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A policeman’s desk was piled so high with paperwork, food scraps and rubbish that a family of mice set up home there.

No matter which country we live in, we all have ideas and opinions about the police force and its methods. In UK like many other countries, the administration around police stations and its officers is huge and it has often been said that they spend more time on doing paper work than they do on policing the streets.

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Comedians make jokes about the police spending lots of time filling in pieces of paper, forms, computer data records and doing what is known as ‘pen-pushers’ work.  In one particular instance this clearly was not the case.

An office used by special weapons and arms force policeman in Kensington, London, had more inhabitants than anyone knew.  Paper work had certainly started to build up to an unmanageable level.

According to one officer who used the office as his work base each day, no on even knew that there was a problem until they found traces of mouse droppings on desks. They searched the place in their capacity as detectives and revealed nothing.

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Then, one morning when the door was opened at the start of the working day, there were mice running all over the place. A specialist pest control company was brought in to help the police to find the source of the problem.

It turned out that one officer’s desk was so untidy and dirty with food wrappers, bits of food, and sheets of paper that a family of mice had set up home there. The amount of mess was so deep that none of the policemen had noticed.

One policeman said that the office was a bit untidy but that the documents and papers used to build the mouse house did not include any papers relating to any current, or sensitive police matters.

A spokesman for the Metropolitan Police Force in London said that policemen were often reminded in memos and notices that their desks should always be cleared at the end of each day to make it easier for the cleaners to do their job. So, it was most unlikely that it would ever happen again. More information available here.