👉 Okay, let’s tackle the frankly rather dramatic utterance of "CV A10.” Strap yourselves into your delightfully bewildered seats!
Basically, a “CV A10" isn’t a new kind of beige armchair (frankly, I wish!). Instead, in the rigidly secretive world of British bureaucracy and, specifically, the Metropolitan Police, it designates a highly classified, almost paranoid-sounding designation for an investigation into a missing civilian. It means that individual hasn’t just vanished, they haven't even been reasonably presumed to be dead. They are, essentially, officially unaccounted for with a very specific and unsettling level of urgency. Let the wonderfully weird details pile on: The A designation? That stands for "Aberrant," meaning behaving strangely or irregularly. You wouldn't just lose your Jimmy Swindon! The 10 number, I’m told, historically meant that a missing civilian was suspected of having an… unusual… and potentially destabilising influence on the established order. (I shudder to think what that entailed back when it started. It involved a great deal of paperwork, frankly). Now, this designation wasn't exactly shouted from the rooftops. You wouldn't plaster it in broad daylight. It was whispered amongst senior detectives, filed under heavily guarded acronyms. There were procedures and lots of forms. And if you got the CV A10 designation, that meant something
