Mind you, he was impressively well kitted out. Perhaps that's what tipped them?
Salim 'Sal' Razaq, 31, became a 'mob boss in police uniform' after assuming control of a drug and dirty money racket when his brother went to jail over a vicious turf war.
Officers found two Uzi sub-machine guns and a 9mm Sten sub-machine gun hidden in a suitcase under the stairs, when they raided his suburban home.I mean, far be it from me to suggest that a brother in the drugs business might have made someone think 'Hmmmm...?'
They also recovered 224 live rounds of ammunition from a shed, £72,000 in cash plus a knuckle-duster, balaclava and bullet-proof jacket.
Colleagues at Nelson Police station in Lancashire regarded Razaq as a 'copper's cop'. They had no idea he had turned his home in Chorley Road, Preston, into a gangland HQ.Boy, are their faces red...
Lancashire Police said there was now an 'in-service' vetting programme within the force, where officers are routinely checked to highlight any causes for concern with family members.'Now'..? It didn't occur to them they might need this before...?
.....They had no idea he had turned his home in Chorley Road, Preston, into a gangland HQ....
ReplyDeleteI recall your topic on the police recruit who was accepted with an IQ level of 86, Julia. *shudders*
It is just possible there are no high flyers at this police station, either.
Phew.
ReplyDeleteI thought for one moment that they had discovered he was a member of the BNP.
Obviously not that serious then.
An obvious upstanding member of the Religion of Peace.
ReplyDeleteMove along now, nothing to see here.
IQ of 86? That's virtually Oxbridge level in dumbed down Britain. He will be Chief Constable in a few years.
ReplyDeleteI cannot comment on this case and of course, I hate to say it as I love being multi-culti PC (if not a pc) but... what did they expect?
ReplyDeleteWe keep bringing people here and elevating them in the hope they are going to be really quite civilised and will follow the same rules as those already here.
Sometimes it just isn't that way at all.
There will be more of these cases in the future. As an ex police person all I will say is that certain demographic groups feature more than others in cases of wrongdoing but what do you expect when you get selection by quota?
ReplyDeleteA bent cop is as hard (if not harder) to catch than a bent lawyer, and I'm not talking about someone getting a smack off a uniformed officer, I'm talking about sustained criminality. It takes an awful lot of work to put someone like that away. I'd be more worried if no cases like this were being reported.
Still, you reap what you sow and all that.
"I Prefer My Dirty Cops To Look Like Richard Gere" ...
ReplyDeleteIt took long enough to put that bent bastard Dizaei where he belongs .. and his influence on the Police in general has obviously set a precedent for others to follow or to aspire to emulate ..
Colleagues at Nelson Police station
ReplyDeleteNeasden, shirly!
(Private Eye for the ininitiated.)
I keep thinking that he was only accepted into the job because he waved a 'diversity voucher'at the recruiting panel.- But nothing like that really happens does it?
ReplyDelete"It is just possible there are no high flyers at this police station, either."
ReplyDeleteIndeed!
"We keep bringing people here and elevating them in the hope they are going to be really quite civilised and will follow the same rules as those already here."
As anon and Blueknight poin out, the quota system isn't doing us any favours...
"...certain demographic groups feature more than others in cases of wrongdoing but what do you expect when you get selection by quota?"
Nothing less than what we've got.
"It took long enough to put that bent bastard Dizaei where he belongs..."
And it's taking quite an effort to KEEP him there, isn't it?
Whats the betting his colleagues knew exactly how bent he was, but didn't say anything on the basis that they instead would be prosecuted/harassed for racism instead.
ReplyDeleteAs the saying goes, you can take the immigrant out of a violent shithole, but....
there was now an 'in-service' vetting programme within the force, where officers are routinely checked to highlight any causes for concern with family members.
ReplyDeleteNow? Since WHEN did they NOT?
In my day if your Brother, Sister, Mother, Uncle, had had a ticket at 16 years old for illegaly parking the bloody DOG, you would not stand a chance of getting in.