A “high level informant” is suing Scotland Yard for allegedly failing to protect him when his identity was exposed to gangsters with corrupt cops in their pockets.
It comes after a highly sensitive intelligence report on “endemic police corruption linked to major organised crime” was leaked online.
The Tiberius report was written by Metropolitan Police’s anti-corruption squad, which inspired hit BBC drama Line of Duty’s fictional AC-12 led by Superintendent Ted Hastings.
But Tiberius concluded Met efforts to catch bent coppers failed to prosecute almost all of those named as corrupt. Many are believed to have left with full pensions and went to work in private security.
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