Operation Tiberius was a 2002 internal Metropolitan Police investigation, leaked to The Independent in 2014. It found that criminal organisations had used Freemasonry connections to "recruit corrupt officers".[1] The Metropolitan Police acknowledged that it was borne of other investigations, but described it as a new strategic approach to corruption, rather than a single operation.[2]
The Parliamentary Home Affairs Committee has published a redacted copy of a summary of the investigation, with a lengthy annexe detailing other earlier corruption investigations, especially Operation Russell.[3][4] It investigated the charge that certain "organised criminals" were able to infiltrate Scotland Yard by bribery.[5] 19 former and 42 then serving officers were investigated for alleged corruption.[5] It has been claimed that the Metropolitan Police suffered "endemic corruption" and given the small number of convictions, doubt has been expressed over whether this police force has extirpated the problem.[6]
The report concluded that the infiltration was one of "the most difficult aspects of organised crime corruption to proof against".[7]
Some of Britain’s most dangerous organised crime syndicates were able to infiltrate New Scotland Yard "at will".[5]
Allegations of evidence tampering, interference with the pursuit of criminal suspects by other forces, and close cooperation between senior police officers and master criminals, particularly those involved in illicit drugs and prostitution, have been raised.[8] Charges that jurors were bought off or threatened to return not-guilty verdicts, corrupt individuals working for HMRC, both in the UK and overseas, and "get out of jail free cards" being bought for £50,000 are also cited in the report.[5]
I feel that at the current time I cannot carry out an ethical murder investigation without the fear of it being compromised.
Unnamed MPS Senior Investigating Officer, currently attached to SO 1(3), cited in the Independent's report [5]
^Harper, Tom (2014-01-13). "Revealed: How gangs used the Freemasons to corrupt police". The Independent. Retrieved 2024-01-01.
^"Integrity in Policing" (PDF). Metropolitan Police official website. 2014-07-15. Retrieved 2014-12-13.
^House of Commons Home Affairs Committee. "Operation Tiberius" (PDF). House of Commons Official website. Retrieved 2014-12-13.
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Dodd, Vikram (2012-05-31). "Stephen Lawrence murder: Met police report finds no evidence of corruption". Guardian. Retrieved 2014-12-13.
^ abcdeHarper, Tom (2014-01-10). "The corruption of Britain: UK's key institutions infiltrated by criminals". The Independent. independent.co.uk. Archived from the original on 2022-05-24. Retrieved 2014-12-13.
^Harper, Tom (10 January 2014). "Scotland Yard's rotten core". The Independent. independent.co.uk. Archived from the original on 2022-05-24. Retrieved 10 January 2014.
^Harper, Tom (13 January 2014). "Revealed: How gangs used the Freemasons to corrupt police". The Independent. independent.co.uk. Archived from the original on 2022-05-24. Retrieved 17 February 2014.
^"Case studies: Operation Tiberius uncovers corruption in the Met". The Independent. independent.co.uk. 2014-01-09. Archived from the original on 2022-05-24. Retrieved 2014-12-13.
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