Well That Was Unfortunate.

As I mentioned on Thursday (3/4/14) I experienced possibly the world's worst burglary. On Sunday (6/4/14) a Chief Inspector from the Metropolitan Police's Croydon borough phoned my father and told him that he would be visiting him today (7/4/13) to discuss any concerns he had and how best to progress with the investigation. I must say that at the time I got the impression that this Chief Inspector simply intended to give my father the usual run around of attempting to intimidate him by telling him there was absolutely nothing that could be done before suggesting that my father invests in some very expensive and totally ineffective security measures.

Perhaps it was when this Chief Inspector realised that he would in fact be talking to me about how to proceed with several outstanding felony offences that can be actioned at any time he decided not to turn up.

I'm personally viewing that decision as a mistake because there has been quite a lot of international reaction to Thursday's events. For example on Friday (4/4/14) Italy rushed through a European Arrest Warrant for Domenico Rancadore - a suspected Mafia boss who has been on the run in the UK for the last 20 odd years. This of course forced the UK and specifically the Metropolitan Police to demonstrate that they can indeed execute arrest warrants against members of organised crime gangs and remand them in custody. More dramatically in the early hours of Saturday (5/4/14) morning a millionaire British Businessman - Andrew Bush - was shot and killed by an unknown intruder in his home in Malaga in Spain. As Bush is from and owns a number of businesses in Bristol, UK where my lesbian wife has been held hostage since 2006 the message was quite clear - if the UK continues to protect Croydon's criminal element higher value British assets abroad will simply be killed in retaliation.

Sadly rather then stepping back, taking a deep breath and carefully considering it's next move the UK responded in it's usual fashion by throwing a massive tantrum. So in the early hours of Sunday morning three women from the United Arab Emirates (UAE) were attacked by a man with a hammer in their suite in the Cumberland Hotel in prestigious Mayfair district of central London. One of the women was severely injured and the investigation is being treated as an attempted murder. As I have a bit of a reputation with hammers this was the UK enquiring as to whether rather then simply targeting higher value assets abroad nations would be prepared to eliminate problems within UK borders. After all a nation that cannot defend it's borders most certainly cannot protect gang members or even police officers in Croydon. If you think the UAE mind having their women beaten to death you've clearly never been there.

Possibly due to existing tensions over Gibraltar the UK also took specific aim at Spain. So on Sunday afternoon two British women - Uma Ramalingam and Barathi Ravikumar - effectively threw their children into the sea off Tenerife forcing the local authorities to mount a rescue operation. As is the danger with this type of stunt both women drowned. Although in the publicity photographs that have been released the women appear to be Arabic I suspect from their names they are of Indian heritage. This of course brings in the not exactly small issue of India's General Election which began today and being the largest democratic election ever is expected to last a full eight weeks. The fact the deaths occurred in the sea touches on  the search for Malaysian Airlines flight MH370 and may have been an attempt to convince the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) to speculate whether the natural environment is conspiring to kill off British citizens while they're meeting to discuss the next section of AR5. Of course by killing off it's own people the UK seems to be giving the impression that it wouldn't protest too loudly if an ally were prepared to resolve an issue they can't be seen to be doing themselves. Mind you it is the UK's obligation to keep its own house in order.

Personally I think it rather then going to all that effort it would have been much easier if someone in the UK intelligence community simply phoned up the Croydon borough Commander and informed him that the meeting with me should go ahead because it is time for the police to leave the criminal organisation. This seemed to be a hint that the leaders Police Federation were trying to drop this afternoon. After all while there can be no suggestion that the criminal element can continue to have a presence in the borough it might be possible to negotiate a solution whereby the apparatus of state such as the police, Courts and the local council are allowed remain intact but only after some serious restructuring.

Obviously having had my time wasted today I am now much less likely to agree to that compromise. However if I receive a constructive phonecall tomorrow I may be prepared to reconsider. Hopefully by that point the Brits will have realised they haven't won one since at least May 2013 and it doesn't look like their chances are going to improve anytime soon.

19:20 on 7/4/14 (UK date).

Edited at around 17:15 on 8/4/14 (UK date) to add;

Sadly we did not receive a constructive telephone call from the police today. However my father did call the local Safer Neighbourhood Team (SNT) who attended at around 16:30. As these were just two lowly constables who lack the ability to deploy the necessary resources this was a very short meeting. However the matter is now being taken up with the borough burglary division and the Chief Inspector of all the SNT's in the borough. Obviously it would be unprofessional of me to publicly identify that commanding officer. Hopefully though he understands the obligation now upon him.

What I found amusing though is that the two officers spent most of the roughly 35 minute meeting bemoaning how their pay, pensions and resources have been cut year on year since these problems began without once identifying the causal link. So clearly not detective material then.

Edited again at around 12:30 on 9/4/14 (UK date) to add;

This is barely worth a full post but two hours after I was scheduled to wake up two detectives from Croydon's burglary divison paid my father and I a short visit. The summary of this is that they are going to arrange a meeting next week between me and Chief Inspector in charge of the division. Ideally they will coordinate with the Chief Inspector of the SNT and the head of the local council's enforcement division so I only need to give one tutorial in zero tolerance policing. However I suspect that all three are already well versed in the concept but are simply choosing not to employ it.

Of course as we have these discussions they will attempt to argue that the law prevents them from doing certain. As such I feel I should point out that I don't just say these things. In fact I check and re-check them before sending them out for peer review. This means that in every single case I'm talking about the probable cause threshold has been met. After all to establish probable cause it only requires a police officer to say; "I think I smell cannabis" or "I think I hear sounds of a struggle." As such if any Croydon Judge refuses to sign off on the actions the matter will simply get refered to a higher Judge and the refusing Judge will be placed under investigation for links to organised crime.

(Originally Posted on 7/4/14)