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It sounds you think the UK police are able to perform a sufficienty thorough search in a matter of hours. That sounds ideal and of course theoretically feasible

• Closi 5y ago
  > For anything longer than hours they are always going to (and IMO should) remove a suspected person from a position that directly involves children. This is the bit I disagree with personally, as I think it conflicts with 'innocent until proven guilty' when a person can be removed from their position and have their reputation destroyed by the police without sufficient evidence to convict (remember - no charge was ever made from the police). It's pretty feasible to do an initial scan of a few devices within a few hours - and if you don't find enough evidence after a few hours of looking then IMO you don't have enough evidence to ruin someone's life (go get more evidence first in that case!). The 'blast zone' of this investigation was ultimately two innocent people's reputations ruined in an attempt to find one guilty person (who wasn't found). (Again, reasonable people will disagree on how far an investigation should be able to go prior to charge - my own view is clearly more on the 'protect the innocent, even if it means investigation is harder and a few baddies escape justice' side than some others might be!)