Those escaping any action include former Met commissioner Cressida Dick, who the inquiry accused of obstructing her work. Morgan was found dead in a south London car park in 1987 with an ax to his head. No one has been convicted of his murder. The Morgan family reacted with anger and dismay to the announcement by the Independent Office for Police Conduct (IOPC), having spent 35 years fighting what they see as a cover-up and failure to tackle corruption. Last year, an independent review ordered by the government personally criticized Dick for obstructing his work. On Wednesday, the IOPC announced that after 14 months it believed no new criminal or disciplinary charges could be brought in the case, which is one of the biggest scandals to hit British police. Regarding Dick, the Met’s commissioner until February this year, the IOPC accepted he may have broken the rules, but the watchdog said it still could not take action because the alleged breaches were not serious enough and should it’s blatantly bad behavior. The IOPC said: “We assessed that he may have breached police professional standards of conduct by failing to provide full and immediate disclosure to [panel] earlier, although not to an extent that would warrant disciplinary action. On this basis we have no reason to exercise our power of initiative. “We found that she acted in a genuine belief to protect the information, but she may have struck the wrong balance and should have given higher priority to her duty to provide full and excellent disclosure to the committee.” Dick continued to defy and said: “I disagree with their analysis that my actions ‘may indicate a breach of standards of professional conduct’ and that ‘I may have struck the wrong balance.’ The Morgan family accused the police watchdog of sharing the same “disease” as the Met, adding: “What we find here is a rather poor exercise by the IOPC in avoiding the consequences of police corruption and criminality which the report has forced them to do of the committee. recognize. “In the same vein, we see the IOPC being forced to find that former Commissioner Cressida Dick ‘may have breached police professional standards’ in the obstructionist attitude she chose to take towards the commission’s work, but then they go looking for reasons not to use their powers to act on that finding. “In doing so, the IOPC shows that it is suffering from the very disease in its own ranks that it allegedly diagnoses within the Met.” Morgan, 37, was found murdered on 10 March 1987 in the car park of the Golden Lion pub in Sydenham. With his business partner, Jonathan Rees, Morgan ran an agency called Southern Investigations. He would go on to do extensive work for the News of the World. The panel said the Met was “institutionally corrupt” and placed protecting its reputation above the truth, all charges the force under Dick denied. Subscribe to First Edition, our free daily newsletter – every morning at 7am. BST Five Met inquiries into Morgan’s murder have failed to produce a conviction. Concerns about police misconduct and links between corrupt officers and sections of the tabloid media led the government to order the Leveson inquiry in 2013 after The Guardian revelations about phone hacking. Dick, an assistant commissioner when the Morgan panel began its inquiry, had to fulfill the Met’s promise to cooperate fully with the panel, which had no legal powers to investigate and therefore relied on those investigating to agree to hand over evidence. The panel accused the force of putting reputational concerns ahead of properly tackling corruption. He said the Met had misled the public and Morgan’s family, compounding their pain. The panel criticized police delays in providing access to a database of relevant documents, called “Holmes”, and Dick is named as one of those responsible. “The committee has never received any reasonable explanation for the refusal for seven years [then] Assistant Commissioner Dick and her successors to provide access to the Holmes accounts to Daniel Morgan’s independent commission,” they said. Sal Naseem, regional director for London at the IOPC, said: “We are very aware that not a single officer has been successfully prosecuted or received any significant disciplinary action as a result of corruption directly linked to the murder investigations. “The wrongs that occurred can never be righted, but it may have served as a small consolation to Mr. Morgan’s family and loved ones if the officers involved had been held accountable and suffered the consequences of their actions at the time.” The Morgan family is suing the Met for damages.