{"id":207003,"date":"2014-06-10T03:25:23","date_gmt":"2014-06-10T03:25:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/2014\/06\/10\/hi-i-dont-know-if-anyone-has-already-brought-this-2\/"},"modified":"2014-06-10T03:25:23","modified_gmt":"2014-06-10T03:25:23","slug":"hi-i-dont-know-if-anyone-has-already-brought-this-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/2014\/06\/10\/hi-i-dont-know-if-anyone-has-already-brought-this-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Hi, i dont know if anyone has already brought this one up before. But what is Lestrade division? If robbery\/burglary wasnt his division (Moriarty’s case) why did he deal with the Waters gang?"},"content":{"rendered":"

wastingyourgum<\/a>:<\/p>\n

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sherlockmeta<\/a>:<\/p>\n

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Hello! Thank you for your question! I talked to Labelle<\/a> about this, who is a genius, and here is our take on it:<\/p>\n<\/p>\n

LESTRADE AND THE WATERS GANG<\/strong><\/p>\n

Lestrade\u00a0is a detective inspector for the CID in the Metropolitan Police Service.<\/p>\n

The Criminal Investigation Department (CID) is the branch of all Territorial police forces within the British Police and many other Commonwealth police forces, to which plain clothes detectives belong. It is thus distinct from the Uniformed Branch and the Special Branch.<\/p>\n

CID officers are involved in investigation of major crimes such as rape, murder, serious assault, fraud, and any other offences that require complex detection. They are responsible for acting upon intelligence received and then building a case.<\/p>\n

As a CID officer, he would deal with the robbery of the Waters gang as it is in his jurisdictional area.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n

NOT MY DIVISION<\/strong><\/p>\n

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As for Moriarty\u2019s case in TRF, when Lestrade he says \u201cNot my division\u201d, he means because it is the Tower of London that has been broken into- it\u2019s not the MET\u2019s division. Because they don\u2019t police that part of London.<\/p>\n

The City of London Police is the territorial police force responsible for law enforcement within the City of London, including the Middle and Inner Temples. The force responsible for law enforcement within the remainder of Greater London, outside of the City, is the Metropolitan Police Service, a separate organisation.<\/p>\n

Scotland Yard is the MET, not the City of London. By not our division, he means this crime was committed in the City of London police jurisdiction, not in the MET\u2019s jurisdiction.<\/p>\n

He\u2019s talking about the separate divisions within the city.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n

Hope we helped!<\/p>\n

Much love xx<\/p>\n

Lucia<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

I answered someone asking (almost) the same thing in a post a few weeks ago<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Here\u2019s the bullet points:<\/p>\n