Tend to agree with Lomax that if anything of the nature did exist it was from police incompetence and not a sinister nature.
Not that I don't believe police were not corrupt in the 80s, I'm living testimony but I struggle with the industrial scale that's put out there. Posh farmer boy, middle class soon to be wealthy guy. Had JB been from an estate in Peckham and couldn't read or write I could envision it.
Also don't think Jones, Ainsley and co would be able to pull something off like that.