A Firm in a Firm: Freemasonry and Police Corruption

Wed, 26 May 2021 19:15:54 GMT

Since the Metropolitan Police was founded in 1829 there have been two complete reorganizations of its detective department. Both were provoked by massive corruption scandals leading to criminal trials exactly one hundred years apart, in 1877 and 1977. In each scandal Freemasonry played a dominant role.