Colin Blamire was Commissioner of the Metropolitan Police Service until 1974, preceding Michael Jellicoe. In 1970, he was summoned to meet with the Home Secretary after The Times published a story detailing extensive corruption in the MPS, especially surrounding their association with Benny Barratt's associate Michael Frisch. Pressured by the media, he brought in his friend Roy Johnson, who had served alongside him in the British 8th Army in North African theater of World War II, to head the corruption inquiry. Johnson's report detailed a web of corruption which reached all the way up to Home Secretary Claude Seabrook, but Blamire chose not to read the report, fearing the embarrassment of media publicity. Instead, he promoted Salway in order to cover up the incident.