And Officer Edwards and Officer Dunton will have their sad places in the latest chapter of a familiar police disaster.
In fairness, the obstacles are many: incompetency, corruption, the sheer complexity of disbursing huge sums, the multiplicity and difficulty of the tasks at hand — defense, education, health, prisons, courts, police, disaster relief, regulation of markets, banks, drugs, food safety.
"They're rotting," said Lisda Cancer, the head of the police disaster victims' identification team.
After all the other police disasters, we might have hoped the Met had got its act together.
When Lord Justice Taylor reported his findings four months after the disaster, he confirmed that the central cause of the disaster was policing failure, and in particular the failure to close the tunnel to the central pens, which he called a blunder of the first magnitude.
Governments use the maps for everything from improving policing and disaster response to planning new schools, roads and untold numbers of other services.
Amid warnings that the death toll was likely to rise, the government dispatched more than 3,000 paramilitary police and disaster response specialists to Yushu county, Qinghai province, where 85% of the buildings were said to have collapsed in the hardest hit community.
Establishing the age of unknown persons, or persons with unknown age, can provide important leads in police investigations, disaster victim identification, fraud cases, and in other legal affairs.
That means it could be used to resolve cold cases as well as help police identify disaster victims.
Asked "What do you feel about the Olympics?" the other day, a random sampling of people here gave answers that included bitter laughter; the words "fiasco," "disaster" and "police state"; and detailed explanations of how they usually get to work, how that is no longer possible and how very unhappy that makes them.
