Have they still not found 'im yet ??

[Paddy]

from bbc News

CCTV image of Moat was only released six days after it was recorded.

On 2 July, police received a warning from Durham prison that Moat planned to harm his ex-girlfriend.

Moat was recorded on CCTV in a Newcastle shop on Friday - the day before Miss Stobbart and Mr Brown were shot - but these images were only released as police reissued an appeal for help from the public on Thursday.

IMoat visited a friend at 2330 BST on Saturday to deliver a letter but that friend was not kept under surveillance so that when Moat returned to deliver a second letter the police were not there.

And an armed robbery at a fish and chip shop in Seaton Delaval, near Blyth, on Monday night was not formally linked to the hunt for Moat until Wednesday.

A robbery at this fish shop on Monday was connected to Moat two days later Police only released details of Moat's getaway car, a black Lexus, on Tuesday morning and they got an immediate response. Rothbury resident Isabelle Wilson noticed the car while walking her dogs and contacted the police after hearing their appeal.

That led to the search for Moat focussing on Rothbury, yet police were slow to respond to a farmer's report of smoke from what turned out to be the gunman's campsite.

Then on Tuesday night a house was broken into. Armed police responded and checked the property but did not keep watch over it afterwards and it was later broken into again.

[minestrone]

Can they not just get 20 rednecks from the Alabama swamps and 4 bloodhounds?

That always works.

[threaded]

What happened to our indigenous UK trackers who could follow a trail of ginger footprints and broken grass stems? Is this yet another sorry tale of local expertise going abroad for good? What about bloodhounds?

Actually you're quite spot on with that comment...

In one branch of the 'law enforcement industry' the New Lie made it, if not illegal, very uncertain if it was, to do certain types of forensic work, so the guys upped sticks. There're several that work from Denmark/Sweden now that I know.

[MarillionFan]

Can they not just get 20 rednecks from the Alabama swamps and 4 bloodhounds?

That always works.

I bet your glad the government ploughed all that money into the National DNA Database hey Minestrone?

Really helped here hasn't it!

[Doggy Styles]

I think we should all take precautions at work in case he suddenly appears.

+++STOP PRESS+++
He is not under my desk, I just looked.

[fullyautomatix]

The plod are too busy ticking boxes and signing off papers to make sure that they meet the targets. The sooner these Labour inventions are ridden off the better. Half the force is doing paperwork rather than fight crime.

In my county they have built a new head quarters for the police and the maintenance is 'outsourced' to a private company. This means that even if it a basic task of refilling the bog rolls, the police have to go through ten steps. Earlier it used to a chap going across to the local shop and getting a new roll. Now it is , filling in a request form, sending for approval, request logged in database, outsourced company acknowledges request etc etc.

[Zippy]

The plod are too busy ticking boxes and signing off papers to make sure that they meet the targets. The sooner these Labour inventions are ridden off the better. Half the force is doing paperwork rather than fight crime.

In my county they have built a new head quarters for the police and the maintenance is 'outsourced' to a private company. This means that even if it a basic task of refilling the bog rolls, the police have to go through ten steps. Earlier it used to a chap going across to the local shop and getting a new roll. Now it is , filling in a request form, sending for approval, request logged in database, outsourced company acknowledges request etc etc.

And they charge you £20 for the bog roll.

[OwlHoot]

He is not under my desk, I just looked.

Was that just an excuse to ogle the good looking lady sitting at the desk opposite?

Pervert!

(Oh hang on, sorry, I was thinking of Wilmslow)

[Doggy Styles]

Was that just an excuse to ogle the good looking lady sitting at the desk opposite?

Pervert!

Yes. And she is Finnish.

[Sysman]

And they charge you, the council tax payer, £20 for the bog roll.

FTFY.