Hatton Garden jewellery heist: Police deemed ‘no response necessary’ when intruder alarm activated!

The raid, in central London’s Holborn, is believed to be one of the largest in British history and may have netted the thieves property worth £200million, yet the police failed to respond when notified that the intruder alarm had been activated.

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Police have revealed that when the intruder alarm was activated during the multi-million pound Hatton Garden jewellery heist, they deemed ‘no response was necessary’.

Astonishingly, despite the fact that millions were being stolen during the daring raid, the Met’s automatic call response system decided officers did not need to attend.

The Metropolitan Police Service says that it received a call from Southern Monitoring Alarm Company at 21 minutes past midnight on Friday, April 3.

The call stated that a confirmed intruder alarm had been activated at the Hatton Garden Safe Deposit Ltd, and was transferred to the force’s computer aided dispatch system.

For some reason the call was given a grade that said the police didn’t need to attend, despite the fact that an estimated £200 million in jewellery was being stolen.

The Met says it is investigating why this happened.

A spokesman said: “MPS has been making initial enquiries into what calls were received relating to the Hatton Garden burglary last weekend.

At this stage we have established that on Friday, 3 April at 00:21hrs a call was received at the MPS Central Communications Command (MetCC).

“The call was recorded and transferred to the police’s Computer Aided Dispatch (CAD) system.

“A grade was applied to the call that meant that no police response was deemed to be required. We are now investigating why this grade was applied to the call. This investigation is being carried out locally.

The daring jewel theft at Hatton Garden Safe Deposit sounds like the plot of a big budget Hollywood heist movie.

But for those people who have lost priceless treasures in the heist, it is a grim reality.

The raid, in central London’s Holborn, is believed to be one of the largest in British history and may have netted the thieves property worth up to £200million.

Police say between 60 and 70 safety deposit boxes were prised open by a gang of crooks, who broke into the premises on Bank Holiday Monday after disabling the alarms.

Earlier this week, the Metropolitan Police Service gave a press conference on the incredible crime. Here’s what we know so far.

Not a lot is known about the criminals, except for the incredible skill with which they pulled the theft off.

Former Flying Squad chief Barry Phillips described the raid as “highly organised” and “sophisticated”.

Former armed robber Noel Smith has said a ‘foreign team’ could be behind the heist, but speculation about an inside job points to British operators.

He told Sky News: “I’d say a vast amount of planning went into this. For a job like this from a criminal’s perspective you’d want a maximum of five people on the job itself. They would probably have been out of their by Saturday and then the stuff would have gone out of the country. That’s my personal opinion – it’s long gone. It is too early to say if the handling of the call would have had an impact on the outcome of the incident.”