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Robert Poste's Child Wrote:

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> Without wishing to sound callous (it's someone's

> son/brother/friend, after all), a few more

> high-profile chases and arrests like that should

> quickly make a difference to the moped-mugger

> crimewave.


Indeed - I don't think it sounds callous at all, sounds as though the police did a superb job of chasing them halfway across town and capturing them without a single police officer, suspect or member of the public being hurt. Proof, were it needed, that with the requisite resources and manpower they can do the job brilliantly. If only the law and order party hadn't tied one hand behind their backs...

Passiflora Wrote:

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> There was a heavy police presence on Denmark Hill,

> Camberwell and surrounding areas yesterday which I

> noticed and automatically thought of the Elmington

> Estate deaths and stabbings?


Someone was stabbed to death in Walworth,the suspect was arrested on Denmark Hill.

ianr Wrote:

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> Does anyone have any rough idea how many flights a

> day use the KCH helipad?


When we lived almost opposite the hospital, and Ruskin Park where they used to land, there was a rough average of about one every two days, one assumes it's remained about the same.

There was an article on Sky News about Major Trauma Centres the other day (KCH is one) - they've saved quite a few lives apparently. So I guess it doesn't just serve London but a proportion of SE England.


https://news.sky.com/story/more-lives-saved-because-of-major-trauma-centres-11477258

King?s College Hospital is one of four major trauma centres in London, serving a population of 4.5 million people from South East London to the Kent coast. Over the past year and a half, there have been 362 landings on the helipad, which is an average of four landings every week. Previously helicopters had to land in Ruskin Park and then move patients to a road ambulance, adding 25 minutes to the emergency transfer. In the first year after the helipad opened, 162 patients were brought to King? by air ambulance.

slarti b Wrote:

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> I think I was also told that the new helipad is

> larger than at other London hospitals. This means

> that bigger helicopters, eg Coastguard

> helicopters, can land there. If true this may

> increase the number of landings.


This is to my mind a wonderful.

even one life saved is a valuable thing

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