welkram wrote:
>My guess was that if there was
> a Police Porn Squad then they must have been the sort we read
> about in "our friends from the north".
>
There certainly was, that's why many of them ended up in gaol in the 70's. The Porn Squad was so corrupt it was disbanded, there was no way to reform it, as even the detectives who weren't bent colluded in corruption by not reporting the majority who were, including the head of the squad.