If you worked in a police environment you would understand exactly how this was possible. Remember that all the worst excesses of political correctness, trial by media, Paxman style news reporting (everything is black or white), human rights and ‘no win, no fee’ all boomed during the NuLabour years.

Remember too that the MacPherson report decided that the police were ‘unwittingly racist’. Can you imagine the climate of fear for police officers and staff this created?

One teeny whiff of something ‘racist’ in your vicinity and nobody is going to back you up. Evidence be damned, no need for evidence with a definition of a racist incident that says it`s ‘any incident that is perceived to be racist, by the victim OR ANY OTHER PERSON’. We can debate how much of our perception of something is down to choice.

Officers were sometimes told in compulsory ‘diversity’ training courses that it was NOT POSSIBLE for anyone other than white people to be prejudiced.

So Ali Dizaei is non-white so can`t be a racist himself, his employer is widely ‘known’ to be ‘institutionally racist’, every lawyer in London will work for free to prove he has been treated unfairly due to his race, headlines in papers always trump the truth, accusations of racist treatment are true without evidence, his ‘human rights’ beats every other law of the land, and the MET desperately want to prove how non-racist and ‘diverse’ they are.

And it`s cheaper to pay his salary and keep it quiet than go to court and risk a multi-million pound fine.

Scary, huh?