{"id":113542,"date":"2019-10-07T16:00:43","date_gmt":"2019-10-07T14:00:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/2019\/10\/07\/the-police-watchdogs-inaction-over-the-vip-child-abuse-inquiry-is-a-disgrace-simon-jenkins\/"},"modified":"2019-10-07T16:00:43","modified_gmt":"2019-10-07T14:00:43","slug":"the-police-watchdogs-inaction-over-the-vip-child-abuse-inquiry-is-a-disgrace-simon-jenkins","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/?p=113542","title":{"rendered":"The police watchdog\u2019s inaction over the VIP child abuse inquiry is a disgrace | Simon Jenkins"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Despite Operation Midland\u2019s multiple failures, the Independent Office for Police Conduct has exonerated all concernedThe details revealed last week from a 2016 report by retired judge Richard Henriques that castigated the Metropolitan police over its \u201cVIP sex ring\u201d investigation beggared belief. That disbelief is now compounded by today\u2019s ruling from the Independent Office for Police Conduct (IOPC), which has exonerated all those involved. It is bad enough that a former high court judge can think senior police officers guilty of gross, and indeed criminal, misconduct, and their supervisors of \u201clamentable, inexcusable\u201d neglect. That not one officer involved in \u201cone of the most error-ridden investigations in history\u201d has been held to account is worse. But that the IOPC, supposedly charged with monitoring the police, should emerge as its lackey is incredible. Related: Met officers will not face action over VIP child abuse inquiry Continue reading&#8230;<br \/>\nVia: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/commentisfree\/2019\/oct\/07\/police-watchdog-vip-child-abuse-inquiry\" target=\"_blank\">The police watchdog\u2019s inaction over the VIP child abuse inquiry is a disgrace | Simon Jenkins<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Despite Operation Midland\u2019s multiple failures, the Independent Office for Police Conduct has exonerated all concernedThe details revealed last week from a 2016 report by retired judge Richard Henriques that castigated the Metropolitan police over its \u201cVIP sex ring\u201d investigation beggared belief. That disbelief is now compounded by today\u2019s ruling from [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-113542","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-english"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/113542","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=113542"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/113542\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=113542"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=113542"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=113542"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}