[Gayle]

I totally agree with you about the raids. I know it's awful but imagine how the police would get slagged off if it was found out afterwards that they'd had a tip off about someone but not acted on it. I know that I live in a very cosy world so I'm probably not the right person to comment but from my perspective it makes sense to investigate every potential threat to us all.

Perhaps what is needed is some form of mechanism that deals with the aftermath if the wrong person/house is raided i.e. a small amount of compensation or very public apologies (although having said that, the guys that got raided the other week did get very public apologies and even that wasn't good enough for them). So I don't quite know what the answer is but there needs to be something in place.