What a delightful day of telephone talks with Merseyside Police, first there is the always enjoyable process of getting past reception, they now claim to be trained in the law. I have to say it doesn't show. Is it that the police are spending the cash on solicitors to answer the phone or is it that the receptionists are lying. Some of the higher up ones in the Chief cons office are so up themselves that they will not even repeat a name they have used or spell it out, but somehow think themselves not rude.
Anyway, back to Nick apparently Nick doesn't can't investigate things that happened in the past. So presumably that means he only investigates crimes while they are going on, in the case of a stabbing while the knife is still in the victim.
When someone has said it wasn't a crime, then it is all over, even if the person making the claim hasn't investigated, hasn't looked just feels that it would be inconvenient for someone if the truth came out. For people like Nick, reality is determined by what people in authority say is reality, no messing about with the actual reality, it is a quasi religious view.
However, there may well be something else going on with Nick, when told that evidence was going to still be collected, questions still going to be asked, there was the sound of a sneer in his voice when he said, "and what are you going to do when it you have it", which sounds very much like a boast that he and his mates have control of the judicial system, you only get access if they want, and no matter what proof you have it useless unless we give it the nod.
In schools there are several different types of bully, one of the nastier types is the type that uses teachers to do their bullying, they are goody little two shoes as far as the teachers are concerned, but they have the teachers wrapped around their finger, if you annoy these snide little bullies or don't do what they want, then they drop you in shit with TPTB, this sounds a lot like quiet a few coppers.
I imagine that in the Milgram experiment, there would have been some outliers begging to give bigger shocks to appease the boss. Police corruption and incompetence flourish because of the servile nature of the cops, some of them are still prepared to give the "I was only following orders" a try out.
The reality is I don't want to spend the next 15-20 years like the last, and that is what Nick & Co are offering, without an understanding and acceptance of what happened in the past, then it will repeat itself.
Turns out the most honest thing is Merseyside Police is the mail bouncing. Send an email to 
