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Nice idea.


Many will know this already, but the residential development on the corner of Crystal Palace Road and Upland Road was previously a police station that housed a notorious elite police squad who were involved in some serious Line of Duty style police corruption in the 1990s.

A total of five officers operating as part of the subsequently disbanded South East Regional Crime Squad were jailed for selling drugs seized from dealers and traffickers to rival gangs.

One of them was also linked to corruption around the Stephen Lawrence case, and the murder of Daniel Morgan, a private detective who was said to be close to exposing police corruption.

Robert Elm's notes and queries is the place to go. Also get hold of one of the various secret London books.


eg today two blue plaques in Catford



https://www.amazon.co.uk/s?k=secret+london+books&adgrpid=103176427425&gclid=EAIaIQobChMIqaKs8bmy8AIVC5ftCh29ogOkEAAYASAAEgLY-vD_BwE&hvadid=446239367660&hvdev=c&hvlocphy=9045879&hvnetw=g&hvqmt=e&hvrand=1196498406437400623&hvtargid=kwd-846396957586&hydadcr=24405_1816066&tag=googhydr-21&ref=pd_sl_1b3cbwyyy1_e_p50


Reference to Amazon for info only - use your local bookshop and/or independent on line trader!

No he didn't Robert Elms has never come further SE than the Elephant. I've invited him few times and he disintegrates into dust just at the thought. Although I think his son is in Peckham so he has a special tunnel to get there. Hope you are watching Robert!


Shackleton lived on Underhill or Wood Vale.


Joe Orton's film Entertaining Mr Sloane was in part filmed in Camberwell Old Cemetery.

DuncanW Wrote:

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> Nice idea.

>

> Many will know this already, but the residential

> development on the corner of Crystal Palace Road

> and Upland Road was previously a police station

> that housed a notorious elite police squad who

> were involved in some serious Line of Duty style

> police corruption in the 1990s.

> A total of five officers operating as part of the

> subsequently disbanded South East Regional Crime

> Squad were jailed for selling drugs seized from

> dealers and traffickers to rival gangs.

> One of them was also linked to corruption around

> the Stephen Lawrence case, and the murder of

> Daniel Morgan, a private detective who was said to

> be close to exposing police corruption.


It's all very Line of Duty indeed


https://www.theguardian.com/uk/2000/aug/05/drugsandalcohol.nickhopkins

and then

https://www.theguardian.com/uk/2011/oct/19/met-police-detectives-cleared-retrial


"H" you see,

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