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AK47…it prevents them from ever jamming no matter what muddy, dusty or freezing conditions they’re used in.” The man pauses to look around before explaining a little more “The AK47 is the gun always used by the baddies in war films; it’s instantly recognisable because its magazine has a distinctively curved ‘banana-like’ shape, and that’s because of the taper on those casings. Anyway, like I say, ballistics positively identified them as soon as they saw them. Also we were lucky enough to recover two rounds. Despite being pretty mashed-up, they’re currently being checked for a match against our database of known criminal firearms.”
    The man sits down, relieved to no longer be the focus of everyone in the room.
    When the guvnor asks what’s known about the vehicles used, John Gibson steps forward to share the CCTV images with everyone and whilst he sticks his six best print-outs onto the incident wall he simultaneously reports back on the license plate numbers and when and where the stolen vehicles had been reported to have been taken from. Then he turns round to face his colleagues and offers his deduction that the driver of the black Merc with the plate KRON05 was chauffeuring the head of Kronos Capital Management into work, and just yards away from his London office he’d been the target a carefully planned attack. There’s no banter in the room, everyone’s too busy thinking about the scenario that John’s putting forward, weighing it up, considering potential motives (mainly down to the fact that the intended victim is clearly very rich) and then speculating on the type of criminals most likely to have been behind such an attack.
    In turn, everyone else chips in with their information until everything known to date’s been declared. Next, the boss details out the work he wants various small teams to focus on. Several CID are tasked with interviewing the eye witnesses who have already come forward, some with finding out what’s happened to the missing truck. Crime scene teams will focus on gathering evidence from the abandoned BMW and on Birchin Lane. Other policemen will spend the next couple of days grilling all the snitches in London to see if they can discover who supplied the guns that were used and another pair of detectives are detailed to track down the two men who fled from the battered BMW.
    John Gibson is ‘on his tod’ today because his long standing CID partner, Bill Warren, has booked this Monday off to take a long weekend away with his wife. Nevertheless, because the pair of them frequently get used in bank-relations work the gaffer assigns them the important task of interviewing the apparent targets of the incident, the head of Kronos and his chauffeur. John’s chuffed with this assignment as it’s clearly key to the whole incident.
    Whilst John is thinking about the best way to approach his part of the task the DCI continues doling out the remainder of the work. Uniforms will keep Birchin Lane closed to the public until scene-of-crime-officers complete their work. This won’t be for at least another 24 hours, possibly longer. In the mean time the guvnor declares that he’ll be organising a news briefing at the scene this very afternoon, so he can get some TV coverage to quell the growing public concern being fuelled by the press. He explains he’ll use the opportunity to appeal for further eye-witnesses who have yet to make themselves known to come forward.
    Additionally, four uniforms will put in a bit of HVP (high visibility policing) around the area for the rest of the week, questioning city-workers moving through the area; in particular they’ll focus on people coming into work between the hours of 7 and 8 o’clock each morning.
    With the meeting over, the crowd of officers breaks-up and John migrates back to his desk. He jots down some notes and makes the call to Kronos HQ to arrange through