Red Tamarin’s police informant has described to him how the Levy arrest and the whole loans for peerages investigation appears to those working on the force.
There is apparently a significant amount of internal politics in the top echelons of the Met Police, with the Assistant Commissioners and Deputy Assistant Commissioners jockeying for position in the hope of replacing the embattled Sir Ian Blair, the Met Police Commissioner.
John Yates, the man leading the loans for peerages investigation, is a Deputy Assistant Commissioner himself and so right up there with the rest of them. It is considered that he won’t be next in line to replace Ian Blair, but that he is doing the groundwork and may be ready to take over from Blair’s successor.
Red Tamarin’s friendly copper suggests that with promotion still a few years away, Yates has nothing to lose by pursuing a thorough investigation at Labour’s expense. If he’s betting on a change of government, it would go a long way to ameliorating the fact that he led the investigation that finally charged Jeffrey Archer successfully.
This could well be described as force-d perspective
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John Yates is a Deputy Assistant Commisioner. This appears to be the only accurate part of your desperate defence of Levy, Carter and Blair. The post of D.A.C is three rungs down on the ladder from Commissioner: below Deputy Commissioner and Assistant Commissoner but above Commander. As such, Yates has as much chance of replacing Sir Ian Blair,or even his successor, as there is of your ‘police informant’ being anything more than blogger’s license.
SERO said this on July 14th, 2006 at 3:47 pm