Sydenham Ward Police Survey

Well, the fact that your officers are currently standing idly by while people are openly congregating within a marked-off police cordon in Bell Green (and thus potentially contaminating the scene of a murder) says it all, really.

There was quite a police presence there earlier when I passed and the cordoned area clear.

There’s also quite a public presence there, too. I understand that the murder took place outside peoples doorsteps and it would be unreasonable to suggest temporarily reallocating them during the process of gathering evidence but a clear line should be drawn. There are large groups of people congregating within a stone’s throw of the forensics tent itself, which in my opinion must be a breach of protocol.