This England 2016/17

• Captain Haddock

  • Location: Marlinspike Hall
  • Registered: 8 Oct 2012
  • Posts: 8,072
  14 September 2017     16:13333656
  #1       report
  
  "We are living in very strange times, and they are likely to get a lot stranger before we bottom out"
  Dr. Hunter S Thompson
• howard mcsweeney1

  • Location: Dover
  • Registered: 12 Mar 2008
  • Posts: 62,352
  14 September 2017     16:34333657
  #2       report
  Great work in foiling plots however the proportion of convictions from prosecutions seems rather low.
• Captain Haddock

  • Location: Marlinspike Hall
  • Registered: 8 Oct 2012
  • Posts: 8,072
  14 September 2017     19:20333664
  #3       report
   howard mcsweeney1 wrote:

  Great work in foiling plots however the proportion of convictions from prosecutions seems rather low.

  
  
  'Responding to a question about the extent to which those arrested in connection with terror offences were prosecuted, Stuart clarified that the priority of the security services and the police is always to prioritise disruption of terrorist plots over conviction chances in order to protect the general public, highlighting the huge difficulties counter-terrorism officers face in deciding at which stage in the investigation to make arrests.'
  
  See:- http://henryjacksonsociety.org/2017/03/08/event-summary-hjs-report-launch-islamist-terrorism-analysis-of-offences-and-attacks-in-the-uk/
  "We are living in very strange times, and they are likely to get a lot stranger before we bottom out"
  Dr. Hunter S Thompson
• Captain Haddock

  • Location: Marlinspike Hall
  • Registered: 8 Oct 2012
  • Posts: 8,072
  15 September 2017     09:39333670
  #4       report
  'Today we were unlucky, but remember we only have to be lucky once. You will have to be lucky always.'
  
  
  "We are living in very strange times, and they are likely to get a lot stranger before we bottom out"
  Dr. Hunter S Thompson