One of the main reasons that they do not want to release all the documents is simple. There are too many people involved who have yet to be questioned. Who are they? Stephen Mold previous Commissioner, Nicci Marzec and certainly Conservative councillors on the Police, Fire and Crime panel who were complicit in supporting Mold without questioning what they were up to.
Lest we forget Paul Fell sat on the panel that approved Adderley and only until Adderley changed his story dropping Paul Fell in it with the dodgy phone call, was he quite prepared to admit he accepted Adderley's story of being sent to the Falklands knowing his age and how this was impossible. They have given evidence against him but know they are all equally on the hook for their own failures.
You are absolutely right. I don't recall any instance at all where someone in public life was protected from the consequences of their own stupidity and incompetence, to quite the extent that Stephen Mold was by David Smith. In my opinion, this is something that the PFC panel should have in the front of their collective mind, when they are deciding (on Friday, I think) who should be their chairman.
The recent revelation about the Masters degree from Cambridge and the lack of BOTH application forms when he joined give rise to why the IOPC want to try to bury this as completed now. Much much more story still to dig into here and reviewing the documents with a keen eye will reveal this.
One of the main reasons that they do not want to release all the documents is simple. There are too many people involved who have yet to be questioned. Who are they? Stephen Mold previous Commissioner, Nicci Marzec and certainly Conservative councillors on the Police, Fire and Crime panel who were complicit in supporting Mold without questioning what they were up to.
Lest we forget Paul Fell sat on the panel that approved Adderley and only until Adderley changed his story dropping Paul Fell in it with the dodgy phone call, was he quite prepared to admit he accepted Adderley's story of being sent to the Falklands knowing his age and how this was impossible. They have given evidence against him but know they are all equally on the hook for their own failures.
You are absolutely right. I don't recall any instance at all where someone in public life was protected from the consequences of their own stupidity and incompetence, to quite the extent that Stephen Mold was by David Smith. In my opinion, this is something that the PFC panel should have in the front of their collective mind, when they are deciding (on Friday, I think) who should be their chairman.
The recent revelation about the Masters degree from Cambridge and the lack of BOTH application forms when he joined give rise to why the IOPC want to try to bury this as completed now. Much much more story still to dig into here and reviewing the documents with a keen eye will reveal this.