BREAKING: Police Federation Boss Arrested for Corruption
The Chief Executive of the Police Federation of England and Wales, Mukund Krishna, has been arrested on suspicion of corruption. The Telegraph has the story.
Mukund Krishna was arrested with two other national board members by officers from the City of London Police.
The arrests followed an investigation into allegations of financial wrongdoing at PFEW, which represents 130,000 rank-and-file officers across the country.
Krishna, a former management consultant, is the first Chief Executive of the PFEW and is reported to earn more than £320,000 a year.
On Wednesday, officers carried out a series of raids on premises in Wales, Somerset, London and Surrey to arrest suspects and gather evidence.
Det Supt James Halkett, of the City of London Police Domestic Corruption Unit, said: “The City of London Police Domestic Corruption Unit are leading a criminal investigation into allegations of fraud made against three individuals connected to the national PFEW.
“A 46 year-old man from Surrey, a 51 year-old man from Wales and a 55 year-old man from Bristol were all arrested on suspicion of fraud by abuse of position.”
Worth reading in full.
Toby called on Krishna to resign last month after the High Court found he acted unlawfully in suspending and barring from re-election two Federation chairs who had spoken out on behalf of officers. As the Free Speech Union reported at the time:
This week, the Free Speech Union secured a major victory in the Administrative Court of the High Court after Mrs Justice Obi ruled that the Police Federation of England and Wales (PFEW) acted unlawfully in suspending two elected Federation Chairs and barring them from standing for re-election.
For the first time, the judgment established that the PFEW is a public body subject to the jurisdiction of the High Court.
Rick Prior, former Chair of the Metropolitan Police Federation, was suspended in October 2024 for expressing the views and concerns of the 30,000 rank-and-file officers he was elected to represent. In an interview with GB News, Prior warned that officers were becoming increasingly reluctant to challenge individuals from some ethnic minority groups for fear of vexatious complaints or being labelled racist. The following day, he was suspended by the Police Federation for doing precisely what his role required.
Another former Federation branch chair, Richard Cooke, was also subjected to unlawful treatment by the PFEW. PS Cooke, the elected Chair of the West Midlands Police Federation, used social media to challenge claims that policing in the UK is institutionally racist. As a result, he was suspended, required to undergo Diversity, Equality and Inclusion training, and prohibited from standing for re-election.
The High Court found that the suspensions and subsequent restrictions on both officers’ ability to hold office were unjustified, disproportionate, and in breach of their Article 10 rights under the European Convention on Human Rights (ECHR).
Elected police representatives must be able to speak freely on behalf of the officers they serve, without fear of reprisal from unelected officials. In this case, both men did exactly that.
The Court’s emphasis that commentary on race relations and policing standards constitutes core public-interest speech — attracting the highest level of legal protection — was particularly welcome. Preventing elected representatives from speaking out, or from standing for re-election, requires rigorous justification, which the Federation wholly failed to provide.
This ruling represents a significant victory for free speech and common sense. The Free Speech Union is proud to have supported Richard Prior and Richard Cooke throughout this case and is deeply grateful to those who generously contributed to the crowdfunder that made this challenge possible.
The landmark judgment has far-reaching implications for freedom of expression beyond the police service. It confirms that suspension must never be used casually or as a tool of ideological conformity, particularly where lawful speech on matters of public interest is concerned. The ruling strengthens protections for workers, representatives, and office-holders facing disciplinary action for expressing lawful but controversial views and sends a clear message that casual bias and echo-chamber thinking carry legal consequences. It also establishes that disciplinary proceedings brought by the PFEW — already under close scrutiny — are now subject to review by the High Court.
Commenting on the judgment, Lord Young of Acton, General Secretary of the Free Speech Union, said: “The Court has ruled that Mukund Krishna, Chief Executive Officer of the Police Federation of England and Wales, acted unlawfully when he suspended two elected Federation Chairs and banned one of them from running for re-election. In my view, he has no choice but to resign.”
The Free Speech Union will now be pursuing the PFEW for costs.
Click here to read the judgment in full. You can also read more in the Telegraph.
Read Laurie’s profile of Krishna and his appalling record on persecuting the rank-and-file here.
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The only reason this corrupt PoS is in his position in the first place is the DEI race baiting industry. So naturally he has to defend it at all costs.
You should see what the rest of them are up to…
Helping Muslims rape white girls? Bribes? Arresting a Catholic for tweeting men with penises are actually men?
Well done to Toby for calling this corrupt Indian or Muslim clown out.
It is what you get when you allow immigrants from dodgy parts of Asia to have positions of power.
Really? Did you see the part where two other senior board members were also arrested? I guess we wait to see which ethnicity they are because if they’re white bang goes your theory. Speaking of debunking assertions based on blatant racism, try these examples of people being done for corruption who don’t happen to be brown for size; ”Former senior staff members at two leading energy firms have been jailed for accepting over £2 million pounds worth of bribes in exchange for commercial contracts. Mark Baker (56, from Goole) and Matthew Heyward (51, from Newton Abbot) were both employed at E.ON as Head of Build and Quantity Surveyor, later moving to work for British Gas. Four other defendants were sentenced at the same court: • Timothy Neil Paterson (56 of Derby) – four years in jail • Richard King (51 of Lutterworth) – two years and five months in jail • Angela Baker (53 of Beal, Goole) – suspended sentence of 13 months • Andrew Mark Blunsdon (57 of Winscombe) – suspended sentence of 12 months” https://www.cps.gov.uk/cps/news/former-senior-staff-eon-and-british-gas-jailed-accepting-bribes ”The former leader of Reform UK in Wales has been sentenced to 10-and-a-half years in prison after admitting taking bribes for pro-Russia interviews and speeches. Nathan Gill,… Read more »
Let’s do per capita and see whether there is greater prevalence among some ethnicities relative to their representation in British society.
“… two other senior board members were also arrested? I guess we wait to see which ethnicity they are…”
Corruption spreads.
Yes do. Are you volunteering?
I’ve already done my research, you do yours.
Then why aren’t you sharing your ”research” as opposed to posting snarky comments?
Yes, positions of power that would be DENIED TO THEM in countries like ISRAEL, for example, and many other countries around the world, whose legislatures put their own people first, like Poland and Hungary.
Is anybody really surprised?
In every direction one looks there is grift, more often than not in the form of some organisation, like this one, claiming to represent some interest or other. Basically, a minor protection racket of some sort.
Our society seems to consist of an ever expanding bunch of grifters leaching off an ever shrinking productive base of people through a huge network of protection rackets.
Let’s have another go, DS . . .
Importing millions of low IQ people from low trust, high fraud countries was never going to benefit the west.
What are you basing your claim on that this guy has a low IQ? His heritage? Ethnicity? His background is working in business recovery and digital transformation across the US, Europe and Southeast Asia. He has an MBA, which is graded higher than my humble Nursing Diploma, and I don’t have a low IQ. So where is your evidence to support your assertion?
https://dazzlingdawn.com/2025/11/28/mukund-krishna-the-ps14m-turnaround-ceo-splitting-the-police-federation
Hmmm . . . did you get my previous post removed on this free-speech organisation website?
Oh and my Cycling Proficiency badge trumps your Nursing Diploma.
I don’t report people’s posts because that would make me a hypocrite. I’ll hazard a guess the moderator removed it due to your obvious racism. We must have one on duty that’s actually got some standards and does their job properly, for a change. I came back to reply to your comment and then it had gone.
Nice one! 🙂
“What are you basing your claim on that this guy has a low IQ? His heritage?”
Yes that… and he got caught.
Along with his two colleagues, who haven’t yet been named, so we wait and see what colour they are. Don’t let facts ( or lack, thereof ) get in the way of the usual racist and hostile comments we can expect in this place. Thank the gods I hold no truck with echo chambers and have the ability to look at things objectively.
HOW MANY ETHNIC INDIANS ARE IN CHARGE OF ISRAEL’S POLICE FORCE?
ZERO, as is PERFECTLY SENSIBLE.
Moderator here
I have deleted the rest of this Comment. Please tone down the insults. This site is about moving debates forwards, it is not hosted for the purpose of exchanging insults
Oh aren’t you the brave one today?
HOW MANY MUSLIMS ARE IN CHARGE OF MOSSAD?
ZERO. As it should be.
Israel has the right to be an ETHNO & RELIGIOUS STATE.
AND SO DO WE.
😀😀😀
Temper, temper. You are heading for the naughty step.
😂Nice one.
“Why don’t you call your fellow Jewish people in Israel “racist & hostile”, you egregious hypocrite,”…
And the supporting evidence for your terminally tedious accusation would be…in the Bermuda Triangle of your ass, as per?🧐🤷♀️ I thought you were going to ask one of your nice moderator friends to retrieve said ‘evidence’ from the archives, no?
I mean, if you’re alleging that’s what I said then it shouldn’t be hard, right?
Or perhaps you prefer to keep demonstrating you’re the obsessive pathological liar that you evidently are…🤡🤥
“A bee does not waste its energy trying to convince a fly that 🍯 is better than 💩.”
Later, hater 👋
Your own words are the supporting evidence, which you keep denying again & again, as if everyone on here has defective memories, and cannot recall your verbal attacks on everyone here after the Oct 7th massacre and kidnapping of helpless Israelis, when you declared that you were Jewish, and accused us all of “antisemitism” for not being sufficiently outraged at that terrible atrocity. Your crude, disgusting attempts to deny your own previous words is truly creepy, and you need to remember that the moderators have a COMPLETE ARCHIVE of all comments.
The onus is on you, as my accuser, to go find the evidence to support your assertion. You can’t prove a negative.🤷♀️ Until you do so you’ll continue to look like the fantasist troll that you clearly are.
Why aren’t any other commenters backing you up if this actually happened?;
“…when you declared that you were Jewish..”
You repeat yourself ad nauseum yet not one mod has brought forth the alleged ‘evidence’ either. Why do you think that might be?🤔 Do they have “defective memories” too?🤭
“Innocent until proven guilty” is a thing. Keep slinging mud in the hope that something sticks, though.🤪
THE MODERATORS KNOW EXACTLY WHAT YOU HAVE SAID IN THE PAST. I don’t need to “prove” anything.
So go cry to them then. They might perform an elective colonoscopy so that they can retrieve this elusive ‘evidence’ you maintain exists out of your ass!👀🥼🔙🔚
To the Moderator:
You seem to be preventing anyone from responding to Mogwai’s repeated hypocritical insults to Britain and the British People and the commenters on this website, and yet you allow her to spew as many insults in as crude, gross and disgusting a manner as she likes.
It seems quite biased to me, but that is just my own opinion.
I don’t think IQ correlates very much with dishonesty.
More diversity at work strengthening our “society”.
There isn’t a single one of our institutions not riddled with corruption. grifters and fraudsters.
”Diversity” like Brian Chant, and all of the aforementioned corrupt whities? 🤣 Because it only seems to be a problem when it’s a brown person behaving badly, for people like you, doesn’t it??🤡
”A FORMER police IT chief from Andover who conspired to ensure a £22 million contract was awarded to an IT company, has been jailed for bribery, money laundering and false accounting offences.
Brian Chant, 62, of The Middle Way, abused his position as Chief Information Officer (CIO) at a company in Oxfordshire to secure a multi-million pound contract for an IT company which he had previous connections with.
Chant was in charge of the Information Communication Technology department within Hampshire police, as well as neighbouring Thames Valley.
An investigation by the City of London Police found that Chant had received over £474,000 in bribes over the course of his employment with the company.
Chant was sentenced last month at Southwark Crown Court following a six-week trial in December 2021.
He was sentenced to six years imprisonment for bribery and 18 months for false accounting to run concurrently.”
https://www.andoveradvertiser.co.uk/news/19974377.former-police-chief-andover-jailed-22million-contract-plot/
Not for long, though, because The Equality Act was never put to a vote in Parliament, just shoved through on the nod, and is therefore NULL & VOID.
Bye, bye, DEI …
Not “earns”, receives £320,000 pa.
100%, I was about to write that.
Some sources say he gets paid – certainly not earns, over £700k
Excellent work, Sir Toby & the Free Speech Union legal team! Here is some more information from an Indian news outlet:
Mukund Krishna: The £1.4m ‘Turnaround’ CEO Splitting the Police Federation
“Born in India and relocating to the UK in 2007, Mr. Krishna is a career management consultant rather than a police officer.”
“While rank-and-file police officers struggle with the cost of living, often resorting to food banks, Mr. Krishna was paid a total of £1.4 MILLION POUNDS over 2024 – 2025.”
“However, the optics of a corporate consultant earning THIRTY TIMES THE SALARY of a starting constable have created a bitter divide. For decades, the Federation was led by officers, who understood the visceral reality of policing the streets.”
“The salary details were only released after a protracted Freedom of Information battle initiated by a Chief Inspector of the Greater Manchester Police.”
“Lessons will be learned?”