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Tuesday, April 14, 2009

Candid Camera

Well, here's a thing: the Independent Police Complaints Commission has discovered that its chair, Nick Hardwick, said the thing that was not when he claimed that there were no CCTV cameras in the area where Ian Tomlinson was assaulted. The IPCC became acquainted with the existence of the cameras after pictures of them were published, which speaks well for its openness to new evidence if not for its investigative talents. The IPCC said that Hardwick "believed he was correct in [his] assertion", despite the apparent fact that the IPCC had spent a week looking at "many hours of CCTV" in order to prove, if not the innocence, then at least the solitarily-isolational rotten-applitude of the zealous boy in blue who did the usual splendid job under highly stressful circumstances. It appears, then, since lying is out of the question, that Hardwick belongs either to the Boris Johnson school of hands-off (or "oblivious", as it is also known) management, or to the Cressida Dick school of operational competence.

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