Operation Alice was tainted from beginning to end by a "corrupt relationship" between Deborah Glass and the Metropolitan Police

Operation Alice, the Metropolitan Police investigation into the Downing Street aspect of the Plebgate affair, was tainted from beginning to end.

Throughout the period of Operation Alice Deborah Glass, the then Deputy Chair of the Independent Police Complaints Commission, was under investigation by the Metropolitan Police for allegedly perverting the course of justice in a case which relates, in one of its aspects, to child sexual offences.

Operation Alice was under the supervision of Ms. Glass.

Ms. Glass should have recused herself from any involvement in all investigations involving the Metropolitan Police Service during the period when she was under investigation for alleged perversion of the course of justice.

It was wholly improper for Ms. Glass to investigate misconduct and/or criminal allegations regarding the Metropolitan Police while the Metropolitan Police were investigating Ms. Glass.

The Metropolitan Police Crime Reference Number for the allegation that Ms. Glass perverted the course of justice was CRIS2314237/12.

The following abbreviated timeline is from a more extensive document that I created in June 2014. Those interested in further information may obtain a copy of the full timeline by contacting me via Twitter:
@DrAndrewWatt

For legal reasons, below I use the term "Mr. X" to refer to the person who made the complaint that Deborah Glass perverted the course of justice.

• On 28th March 2012 allegations were made to Inspector Gary Randall of the Metropolitan Police that Deborah Glass, then Deputy Chair of the Independent Police Complaints Commission, had inter alia perverted the course of justice with respect to a case which at its heart involved alleged child sexual offences and serious Police misconduct and/or criminality
• A Crime Reference Number CRIS2314237/12 was subsequently allocated.
• For several months the Metropolitan Police seemed to be dragging their feet on the investigation of the allegations regarding Deborah Glass.
• No later than 3rd August 2012 the Commissioner's Office and the Deputy Commissioner's Office were made aware of the allegations regarding Deborah Glass
• On 19th September 2012 the Plebgate incident took place in Downing Street
• On 1st October 2012 the Directorate of Professional Standards of the Metropolitan Police wrote to Mr. X asking him to make a witness statement. A response was requested from Mr. X by 12th October.
• On 12th October 2012 the SuttonColdfieldGate aspect of Plebgate took place, involving Inspector KenMackaill, Detective Sergeant Stuart Hinton and Sergeant Chris Jones
• The Metropolitan Police investigation into Deborah Glass was transferred to Detective Inspector Holt and Detective Sergeant Smithson
• On 30th November 2012 Detective Inspector Holt and Detective Constable Carr met with Mr. X to take a statement.
• In December 2012 Operation Alice began (or was refocussed) following the Channel 4 Despatches programme using CCTV from Downing Street on 19th September 2012.
• In July 2013 IPCC-funded lawyers threatened a national newspaper with a lawsuit if they were to publish information regarding what I term the "corrupt relationship" between Deborah Glass and the Metropolitan Police 
• I am told (but have not yet been able to confirm) that a second national newspaper was threatened with a writ or was subject to an injunction regarding a proposed article regarding the "corrupt relationship". The date of this alleged threat is unclear.
• 8th August 2013 Mr. X asked that the investigation of Ms. Glass be transferred to an independent Police force
• 9th September 2013 Mr. X was informed that Commander Allan Gibson, then head of the Directorate of Professional Standards in the Metropolitan Police, has decided that the investigation of Ms. Glass should stay with the Metropolitan Police
• 26th November 2013 the Metropolitan Police informed Mr. X that no action will be taken against Ms. Glass
• Also on 26th November 2013 the result of Operation Alice was announced.

In my view Deborah Glass should have recused herself from any involvement in Operation Alice as soon as she became aware that she was under investigation for allegedly perverting the course of justice.

Ms. Glass did not recuse herself from involvement in Operation Alice.

Further, it appears that Ms. Glass was given public funds by the IPCC to suppress public awareness of the "corrupt relationship" between herself and the Metropolitan Police.

Notice too that it was days after Plebgate that CRIS2314237/12 moved from inaction to an urgent request to Mr. X for a statement.

Is that a coincidence? Or is it an indication that the Metropolitan Police Service were actively seeking to compromise investigation of Plebgate as early as 1st October 2012?

Notice too that the conclusion of Operation Alice and the conclusion of the investigation into alleged perversion of the course of justice by Ms. Glass coincide - 26th November 2013.

Is that coincidence? Or is it an indicating of a corrupt quid pro quo between Ms. Glass and the Metropolitan Police?

Plebgate is merely one of the high-profile IPCC investigations tainted by the "corrupt relationship" between Deborah Glass and the Metropolitan Police.

I first learned of CRIS2314237/12 in May 2014.

Before that I had independently arrived at the view that Deborah Glass was acting unlawfully to conceal gross misconduct and/or criminal activity with respect to several high profile investigations:

• Aspects of the Hillsborough Disaster (including the conduct of Commissioner Sir Bernard Hogan-Howe, who on 15th April 1989 was Inspector Hogan-Howe of the South Yorkshire Police)
• The suspicious death of Dr. David Kelly (conduct of Deputy Assistant Commissioner Helen Ball, formerly of Thames Valley Police)
• Plebgate (conduct of Police Federation officials Inspector Ken Mackaill, Detective Sergeant Stuart Hinton, Sergeant Chris Jones, Sergeant Ian Edwards, and the following senior officers -  Chief Constable Chris Jones of West Midlands Police, Chief Constable David Shaw of West Mercia Police and Chief Constable Andy Parker of Warwickshire Police)

My concerns about Ms. Glass's behavior led me to submit a formal complaint about her conduct to Dame Anne Owers, Chair of the Independent Police Complaints Commission.

My formal complaint to Dame Anne Owers is online here:
FUQQ.EU Deborah Glass - Is Deborah Glass a fit person to be an IPCC Commissioner?

The present blog post is a highly abbreviated account of one aspect of a "corrupt relationship" between Deborah Glass and the Metropolitan Police.

Something is profoundly wrong with the Independent Police Complaints Commission and the Metropolitan Police Service in its highest reaches.

I wonder if the Home Secretary will investigate such corruption in two organisations for which she is ultimately reponsible.