Operation Tiberius

Operation Tiberius was a 2002 internal London Metropolitan Police investigation, leaked to The Independent in 2014.

[1] The Metropolitan Police acknowledged that it was borne of other investigations, but described it as a new strategic approach to corruption, rather than a single operation.

Unnamed MPS Senior Investigating Officer, currently attached to SO 1(3), cited in the Independent's report [5]One of the highest-ranking gangsters in the UK, John Palmer, was alleged by The Times, based on Operation Tiberius files, to have been protected from arrest and investigation by a clique of high-ranking corrupt Metropolitan Police officers.

[9] On 29 February 2016, the BBC screened an edition of Panorama entitled "Cops, Criminals, Corruption: The Inside Story".

In particular, there was no mention of the involvement of Freemasonry, in contrast to The Independent article and what had been leaked from the Operation Tiberius report.