John Salway was Detective Chief Inspector of the Metropolitan Police Service during the 1960s and 1970s. He was arrested in 1974 after he was discovered to have been on the payroll of Soho crime boss Benny Barratt.
Biography[]
John Salway served as a Metropolitan Police Service officer in London during the 1960s, becoming a DCI and head of the Met's "Dirty Squad", which investigated the city's drugs and porn rackets. Salway and Commander Harold Chapple were notoriously corrupt, accepting bribes from the Soho crime boss Benny Barratt to ignore and occasionally protect his underground porn empire. In 1970, they stymied Roy Johnson's inquiry into allegations of corruption in the Met by convincing the other detectives in their department not to cooperate with the investigation, but, in 1974, the new Met Commissioner Michael Jellicoe cracked down on Barratt and had him arrested. Barratt was found in possession of tapes which incriminated Salway, Chapple, and several other Met policemen, and Salway and a recently-retired Chapple were arrested at their homes and brought to justice.