'What we're asking officers to do is deal with one fatality, then another and then another,' members of a special unit are told.
Bereaved families are being asked not to travel to register offices to notify officials of relatives' deaths, as register offices will contact them by phone.Mr Matthews said detectives on the squads would also assess the scene of deaths for any signs of"suspicious circumstances"."We understand people are now socially isolating, people are being held and that can obviously put up instances of domestic abuse," he said.
A total of eight units are operating across the capital at any one time around the clock, made up of a police constable, detective, firefighter and a clinician, volunteers were told.
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