Keeping quiet

"When we found bone fragments and teeth in a home where we were investigating alleged abuse, what did people expect us to do? Ignore it? You won't find any police force in the country which would have kept that quiet," he said.

Erm, actually, yes.

Investigate by all means. But there's no need to make self-aggrandizing claims and factual assertions to the press before proof and a reasonable interpretation are available.

A hypothesis is not a finding of fact.

Statements like this to the press can taint a case and cause it to be thrown out. Not good police work by any means.

I'd tell them to use their "nut," but it looks like they already did :)

Dante