DS Andrew Wainwright, OST + ELS (hons), Sandford CID

Joined February 2016
What leaving the Metropolitan Police does to a man.
Had to get a new passport because immigration kept sending me to secondary screening on suspicion that I’d stolen a fat Englishman’s identity.
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They're strictly for snatching phones.
Bikes 'not for jousting,' says Lime after duel video ➡️ bbc.in/4ibIlTe
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🚨 WATCH: Andy Burnham says he has an idea to ban VAR in Labour's next election manifesto "You'd accept it if it got decisions right, but it doesn't get decisions right"
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Proudfoot's spiteful analogy works because the destruction of France and of Gaza were both self-inflicted.
oh no, some buildings in France were destroyed
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Rioting is an inherent part of French culture and this bout is no different from the 1830 and 1848 Revolutions, when the revolutionaries invaded the Tuileries to take weapons, but put up signs saying "death to thieves" and summarily executed their own members who stole jewellery.
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The French police even get to work from home. Fantastic recruitment material.
La Policía en Francia está lanzando granadas lacrimógenas desde los balcones. Han dejado sin dientes, sin mano y sin ojo a tres manifestantes. Terrorismo es esto.
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El Salvador has solved crime by addressing the root causes of crime - criminals.
Even with crime rates already at razor thin levels, we’re still driving them even lower. On track to become the safest country in the world.
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Don’t think it’s been internalised what it says that Trafalgar Square now has to have anti-ramming bollards and gates about the terror threat. If these are to be permanent, is there not some way we can have iron gates befitting the dignity of the square?
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Never pleasant seeing Britain discussed in foreign media.
This @WSJ piece on the UK's runaway disability benefits is something else. Great color from @MaximColch & @davidluhnow
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This piece is typically awful. Rowley's assertion that increasing representation does not require lowering standards is entirely proven false by the saga of Cliff Mitchell, which the Met is guaranteed to repeat if it persists in its brain dead ideology. theguardian.com/commentisfre…
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I reckon I could reverse the Met's recruitment woes with a campaign based on just this image.
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It's not possible to complain directly to the IOPC. If they receive a complaint they forward it to the relevant police force, who then might refer it back to them if various criteria obtain.
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This must induce a certain cognitive dissonance given the identity of the people who actually threatened her.
🚨 NEW: Shabana Mahmood says the “far right” balaclava-wearing men should “sod off” “They’d kill me in a minute if they could, and they’d definitely kick me out of my own country. They don’t think I’m a true Brit”
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🤖 Made with AI
🚨NEW: It's been revealed that in 2003 the SAS secretly tracked down and killed two members of a gang who murdered six British military policemen in Iraq [@DailyMail]
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You see how fluently criminals lie. Maybe something Guardian/BBC journalists might want to reflect on before repeating their claims.
Shoplifters are running riot. Parts of the country are feral. If nobody else will confront them, I will.
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"Set to signal". Determined. Bold. Decisive. A leader for our times.
🚨 BREAKING: Andy Burnham is set to signal the end of the state pension triple lock in his conference speech tomorrow [@Telegraph]
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When I'm Home Sec (and the Home Office has taken back responsibility for prisons) I'm going to rebrand the Department to "the Rope Office".
Lucy Powell rebrands the Department for Education “the Department for Hope” “My Department for Hope, this government of hope, will put the children’s hopes at the very heart of everything we do”
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Inspiration. We will also maintain good relationships with NGO outriders like @strixperegrinus's charity who can do politically convenient intrusive investigations which we could never legally do ourselves.
A pro-death penalty charity called "Rope Not Rape"
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If someone's about to throw a petrol bomb at you or your colleagues you should be allowed, indeed obligated, to shoot them.
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I can't believe Danny Tommo tried to blow up RAF Fairford.
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