Lynne's Parliament and Haringey diary

Clearing up my emails, phone calls, paperwork etc. - and trying to make sure Christmas happens. I ran to Highgate Village this morning to the local bookshop - always a very good choice of books despite being tiny.

Suddenly the police arrived, put handcuffs on another browser - a young man - and marched him out. One of the policemen came back in the shop to say they had nicked the chap. The staff (two women) had seen a knife sticking out of his back pocket and he had been 'browsing' for about 40 minutes. Rather than tackle him directly they had called the police - quite rightly - but now one of them was saying she felt bad.

At which point the policeman outside yelled that they had found another knife in his rucksack. I told the staff they had done really well, and one of them said how quickly the police had come - within five minutes. The thinking was that the guy was waiting for the shop to empty so that he could then perhaps hold up the two young women. If so - foiled - thank goodness.

Anyway - I just wanted to put up a good news story - as we often forget - what a fantastic job the police do for the vast majority of the time. And when you spend your time looking for flaws in performance - it is really great to have the opportunity to put up a good news story. Well done both police and shop staff. And I bought 7 books!

Labels: knife crime