When police announced last week that they had arrested three alleged would-be assassins en route to murder a man as he collected his children from daycare, the questions from reporters came thick and fast.

Did police cut it too fine in arresting the hired guns as they drove to the daycare centre? Was there a risk they could’ve got away in traffic? What if they’d taken a different route, changed their minds midway, shot another motorist as police closed in?

“This was a comprehensively thought-out and planned operation and, yes, it’s a balance of risk and evidence, and we will always fall on the safety of the community even if we burn evidence,” State Crime Commander Assistant Commissioner Scott Cook told journalists.

Police had been watching the men, who were allegedly planning the exe

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