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Scotland Yard chiefs were ‘more interested in covering up their mistakes than learning from them’ NewsColony Scotland Yard chiefs were more concerned with ‘restricting access’ to a damning judge-led report into the VIP child sex abuse scandal than learning lessons from it, according to police watchdogs. The Metropolitan Police’s shocking response to its disastrous ‘Nick’ inquiry is laid bare in a devastating report by Her Majesty’s Inspectorate of Constabulary today. It revealed the force did little to improve practices for nearly three years, training regimes were outdated and nearly half of officers polled in a survey had received no training on how to apply for warrants. ‘Inexperienced supervisors, weaknesses in understanding, inconsistencies and a superficial approach to supervising crime investigations aren’t the most promising findings to have to report,’ the HMIC said. On another day of shame for the Metropolitan Police over the ‘Nick’ affair, the inspectorate report said...