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LONDON: Police in Britain's biggest force are consorting with criminals, taking drugs and misusing their warrants, a secret Scotland Yard report has revealed.
A wide-ranging inquiry into corruption in London's force, carried out last month, found "inappropriate relationships or criminal associations" among police officers and civilian staff posed "significant threats" to the Metropolitan Police.
The report says more and more officers and staff are taking illegal drugs while off duty. Cocaine and cannabis are "the drugs of choice" and drug testing has been introduced for j... Read more
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18 August 2006
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Now, he's target of police
HE was known as the 'video vigilante' because of his home-video footage of prostitutes around his home, taken to embarrass their customers.
But now he is being investigated by police in what some say is a personal attack on him.
Mr Brian Bates (right), 36, started his filming in the mid-1990s after becoming fed-up with seeing call girls and their clients in his working-class neighbourhood.
He was then a hospital marketing manager.
His lurid, caught-in-the-act clips, posted on his website, drew the attention of local TV stations and earned him the praise of the police and prosecutors.
But the police have since charged him with pandering and aiding and abetting prostitution.
Prosecutors say that he paid prostitutes to take their customers to locations where he could easily tape them.
Bates, now a journalism student, and his lawyer have denied this and say instead that Bates annoyed the authorities when he video-taped two Oklahoma City police officers beating an unarmed black man with their batons during an arrest in 2002.
But the district attorney, Mr Wes Lane, defended the officers and did not prosecute them and Bates criticised him for that.
Bates' lawyer said that the current charges were 'the biggest abuse of power I've ever seen to try and silence a critic' and added: 'They're simply trying to shut this man up.'
In a sting operation last year, Bates was taped giving a prostitute $US50. However, he said that he did that so that she could get a hotel room to visit her children.
He has also said that he did routinely pay prostitutes for interviews.
Mr Lane said that Bates' videos had become 'just this side of pornography'.
However, Mr Jay Trenary, a former assistant district attorney who used to work for Mr Lane, said: 'My opinion is that Brian Bates is being picked on. Certainly more resources were devoted to his case than there were to other crimes going on at the time, and even more serious cases.'
Despite the charges, Bates continues to film prostitutes and their customers.
He said: 'If I wanted to win a popularity contest, I'd save the whales or feed the children."
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