World's police co-ordinate terror fight
(China Daily)
Updated: 2005-07-11 05:36

Their work has been made all the more crucial by the revelation that the CCTV system on the Number 30 bus had not been working since June. The broken camera is bound to cause consternation over the condition of the 6,000 CCTV cameras installed on the underground. Around 500 officers are now helping to scrutinise the footage.

Forensic work faces difficulties

Yesterday forensic experts continued to pore over the sites of the four bomb blasts. The government's Forensic Science Services agency has removed thousands of samples to its laboratory in Birmingham and several Metropolitan Police facilities in the capital for processing.

But the forensics work is hampered by the grim conditions in the Piccadilly underground system, located 500 metres from King's Cross. The tunnel near Russell Square in London's Bloomsbury district remains unsafe in the immediate area around the blast. Engineers are concerned that the crucial steel lining that strengthens the tunnel, which has been bored through clay, may have been ruptured in the blast. They are currently considering a plan to drag several carriages down the track to obtain access to the wrecked first carriage in the train where the bomb went off. It is believed that more than 20 bodies are still trapped in the wreckage.

A specialist team of senior police officers, coroners and medical experts is now trying to ensure that the bodies are correctly identified.

The daily meetings of the newly formed Identification Commission will take place at an undisclosed military site in central London, where a temporary mortuary has been set up.

Led by Westminster coroner Dr Paul Knapman, Scotland Yard's senior identification manager, Detective Superintendent Jim Dickie, and Home Office pathologist, Rob Chapman, the commission will be supported by a team of hundreds of police staff and other experts, many of whom have experience of major terrorist attacks or natural disasters, including the devastating Asian tsunami on Boxing Day.

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