The Biggest Gang in Britain - Shining a Light on the Culture of Police Corruption

The Biggest Gang in Britain - Shining a Light on the Culture of Police Corruption

The first of two hard hitting, brutally honest accounts of police work during the late s and s. Whilst explicit, they are often humorous, refreshing and equally unbelievable. The series of two gritty yet humorous books are written with such explicit content that leaves little doubt that many working practices of the 60s and 70s have in reality actually become a culture of dishonesty, lies and often stupidity which has been accepted by the Government of the day, the judiciary and the public at large for many years.

That is of course until the present day when it has all gone so wrong. Very, very wrong with the revelations of the Hillsborough Investigation, the Jimmy Savile Investigation, so many more and even 'Plebgate' when The Biggest Gang believed they were so powerful that evidence against Andrew Mitchell MP, a member of Her Majesty's Government left so many questions, which when answered were proved to be blatant lies. This book explains that such examples are not typical of a minority rogue element as being claimed but are a dishonest culture, born so long ago but allowed to fester and grow with the many examples and revelations which have continued until today with Plebgate and Hillsborough as only two shocking examples.

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Write a customer review. Showing of 2 reviews. Top Reviews Most recent Top Reviews. There was a problem filtering reviews right now. Please try again later. Kindle Edition Verified Purchase. As a retired cop myself and known the author I found it interesting sometimes comical but above all as it was.

Hayes' books are entertaining overall. His claims of corruption in the Manchester CID appear to be generally corroborated by some cases e. His other claims of general police corruption seem a bit over the top, but perhaps that really is all he experienced.

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His general assertion that all police officers in England were corrupt during his service about to is unsupportable and unfair. On the other hand, his portrayals of most senior police officers as incompetent rings true. Another criticism is his poor research of police history. For one small example, the graduate entry scheme was introduced in - well before Margaret Thatcher's tenure as Prime Minister. He looks like a bull in a sports jacket and is sitting in the witness box on this balmy November day being questioned by his attorney, Paul DePasquale.

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What happened after Liddy and his colleagues arrived at the Snakepit that night is what the jurors have to decide. Did he and his fellow officer, Michael Buchanan, really get hit by a pick-up truck driven by a getaway gangster or did they make the whole thing up, and frame and beat up the gang member? And are the officers part of a vast scandal that has led to killings, beatings, framings and drug dealing - all carried out by the men who should be enforcing the law? That story starts with Rafael Perez, a policeman caught stealing 2. In a plea bargain deal, he was given a five-year jail sentence in exchange for information about corruption among his fellow officers.

One victim will not be suing personally: Juan Saldana, 21, was shot and left to bleed to death with a gun planted beside him. Every week over recent months it has seemed that a gang member, usually Latino, has emerged from prison with tales of beatings and plantings. One of the very worst cases was that of Javier Ovando, who was allegedly shot and paralysed by Perez and his fellow officer, Nino Durden. The officers then accused Ovando of attempted murder and he was jailed for 23 years, with the judge chiding him for his lack of remorse.

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Ovando is out now and will be compensated but will not walk again. The police union, the Police Protection League, has claimed that Perez was a rogue cop and was only implicating his colleagues to save his own skin.

But morale among officers has slumped. They say they are now so concerned about being accused of framing or beating gang members that they spend their hours on duty avoiding trouble.

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This may be the reason for the recent rise in gang shootings, and the renewed activity among the more than gangs and 60, gang members in the city. There is a heavy political undertow in LA to accusations that the police have abused their power. In , 54 people died after the riots that followed the acquittal of officers caught on video beating Rodney King. In , in the Watts section of LA, it was police action against an alleged drink driver that led to the riots in which 34 died. This time the city wants to show that it is acting properly, and hence the Los Angeles district attorney, Gil Garcetti, has initiated the prosecutions.

Liddy, Buchanan and two other officers, Paul Harper and Edward Ortiz, accused of conspiring to pervert or obstruct justice, are the first fruits of Mr Garcetti's labours. And as their trial comes to its conclusion, there is a political dimension: Mr Garcetti is running for re-election next Tuesday. A conviction would help his credibility and an acquittal would pose questions about his judgment. This week has come a new twist: Perez is not giving evidence as planned because his ex-girlfriend has now claimed that he and a fellow rogue officer, David Mack, had killed a drug dealer and his mother and had buried their bodies in a rubbish tip in Tijuana, Mexico.

The Mexican police found no remains. Perez is duly "pleading the fifth" - refusing to give evidence in case he incriminates himself in a double murder. But whatever happens in this case, the ramifications are already being felt throughout the city. A few miles from the downtown courthouse, in Boyle Heights in the Latino area of the city, sits Frank, as he suggests we call him.

Frank, a good-looking, shaven-headed year-old in a Nike jacket and jeans, has cut his teeth with the Playboys gang. He says that the framing of young gang members is routine and is himself suing the LAPD for planting marijuana and crack on him, which led him to a year in jail. He was one of the big dealers. Have things changed because of what happened? The police just play by different rules now.

He said that instead of planting drugs on gang members, the police now arrest them for petty offences. Frank is sitting in a room at the back of the centre where Father Greg Boyle - "G-Dog" as the young gang members call him - runs a programme that helps them find work and tries to get them out of the gang cycle.