In the carefully curated words of Wikipedia, "It was announced in December 2014 that [Cressida Dick] would retire from the police in 2015 to join the Foreign Office, in an unspecified director-general level posting."
Dick moved to MI6 from the position of Metropolitan Police Assistant Commissioner for Specialist Operations, responsible for national security and counter-terrorism. In February 2014, the Crown Prosecution Service had decided not to prosecute MI6 for its rendition of two entire families to Colonel Gaddafi's Libya, in the days before we decided that we did not like him after all.
The decision of the CPS infuriated Met detectives who had been working on the case for years, gathering reams of evidence against, in particular, the former Head of Counter-terrorism at MI6, Sir Mark Allen, on whom they had compiled a dossier of 28,000 pages. Yet 10 months later, Dick was announced as a Director-General at MI6. In 2017, she returned to the Met as Commissioner.
Remember, corruption only happens abroad.
ReplyDeletePerhaps it does, and what we have here is beyond that, requiring a word all of its own?
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