The force said the largenumberof arrests had "produced a huge amountof pressure" on officers responsible for transporting, receiving and registering detainees.
Thomas then explained that unless a significant amountof money was offered on the stock exchange in a very short time, alargenumberof failures would result.
This botnet would then send alargenumberof requests to the DNS which would reply, resulting in a much larger amountof data being fired at the target, causing it to be swamped.