How can Commander Calamity cling on?

Nick Bramall gives a mirthless laugh. On that day, March 21, 2016, the then Met Deputy Assistant Commissioner Rodhouse, who had overall control of Midland, declared: ‘I haven’t seen any evidence to prove that anyone, Nick or otherwise, has knowingly provided false information to the investigation.’ Former Metropolitan Police Deputy Assistant Commissioner Steve Rodhouse, who had overall control of Operation Midland, is now Director General at the National Crime Agency History has not been kind to that judgment. Metropolitan Police Commissioner Cressida Dick has been criticised over the Met's handling of Operation Midland To add to the clamour for action, Howard Riddle, the former chief magistrate who issued Rodhouse’s team with the search warrants for the homes and offices of Lords Bramall and Brittan, and former Tory MP Harvey Proctor, wrote in the Mail this week claiming there was no reason to doubt Sir Richard Henriques’s conclusion that there were ‘reasonable grounds to suspect a criminal offence’ had been committed by the officers. Sir Richard concluded: ‘Since had formed the view that Nick may have fabricated some or all of this allegation, I am unable to see how he could properly formulate a decision to inform the public that “we believe Nick”.’ Sir Richard also blasted Rodhouse’s handling of Operation Vincente — the investigation into historic false rape allegations against Lord Brittan, made by a Labour Party activist with severe mental health issues. They reveal that two senior officers in the Met’s Professional Standards Department — including another DAC — classified Rodhouse’s conduct in Midland as potential ‘gross misconduct’, a sackable offence.