The man who encouraged British Prime Minister to censor the web in order to protect children from evil pedophiles has recently faced child porn charges himself. It is known that Patrick Rock has been closely involved in drawing up Government policy on online censorship. However, it looks like while he was filling Prime Minister’s head with the terrors of pedophiles, he was at the centre of a police probe over images of child abuse.


It went as far as searching No 10 and examining IT systems and offices used by Rock (a deputy director of the Downing Street policy unit) by detectives from the National Crime Agency. Patrick Rock was known as a protégé of Margaret Thatcher. He has held a series of senior posts in the Conservative Party and was described as Prime Minister’s “policy fixer”. Rock was close to be rewarded with a Conservative peerage.
In the meantime, this isn’t the first time that Patrick Rock has been in trouble. Media reports remind that he has also been the subject of a sexual harassment complaint from a civil servant working in Downing Street. However, that complaint was buried by Cameron's advisors which miffed the rest of the staff at Downing Street.
David Cameron's time with Patrick Rock goes back to the Home Office – they both worked under Michael Howard in the 1990s there. When Prime Minister brought Rock back into Downing Street three years ago, it was welcomed by critics as heralding the return of a 'grown up' to the centre of government.
Although Patrick Rock is innocent until proved guilty, his arrest has made Prime Minister’s crusade against online porn look really stupid. The private joke here is that there’s a psychological theory saying that people who complain most about something usually have something to do with it. Now people laugh that an anti-child porn legislation might have been drawn up by someone it was designed to catch. This makes many to wonder if it was really created as a semblance of a law while never actually arresting real pedophiles. Anyway, Patrick Rock was arrested under the old laws, so they seem to be working rather well.