Sarah Kaplan, the Dover Crossings criminal identified as being the culprit for the large crime event across the Dover Strait, intended to use a central office building in London as her base of operations.
It’s not too far from Downing Street and also the main offices for the Civil Service. It would’ve provided her with a high profile location for an essentially criminal enterprise hiding as a type of humanitarianism and a career in political leadership.
This puts us in the problematic zone of proximity to the negative end of world events. It’s now clear that the illegal entries are being facilitated by greedy, underhanded people who seem capable of causing havoc on our streets in a criminal context.
Their infiltration of workplaces, of local communities, and even parts of our national capability is deeply concerning. It shows a long departure from normal modes of working to those that indicate a creeping participatory effort of illegitimate actors from across the world.
The restoration of civil order internally and also at external sites has not come without a large cost. It’s also caused disruption that will have to be put into future learning. It also has implications for the UK’s reputation in every place where we have a footprint overseas.