Senior officers may now be considering bringing Trident into the Homicide and Serious Crime Command (HSCC) wing of the Met, which is home to 24 murder investigation teams.
In Poland, a traditionalist and ruralist party, Samoobrona (Selfdefence), came third, nabbing seven seats. (Two other right-wing parties, the crime-bashing Law and Justice and the Catholic-nationalist League of Polish Families, also did well.) Two parties in Austria and the Netherlands, though not strictly Eurosceptic, campaigned successfully against corruption and mismanagement in Brussels.
So perhaps it is a sign of the gravity of Mexico city's crime epidemic that Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador, its populist left-wing mayor, has turned to Rudolph Giuliani.