Really?
She said that it had been a reasonable position for cops to take as the police's priority was to catch the criminals.
No, it's an entirely unreasonable position. Even the dumbest, pigshit-thick woodentop would know that their chances of actually getting their paws on the culprits is somewhere around sod-all.
Rather less if, as is usual, the scrotes are happily ensconced in Russia or anywhere else where law enforcement is deaf, dumb, blind, drunk, stupid and susceptible to bribes just in case a miracle happens.