After searching every flat in a tower block, police have concluded £100,000 worth of stolen firearms have been sold off as air rifles.Two things here - I know this is Essex, but surely no-one can honestly claim they didn't know the difference, and..every flat?
How on earth do they have grounds for this?
Do a search for "Shannon Matthews". Police turn up and search an entire council estate. Cars, lofts, sheds, lockup garages, the works.
ReplyDeleteNow call me an old cynic, thinking this was nothing more than a fishing expedition, but the amount of binbags/boxes of ill gotten being moved around at that time could quite easily have held the body of a 7 year old.
Now before all the "What if it was your daughter?", accusations start flying about, searching old dears in sheltered housing who were invalids and hadn't set foot out the place in 11 years, is not a valid use of Police resources.
Budvar - that particualr 'investigation' was a shocking FUBAR of massive proportions. Although it is New Addington - there are some nice, pleasant, normal people there, suffering at the hands of utter scum.
ReplyDeleteI think you have got these hide and seek contestants mixed up,Shannon Matthews was in Yorkshire.
ReplyDeleteJaded
Quite so, WC Jaded. They are equally inefficient but in all other respects the two services are incomparable. In Yorkshire, road safety is paramount. Hence the dogs drive to the search scene before deploying sniffer plod from the back of the van.
ReplyDeleteJaded, my point still stands, if it was all about "Safety of the child" Police resources would be better spent focusing on usual suspects/family than turning over 1200 households. The culprit turned out to be an "Uncle" living several miles away in Batley. It turned out to be a scam, and young Shannon was found to have been hiding under the bed playing X-box games for a fortnight.
ReplyDeleteYou may as well introduce Jaded to the theory of wavelike particles existing everywhere, Budvar. Her conceptual limits are rigidly fixed.
ReplyDeleteThat said Melv, he was right in his observation re the 'incidents' being commented on. Completely different, the only common denominator being the Chavistocracy involved.
ReplyDeleteBudvar-thanks for the history lesson.I'm sure in some way it was the police's fault.
ReplyDeleteMelvin-google translate needed once again.
Jaded
"Chavistocracy"... Welcome to my world..
ReplyDeleteAt the risk of labouring the point, where on earth do they get magistrates to sign off on these far reaching warrants? There has to be a name on the things, and there has to be reasonably compelling evidence for the issue of said warrant other than "Ere guv, word as it that a loada shooters have just been blagged out the back of a black'n'tan..".
We either have the rule of law or we don't.
I'm not having a go per se' at the Police, but I am questioning abuses of power for no other reason than those of expediency.
ReplyDeleteWe carry on down this route, where do we draw the line?
Warrants granted on "Ere guv, my snout has fingered the Rabinawitz boys for the blag, an eye witness descriptions of 2 geezers wearing frock coats and yarmulkes, whistling Ava Negila fits them to a tee...". Is fair comment and what police work should all be about.
Sending in squads of flatfoots to turn over the old folks home, the nurses quarters and the vicarage because "Profiling" is seen to be so un PC, and we can't be seen to be singling people out, is just bullshit and you know it.
@ Educatid (sic)
ReplyDelete"Melvin-google translate needed once again."
Just replicate the procedure you used for finding your first reference to 'Leda and The Swan' and enter 'wave-particle duality'.
"...searching old dears in sheltered housing who were invalids and hadn't set foot out the place in 11 years, is not a valid use of Police resources."
ReplyDeleteWhich would lead to accusations of 'profiling' from the usual suspects...
"Completely different, the only common denominator being the Chavistocracy involved."
A common denominator indeed...
"We either have the rule of law or we don't."
I'm leaning towards the latter...