Perhaps the most brilliant feat of /Mr. Wardrop's police career was his successful offensive against armed kidnappers in the Settlement in the spring of 1028, which resulted in the arrest of G4 suspects, many of whom Were later sentenced to long terms in prison, Acting on information obtained from a solitary suspect, Mr, Wardrop, then a detective-sergeant at Dixwell Road Station, conducted raids which caused not' only. the seizure of scores of other alleged kidnappers andthe confiscation of firearms and ammunition but also the liberation of a seven-year-old boy, for whom a ransom of $300,000 had' been demanded, and four other kidnap victims. One of the leaders jot the gang was shot dead by the police. Detectives attached to vart= ous stations participated in the raids Jas they progressed following Mr.
Mr. Wardrop is survived by his father and a brother In Scotland. He iwas due to have gone Home on Teave in February, 1988, His mother died there last May and the news of her death was a severe blow to him.
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