Two officers were allegedly escorted off the Cayman Islands after getting drunk on their police credit cards

SCOTLAND YARD has paid out more than £500,000 of public money to two of its own undercover detectives who blew the whistle on alleged lavish spending on meals and alcohol by one of the force’s most secret squads.

The detectives had sued the Metropolitan police after saying they had been victimised when they revealed alleged criminality inside the criminal justice protection unit, which is responsible for the safety of judges, jurors and witnesses in Britain’s most sensitive trials.

The officers, who received one of the largest payouts in the Met’s history, said there was widespread abuse of covert American Express and Barclays Visa credit cards by their colleagues, who allegedly used them to pay for lavish meals and large amounts of alcohol.

Detective Sergeants Frank