One thing curiously absent from the coverage of Metropolitan Police assistant commissioner Tarique Ghaffur's discrimination case is his, as it were, on-the-job record. What I'd like to know is how many crims has he brought to book?
We've all been bombarded with detail of the heartbreaking story of Ghaffur's career being allegedly stopped in its glittering tracks by alleged discriminatory practices at the Met. Yet as one of millions who pay for this organisation and its denizens I have no idea about Ghaffur's track record in what really matters - bringing villans to book.
Funnily enough this is what police officers are largely paid to do. And in Ghaffur's case rather handsomely. Before the Met he started his career in Manchester, a city with a good spread of crims that must have offered plenty of collars for the feeling of. But curiously the name Ghaffur does not seem to be linked with any famous cases such as Nipper Read bringing in Ron and Reg or Jack Slipper tracking Ronnie Biggs down in Rio and passing on his address to Johnnie Rotten.
Ghaffur pulls in lots so he must have a half-decent arrest and clear up record mustn't he? Perhaps his first wife will know as she has give some interesting detail about him. So here's a challenge to readers: name one villan arrested by either Ghaffur or his boss Sir Ian Blair. Answers on a charge sheet please.
