...And all fell runners live in the North of England, wear walshes, drink beer and think anyone who runs on the roads is a right softie...??? ***
Generalisation are, generally, a bad thing I've found Dan. I personally know an ACC (Assistant Chief Constable), 2 inspectors (one now retired) and my brother is (was) a (now retired) Chief Superintendent...as well as 3 constables. And not one of them I would describe, or have the slightest doubt of, as dishonest, corrupt, or without the moral fibre or character to admit when they make mistakes.
So to say it's "the one's in charge" smacks of it's always someone else...
That's not to say of course that there aren't many that don't have the bollocks (or moral fibre/character/integrity...whatever you want to call it) to admit to their errors. But this problem is, I reckon, at all ranks. And in every walk of life. NHS, Teaching, Government, Safety management (oh oh...I knew I shouldn't have opened that box of Pandora's)
My view is that there's very few bad un's in there. The Met Police, by it's size is by far and away going to have the highest number of bad ones.
Every Policeman I know detests what the bad and corrupt ones do and the legacy they leave; moreso than we can!
*** (If we exclude Scotland cos they want to make an UDI anyway, and declare Wales an annex of Yorkshire then actually, I guess my statement is probably not far from the truth..
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