[Kizzy]

Originally Posted by MTVN

A close friend of one journalist from the paper, that's all. It is a fact that at best three police officers lied about what happened and it might even have been worse than that, these were the findings of the IPCC not any politicians or journalists that were close to Mitchell.

Oborne's point is that for the police to be effective they need to be trusted by the public, something that won't happen if they are shown to have lied and gotten away with it, as they have done in other incidents as well. They're in a position where they have the power of arrest, are tasked with gathering evidence, and are generally given greater credence and special protections. Hence why they need to be held to such a high standard. With so many questionable incidents in recent years the police force should be scrutinised in the same way that MPs were after expenses, journalists after phone hacking, bankers after the recession and the intelligence services after Iraq. Seems a sensible idea to me.

The fact is nobody knows what was said for certain as mitchell won't express honestly what he did say will he, yes he is a friend of this journalist... funny that and he gets to help ruin the reputation of hard working officers up and down the country.
The government have been pivotal in ensuring that the country have NO faith in the police, and it's rather hypocritical of a government who the public have no faith in to ask that in all fairness.
As you mention expenses lets run with that, have we really had a full an frank explanation as to the implamentations to restrict further abuses?
Similarly with lobbying,the dubious business practices and alliances with despots.
That's not even taking into account Cameron and Brooks, Patton and the BBC and the obvious bias of the Mail run by a fascist.