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confided that he had told the UB Staff Sergeant who had offered the retainer that he did not want the money but would nevertheless not interfere with the gambling. It is not my place to identify this officer but, as with other officers at the time, he felt that the whole problem would not be solved without an inquiry from the UK. Even the integrity of your own leadership does not the complete answer to the problem. This officer, like myself, "was approached in circumstances where there were no witnesses and any complaint would have boiled down to one man's word against another's, in the least, and a false graft charge against the complainant if the conspiracy wanted to teach him and others a lesson. If one is to beat the conspiracy then it is essential to take from officers, serving or not, the testimony they can and, ten years ago, wanted to, supply.
You mention that I might persuade my friends in the Force to trust you and come and discuss the corruption problem with you. I have few declared friends in the Force and my activities since 1962 have been based on my understanding of the problem, their support for the position I adopted, and my belief that there are others like them in the Force who wou led and the external inqu Kowloon investigations i Alec Douglas-Home by then one of my friends told you of the corruption problem a. Only recently did I learn th to the inspectorate
support both the clean sweep you have I have sought. In 1963/64 during the llegations made to Prime Minister Sir pector Christopher St John Wallace,
my situation and the general situation
affected the inspectorate, I believe. at that time you had made promises
and that you had fully honoured those promises, the substance of which I do not know. I am sure that if this officer had anything which he felt you ought to know and could act on, then he would come to you. Certainly there is no doubt that he trusts you and you would possibly like to know that quite recently he scolded me because he felt that currently I am not being fair to you.
The problem is not a simple one. One officer cannot come to you with a formal complaint against a colleague with great ease. It is not simply a matter of courage but one of knowing that you will be forced to act, that there may not be any concrete evidence corroborating his charges and that, in any case, he would certainly not be viewed favourably by the men with whom he has to work. Insp. Wallace went through a most demoralising time of ostracism as the result of his appeal to Douglas-Home and, after being placed on extended probationary period felt sufficiently demoralised to. resign. The treatment he received for doing his duty was somewhat stronger than the result of my asking the Assistant Commissioner Kowloon Mr T.E.Clunie for a transfer to another division in late 1962, hoping that he would be sufficiently intelligent to read between the lines of my application the things Iwas unable to put into writing; I did not get my transfer and my increment was deferred! There is no suggestion that you would cause a trusting officer to be ostracised but even an honest chief police officer cannot control the emotions and prejudices arising from the interests and fears of subordinates - just as by sheer pressure of work he may be compelled to delegate investigation to a senior subordinate who, the complainant may risk, may be a Sutcliffe or a Godber. Wallace's experiences of ostracism were similar to my own and your officers, honest officers, are well aware as to just how truth can be suppressed or twisted.
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