"So you are now Chief Constable in charge. You have information that a prisoner is getting out and is possibly going to attack his ex girlfriend and her new boyfriend. You have no proof of this, just information. What can you legally do, other than inform the possible victims that they may be under threat?"
Well, for one thing, the police `authorities` as you corrected me, have admitted that they should have done more to prevent this from happening, they quite clearly had a very good source of information that Moat was pretty much immediately about to pay his ex partner a visit his pathelogical hatred of police and the fact that he is clearly (from his previous history, and what he had just served a term for), a `loose cannon`, that might have prompted me, as Chief Constable in charge, to place his ex partner under armed guard, which I would hope, would have resulted in Moat, upon his arrival, one day after being released, being either captured, or possibly shot, thereby saving the life of one innocent man (who, as it turned out, was NOT a policeman) and, as Moat said in his rambling written notes, had he known this he would not have shot him. Not only that, the capture or shooting of Moat, at THAT time, would also have meant that he wouldn`t have gone on to shoot and injury his ex partner, and also later, the traffic policeman.
As Chief Constable, what would YOU have done? Sat on your hands, as the Chief Constable in charge did in THIS case?
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