Members of this distinguished panel have all been betrayed by police failures 

Fury of Home Secretary's wife 

Lady Brittan's husband Leon was falsely accused of rape and murder by serial fantasists. Her two homes were raided by the Met's Operation Midland detectives over the lies of Carl 'Nick' Beech, six weeks after her husband, a Tory former home secretary, died in 2015.

'I'm actually quite interested in leadership and I think there is a difference between the way women lead and the way men lead organisations,' she said. 'But nonetheless, the principles are the same. Firstly, you cannot seek popularity. You have to have integrity. You have to have clarity of vision and if there's anything wrong with your organisation, you have to do your best to put it right.

'The thing I would say about the police is that they are essentially an arm of our legal system. Therefore that standard should be even higher, even less corrupt, with greater integrity and we come back also to the fact they're unaccountable. You have to have a leader in these circumstances, particularly where we're looking at a number of what we think to be miscarriages of justice. The current commissioner is probably part of the problem and not necessarily the solution. I just don't think she has the correct set of skills to do what is needed to do with the senior police force for us to have a great, respected reputation around the world.

'I'm sure it still thinks it has but they are the example bearers to the members of the public, who have to believe in trust in the police because they have so much power. And therefore, when you have a lot of power, you have to be doubly sensitive about how you exercise that power. And all we see is this culture of cover-up. They put their personal and organisational objectives before the pursuit of justice and the protection of the public.'

BBC star who won £250k Payout

Paul Gambaccini was arrested over false sex abuse allegations in 2013 and spent a year on bail before the case was dropped by then Met assistant commissioner Dick's Yewtree detectives. In an out-of-court settlement last year, the Met agreed to pay him £250,000 over privacy breaches.

'The contract of Dame Cressida Dick must not be renewed,' he said. 'I do hope that the Prime Minister and the Home Secretary would show the courage of their predecessor Theresa May in dealing with the bully. She's the only politician of either party this century who's disciplined the police. And it is up to Boris Johnson and Priti Patel to show that they have the courage of Theresa May.

'How can Dame Cressida say she is 'a woman of honour' when she was gold commander for Jean Charles de Menezes? You would have thought that would be a promotion-preventing debacle. For most people the past catches up with them. She is long past the point where her past should have caught up with her.

'Operations Midland and most of Yewtree are a complete sadistic and stupid fiasco. So we must ask the Prime Minister and Home Secretary to reform the police because it refuses to reform itself.

'And we must ask them to not renew the contract of Cressida Dick. Both the Prime Minister and the Home Secretary know about my feelings because I've spoken to them about it in their previous jobs. They can't plead ignorance. They must act.'

Son of a wronged D-day veteran

Nick Bramall's father, Lord Bramall, a D-Day hero and former head of the armed forces, was in his 90s when his home was raided by 20 Met detectives investigating Carl Beech's VIP abuse lies. The field marshal was later twice interviewed under caution by a detective, who asked him ridiculous questions. Dame Cressida sanctioned the launch of Operation Midland in 2014 when an assistant commissioner and has been widely criticised over her response to an inquiry into the 'Nick' scandal.

'Most people are responsible for their actions,' he said. 'Operation Midland was a complete fiasco and my biggest complaint is that nobody has been held responsible at all, not even a smack on the wrist. And that cannot be right. I mean, this was a disaster. It put good people through a very severe ordeal, you know, to be accused of child abuse, rape – in Harvey Proctor's case, murder – I mean, it's outrageous. And you know, no one's put their hands up and they bloody well should have done.

'Cressida Dick's name seems to crop up with every sort of disaster that happens, so she's very much at the forefront of this. Someone should be bought to book and they should come clean. They had an internal investigation whitewashed the whole thing, it's not good enough.

'I often said to Dad 'What would you have done in this situation? And he said 'I would have made it my business, if I was head of the Met, to get to grips with this. I would have asked all the right questions, I would have made it my business properly to come down and see those people involved, on the quiet'. I think he would have been much more proactive.

'His overriding impression of the police was he couldn't really believe that they had been quite so stupid. Whether they were also corrupt is another matter. This was a really appalling thing to put people through. You can't be accused of anything worse in life really, than being accused of abuse, murder, rape, buggery. I mean, it's terrible.

'If my dad had overseen this as Met chief he would definitely have resigned. He was a man of honour. If he'd been shown to be

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