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A few reasons why cops didn't immediately shoot down London Gatwick airport drone menace

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Re: police have been doing extremely well

"The police have been doing extremely well at catching drone operators operating around prisons......"

So they say.

Elsewhere, the UK public have a rather different experience, in general.

"County line" issues suddenly seem to be a prominent excuse for our largely dysfunctional police HQs failures over many years to respond to the will of the public. It goes back at least a decade or two, in my experirence.

I used to live in a pleasant soutn Birmingham suburb, in one Police Sector, and if crimes were committed by incomers from a different Policing Sector (y'know, like two kilometres away) there was apparently "very little that can be done" (officially).

I do absolutely agree that life for most of us would be a lot better if the chance of being nicked and held accountable for misdeeds was significantly greater than zero. So did quite a few feet on the street in the police. But they have more exciting things for HQ (and the justice system in general) to spend money on.

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