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March 17, 2009:The Metropolitan Black Police Association(MBPA) is to re-establish ties with the force's senior officers.The leadership of black and minority police officers broke off formal relations with Scotland Yard in October 2008 during the high of a poisonous race row as they had "no confidence" in top officers.The MBPA also announced a recruitment boycott, saying not enough was being done to confront racism - it is still in place.
The move came after the suspension of national BPA head Commander Ali Dizaei over a misconduct investigation.
MBPA members believe he is the victim of a "sustained witch-hunt".Chairman Alfred John had previously said he and others would only attend meetings concerning the reinstatement of Mr Dizaei.It is not often I do this, but I am ripping the whole hog here as many time the News Of The world pull many articles, so this is too much of a gem to lose.

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Suspended senior Met officer employed bogus asylum seeker

By Mazher Mahmood, 15/03/2009

RACE row cop Ali Dizaei employed an illegal immigrant as his right hand man and took him to the heart of the British establishment.
Today we can reveal how, in an incredible security breach, Metropolitan Police Commander Dizaei:

• TWICE took the man to the HOUSE OF COMMONS.
• ALLOWED him to meet former HOME SECRETARY John Reid and mingle with other ministers.
• INVITED him into SCOTLAND YARD where he met top brass.

Iranian Ace Bakhtyari was subsequently jailed for having a fake passport and deported. We tracked him to his home country’s border with Turkey where he told us how he lived the high-life with Dizaei after arriving in Britain on the back of a lorry in 2004.
Chillingly, he told us: “Nobody bothered to check me when I went to the Commons because I was with Dizaei. “I could have smuggled in a bomb and blown the place up if I’d wanted.

Ali Dizaei, left, with MP Keith Vaz and top cop Tarique Ghaffur

“Instead I was in there laughing to myself as I chatted to the Home Secretary and all the big policemen whose job it was to arrest and deport people like me.
”Dizaei claims he did not knowingly employ an illegal immigrant. But a source said: “At best it shows that Dizaei was naive to have a man like Ace by his side for over a year.
“For such a senior ranking Met officer to be associating with a criminal is simply unbelievable. He should have realised that Ace was a bogus asylum seeker long before he was arrested.”

Shy, Dizaei's wife poses for Ace in hat

Dizaei was suspended by the Met last September and is currently being investigated for alleged misconduct.
It is alleged that he advised a defence team run by now-suspended solicitor Shahrokh Mires- kandari on how to undermine a criminal case brought by Dizaei’s employers. The top cop strongly denies the allegations and has accused the force of racism, but our revelations today will add to the controversy surrounding his high-flying career.
Ace told us: “I went everywhere with Ali, I even stayed in his house with him and his wife. “I did everything from odd jobs, gardening and building work to his weekly shopping”.
Ace, a professional photographer, paid an agent around £7,000 to get into Britain from his home in Tehran. His plea for political asylum was turned down and he faced being deported.
“In London I was introduced to Ali Dizaei by a mutual friend because he wanted a cheap photographer to take pictures for his wedding to his second wife Shy.”

BELLY LAUGHS: Dizaei enjoying a night out

Ace was offered £600 cash by Dizaei to take the wedding pics. “His previous quote was around £1,500 so he was getting a good deal,” said Ace.
“At the wedding I was introduced to Shahrokh Mirekandari by Dizaei. Shahrokh said my case was difficult but he would help me. But first he wanted me take some photos for him too,” said Ace.
He was asked to photograph the lavish Christmas party of Mireskandari’s firm Dean and Dean at the Hilton on Park Lane. The event was attended by a host of politicians, top legal figures and senior police officers. Those who made speeches at the event included Keith Vaz MP

Ace meets John Reid

“I soon became very close to Dizaei and his wife Shy. I was basically a gofer. “I looked after his home when he went on honeymoon to Spain. He asked me to fit a new window and put an extra lock on his door while he was away.
“He would pay me cash in hand, a few hundred quid a time. But he really trusted me, even giving me his credit card to order furniture for him. I often stayed at his house sleeping downstairs while he and his wife slept upstairs.”
Ace did odd jobs at all three of Dizaei’s homes, in Acton, Chiswick and in Henley On Thames, where his first wife Natalie lives.
On November 14 2007 Dizaei, who is president of the National Black Police Association, rewarded Ace with a trip to the Commons, where Keith Vaz was hosting a party to honour newly- elected association members. “I couldn’t believe how I was ushered past all the security measures simply because I was with Dizaei. “Not many illegal immigrants can claim to have partied at the House of Commons, but I managed it twice!”
The second occasion was on February 21 last year at a function again hosted by Keith Vaz to dish out awards to Asian figures in politics and public life. They were presented by John Reid, who had resigned as Home Secretary seven months earlier.

Ace, right, with Dizaei

At the do, Ace mingled with ministers and top cops including Asst Commissioner Tarique Ghaffur and Lord Nazir Ahmed. “I was getting used to mixing with all these top people and nobody batted an eyelid when they saw me,” said Ace.
Ace accompanied Dizaei to several parties, including one where scores of police officers gathered to celebrate his appointment as a Commander on £90,000 a year.
But in May 2008 Ace was caught in a random stop and search. Police found Ace had a fake French passport and was carrying Dizaei’s credit card. He was jailed for 15 months and deported back to Iran. “Life with Dizaei really was life in the fast lane. He liked to eat, drink and party in the company of rich and powerful people,” said Ace.
“He was also surrounded by some very beautiful women, and I often went with him to posh dinners and belly dancing nights,” said Ace.
In a phone call on Thursday Shy spoke sympathetically to Ace about his plight. She said that Dizaei had told police colleagues he had given Ace his permission to use the credit card. “Ali had said that I authorised him. That was nothing, yes,” wife Shy told Ace.
A spokesman for Ali Dizaei said: “He has never knowingly hired an illegal immigrant to do any work for him. Furthermore, he has not at any time knowingly had any illegal immigrant living with him in his house.”'

Chief's scandal rocked career

ALI Dizaei’s rise to become Britain’s most senior Asian cop has been dogged by controversy. Not long after joining the Met in 1999, he faced claims of corruption, using drugs and prostitutes, and spying for Iran – all allegations were later dropped.
Then Met chief Sir Ian Blair later apologised for the inquiry, which cost the taxpayer £2.2million.
In 2003 Dizaei was cleared of perverting justice, misconduct in public office and making false expense claims. He is currently suspended again facing THREE separate corruption and misconduct probes. Dizaei denies all the allegations and has launched a racial discrimination claim against the Met.