Pest controllers were called to an office in Kennington, south London, used by weapons and technology experts at the Metropolitan Police after reports of ‘mice everywhere’.

According to internal police reports, a family of mice even set up home in one police worker’s desk – burying themselves in his paperwork.
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“Action was taken to remove the mice from the premises and there have not been any sighting of mice since.”

A spokeswoman for the Met said that the ‘paperwork home’ set up on one desk by mice consisted of ‘paperwork that did not relate to operational police matters’.
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Lambeth cops spend more than £25,000 on vermin exterminators last year, including £4,299 to get rid of ‘unwanted birds’ and £12,018 on ‘rodent or mammal extermination’.

The sum also included £108 for ‘getting rid of geese’, although a police spokesman could not shed any further light on this particular expense.

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  1. Ah_Yea says:

    They spent HOW MUCH??

    I’ve got a better solution.

    One cat.

  2. ECA says:

    1 cat will catch 2-3-4 per day…
    how about 12 cats..??

  3. sargasso says:

    The geese, are gone Baby. Geese are gone.

  4. Animby says:

    “…cops spend more than £25,000 on vermin exterminators last year, including £4,299 to get rid of ‘unwanted birds’ and £12,018 on ‘rodent or mammal extermination’.”

    How much to get rid of vermin cops?

  5. Reader1 says:

    Why this is posted here , what is this ? is it important?,

    This blog usually have good stuff posted , that is why i am regular here , but this isn’t one of them.

    Distraction of the DAY.

  6. Reader1 says:

    sorry for double post , it wasn’t intentional, before the Captcha screen I went back to change something , than it got double posted for some reason.

  7. Macbandit says:

    How are mice in offices a news story?

  8. honeyman says:

    Sheesh. Clearly humour bypass surgery is on special this week.

  9. clancys_daddy says:

    I suspect the costs associated with vermin control were those fall all of the police stations in the organization not just the one, although the article is not clear on that point. May be like citing one precincts costs vs the whole departments.

  10. Uncle Patso says:

    That’s nothing — I have two mice sitting on my desktop right now!


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