Like most people, I suppose, I have mixed opinions on our Constabulary - or the 'Old Bill' as they are frequently referred to. Not, I hasten to add, that I have had much contact with them! I suppose, in my usual lazy way, if I was asked for an opinion on them I would come up with some 'smart Alec' (or 'Dim David!) remark to the effect that they were 'over-weight, over-paid and never 'over-here' when there was a burglar about'!
Well, not for the first time, I appear to have it all wrong. According to reports in The Telegraph today:
Britain’s National Crime Agency, with European law enforcement bodies, had spent four years trying to crack [a European IT] system without success. But in April, cyber specialists working with the French police managed to hack into the network without being detected.
They were able to eavesdrop on millions of chilling messages and harvest a treasure trove of evidence. Nikki Holland, director of investigations at the NCA, said: “It was like getting the keys to Aladdin’s cave”, while her deputy, Matt Horne, likened it to “cracking the criminals’ Enigma code”.
Unaware they were being spied upon, gangland bosses were unwittingly providing evidence the police could have only dreamed of. As well as drug deals and gun running, law enforcement agencies intercepted gangsters as they planned assassination hits.
In one case killers were intercepted on their way to kill a rival drug dealer.
Within weeks, more than 740 suspects had been arrested and millions of pounds in illicit cash, tons of class A drugs and vast caches of firearms seized.
Now that is what I would call a RESULT! Well done, Constable!
They've been so busy hacking code that they've not had time to arrest the scrotes who attacked the cenotaph.
Posted by: Whyaxye | Friday, 03 July 2020 at 17:14
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He made some people uncomfortable.
Posted by: Whitewall | Saturday, 04 July 2020 at 14:45