The dedicated Met police officer who faced TWO YEARS of hell during warped investigation

During a career, spanning nearly 30 unblemished years, PC Edwin Sutton displayed — in the words of almost everyone who worked with him — 'professionalism, courage and integrity'.

PC Sutton, 49, wasn't interested in chasing promotion; he wanted to be at the sharp end. 

Most recently, that meant serving with the Roads and Transport Policing Command (RTPC) in London; officers from the unit can find themselves in pursuit of dangerous criminals or simply be required to attend the scene of a minor collision.

It's not a glamorous job compared with the more high-profile branches of The Met, but the role of the RTPC is vital in keeping the highways of the capital as safe as they can be.

Each day, officers like PC Sutton, make a difference to the lives of ordinary Londoners and others who work in or visit the city. One such day occurred on May 21, 2017.

What happened then, shortly after 5pm, tells us much about the kind of copper PC Sutton is but even more about the culture of modern policing where, so often, criminals are treated as victims and officers such as PC Sutton as criminals.

PC Sutton was stuck in rush-hour traffic on the North Circular Road, East Finchley, when he noticed a group of moped riders in his rear-view mirror — and one in particular — because a handbag was dangling from the handle-bar. He suspected that the bag had been stolen.

Of course, he could have simply done nothing; no one at the RTPC would have been any the wiser. But with PC Sutton being the officer he was, there was never any chance of that.

Instead, he slowly manoeuvred his patrol car into the path of the moped, which speeded up in a bid to get through but ended up 'grazing' his vehicle and ricocheting into another car; the rider, 17, was hurt and admitted to hospital with leg injuries.





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