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Hats off to the bobbies

Telegraph View: It's a pleasure to be able to congratulate the Metropolitan Police on their impeccable policing of the royal wedding. 
8:12AM BST 02 May 2011

The Metropolitan Police have been the target of a great deal of criticism in recent years, some of it justified. So what a pleasure it is to be able to congratulate them on their impeccable policing of the royal wedding.

The first and most important thing to say is that they did their job. Troublemakers were rounded up before the event and – perhaps not coincidentally – there was no serious disruption to the happy proceedings. A formidable security challenge was handled superbly. But, more than that, Friday's display of British tradition also revived memories of the traditional bobby. Instead of men in sinister riot gear, we saw good-natured officers with helmets and whistles. And all of them, mysteriously, chose to turn a blind eye when a young man drove his bride down the Mall in a sports car with an illegal joke number plate.


