Deter - Detect- Disrupt
The first thing we did was make some enquiries and found that the Metropolitan police had conducted a multi agency operation in relation to the illegal gambling in 2015 known as Operation Westminster Bridge.
The result of that operation included;
This was a good result, however it was 11 years ago and the operation was not victim focussed.
The key measure of the operation described in the report was to reduce calls to the location via the police control room by members of the public.
Further enquiries would be required with boots on the ground to see what was going on which would result in various developments and liaison with the Metropolitan police including writing to the Commissioner of Police Sir Mark Rowley.
We undertook plain clothes and uniformed patrols including maintaining surveillance and disrupting an 8 person illegal gambling team before they were able to scam their first customer.
We would like to keep the community and volunteers involved as we continue with our enquiries, we will publish any documents or enquiries we are making that we feel are suitable for publication in the public interest, if the police and the two local authorities have been unable to resolve this problem for decades, any small wins by us at this stage is a bunus in helping to keep visitors and tourists safe.
Our plain clothes volunteers disrupting illegal gambling team, calm heads, no violence, photos of all team players.
See you on the next post!
"Courage and Integrity"
