“It again embroils their officers in a high-profile investigation, where the chances of success are unclear, and which will divert limited investigative resources away from other matters.” Lord Bradshaw, a Liberal Democrat peer and vice chairman of Thames Valley Police added: “I am mightily worried about the politicisation of the police force. What appears on the face of it to be fairly innocuous orders … it’s a fairly short step from there to telling the police they have got to investigate this rather than that.”