Hampstead Thieves Move On

The two suspects who have been terrorising residents of Belsize Park and Hampstead have, according to

police, disappeared.

            It was made

public knowledge last week, not only on HampsteadPeople, but also in the local

papers, that the police had launched Operation Behrami in a concentrated

attempt to catch the moped bound thieves. The police have theorised that such

an obvious operation to catch the thieves has scared them off. I imagine this

theory is pretty accurate; as a great man once said, ‘criminals are a

superstitious cowardly lot’. I doubt anyone with an ounce of intelligence would

continue in such a spree once they became aware of the police efforts. The

question is though, did they go the correct way about it?

            It’s pretty

obvious that the suspects would most likely disappear as soon as there was a

strong risk of them being caught and I’m sure the police were well aware of

this. I imagine operation Behrami was more of a deterrent than an attempt to

actually catch the suspects. I hate to say it, but I’m sure there are people

out there who agree with me (the victims possibly), I would rather have seen

these criminals caught. Surely an equally concentrated, but less public

effort, would have produced the desired result? Obviously, protection of the

public is of primary importance to the police and they succeeded in this, but it

just seems that now there’s a risk that the suspects are just going to move to

another borough and continue their spree elsewhere… Thoughts?