us, isn t We agree with that, Uber London

agrees with that and we are working Uber says it complies with

legislation and is bringing The issue will end up in thd

High Court. The whole industry is now facing

big changes driven by technology. That's it from me for tonight. Time

to hand you over to Chris for the weather.

It wasn't bad today but we'll do better for tomorrow. Tonight it

stays dry and clear with temperatures just gradually drifting

down to around 50 `` 15 degrees in the centre of town so not a cold

night. Tomorrow, more sunshine and a night. Tomorrow, more sunshine and a

warmer days so it's time to dig out the sunglasses. Clear skies to start

the day. A bit of cloud in the afternoon but look at temperatures

rocketing upwards with highs or 26 in the centre of London as we head

through the afternoon. That will get really close to being the warmest

really close to being the w`rmest day of the year. So more warm

sunshine on Friday but with the risk of a late storm, it turns a bit

fresher into the weekend. of a late storm, it turns a bit

fresher into the weekend. On the eve of the World Cup, there

was a bit of Brazil in Bridlington today because Bridlington on the

east Yorkshire Coast shared the same top temperature as the Brazilian

city of Sao Paulo, 22 degrees. That is as the weather settles down

across the UK as this area of high pressure comes in. It's still with

us at the weekend but its position will have changed slightly, changing

the weather for some of us as a result, as we'll see in a moment.

For the rest of tonight, it is dry and mainly clear. There will be some

patchy mist and fog forming in south-west England and Wales, which

will create weekly in the morning, and amateurs will fall away in the

larger towns and city centres and in the countryside, six or seven.

Northern Ireland will stay dry but in