My gran was woken in the middle of the night by a commotion outside. Burglar in the garden being tackled by plod after being caught red handed trying a few houses in the street. When they caught up with him he was trying to pry open my gran’s garage with a crowbar. He was duly arrested and the whole street went back to bed. The next morning my gran (who used to work in the magistrates court) found a heavy duty bag of tools in the garden left behind by the burglar. Phoned the police, quoted incident number, told them to come and pick up the evidence. Nobody showed. The day later the crook has been released due to lack of evidence (despite being caught red handed). There’s literally evidence at my gran’s, and nobody has collected it. Much protesting is done, once again explaining there’s a huge bag of evidence here. Apology given, and a promise an officer will come to collect ASAP. Officer never shows. 3rd phone call, same apology, same promise, same no-show. Then a few days later she gets a leaflet through the letterbox asking her if she knows anyone who might have any evidence! Couldn’t make it up. And on the same day while she was out shopping, a parcel came for her. My grandad is disabled and it takes him a while to get to the door. He finally got there and the delivery driver hadn’t yet driven away. He had the parcel in his hand. Then he tells my grandad he can’t give the parcel to him because he’s already logged it on the system, so he’ll now have to drive to pick it up, when the parcel is right there in his hand! What is happening to the world?
Email the local Insector raising the issue and Copy in the Chief Constable and Alan Billings the Police and Crime commissioner...you'll get a response then.
But you feedback to the people in charge that the process if flawed (or rather ******* stupid) but it's not the process, always the person. Grinds my gears.
Similar thing happened to me albeit a while back. Somebody tried to nick my car, got as far as springing the ignition when he got run off. When I got back to my car a bloke came over, said it was a local scumbag and he was fed up with him and would be happy to give a statement and identify the thief.There we’re marks all over the car, but the boys in blue said they couldn’t take it any further due to lack of evidence!
One of my relations had his work van broken into and tools stolen. Blood in his van from where they'd cut themselves,found his toolbox in a ditch with blood on it, CCTV footage of them doing it. No evidence apparently
True story. Someone I know was once woken by the sound of his neighbours garage being robbed. Whilst stood at his landing window, watching the thief in action, he called the police to tell them the crime was happening there and then. He got the generic answer that someone would attend as soon as possible but that they were busy. Twenty minutes later, and the burglar still loading stolen tools into his van, the neighbour called again, and got the same reply. A couple of minutes later and with the burglar all set to drive off with his haul, the neighbour, for the third time, called 999 and said ‘don’t bother sending anyone, I have shot him!’. Within minutes there were three police cars and a helicopter, but too late to catch the burglar. But instead, they arrested the neighbour for wasting police time. And before anyone asks why he didn’t confront the burglar, he was in his 70s at the time.
He won't have been released due to lack of evidence. Burglars aren't kept in custody, they get released on bail. As to the urban myth of @Julian Broddle's Perm post, I've read that more times than I can remember on SM!
My van was nicked at the begining of September twice within the first week I was told the investigating officer would contact me in 2 days first when I reported the theft and the second time when I received a call from a civilian worker telling me the crime was being "put on their system" a week after the theft. It's now 2 months since the theft and I've heard absolutely nothing from them since the second call. SYP is a joke
Stop moaning. The police have work to do. https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news...police-bullying-after-mooning-at-speed-camera
My son works in an aquatics shop in a big garden centre. The other night he showed me footage of him confronting a shoplifter. The guy is well known, they know his name, his car reg and even his eBay account that he sells the stolen goods through. Despite several reports to the police, they do nothing. Apparently the crime has to be worth over £1000 before they will even send an officer out. Meanwhile this bloke just keeps nicking stuff and selling it on eBay like it's a regular job.
I'm sorry you've had a bad experience with the Police. It's something that seems to be common place, or at least that's all that you hear about anyway. For balance, we actually had a good experience a couple of months ago. My partner even said her faith had been restored in the police a little after, as she's previously found them to be unhelpful in what was quite a difficult time for her. We were burgled in the middle of the night, one Sunday morning about 2 months ago. I'd left the kitchen window on the latch, which apparently is easy enough to shake open. We think they just leaned inside and took what they could reach, which was my wallet and my partners car keys. We realised we'd been burgled after being woken up by the doorbell, and a lady returning my wallet, which she'd found a few streets away. My card was missing, but having checked my online banking, no money was missing. We called the Police at 9:30, and by 10:15 they'd come out to take a statement. They were very understanding, and whilst they pointed out how the crime probably took place, they did it in a manner where they didn't make me feel at fault. They left about half an hour later and said that forensics would be there within an hour. 45 minutes later, forensics arrived and did their bit. Whilst they were there, we received a call from the 2 police officers who had visited previously, to say they'd found our car, seemingly in one piece, abandoned about 2 miles away. They kept in constant contact with my partner over the next few days, keeping her informed about what would be happening with her car, until she was able to go and collect it. They asked about everything in it, from the surgical gloves my Mrs had kept in the glove box for filling up at the height of the pandemic, to the pound coin she keeps under the petrol flap release catch for when she goes shopping. Unfortunately the perpetrators couldn't be identified by forensics, and the neighbours ring doorbell didn't quite pick anything up, so they'll never be found. But we were dealt with how you'd expect to by the police. Sadly, I'd like to say yours is an isolated incident, but it seems it isn't. I'd like to think that you only hear about the bad examples.
Sometime last Spring/Summer we had some commotion in the early hours of the morning. Someone had been caught trying to break into another house and been chased through the gardens and into ours where the sight of my undressed form frightened them away... A couple of days later we found a crowbar hidden under a bush at the side of the garden gate so I called SYP and a police van came out to collect it a day or so later. Now, it might be that our MP was involved due to a few break-ins on the estate - so more attention was being paid, or we were just lucky.
On my parents cul-de-sac where I grew up an empty house three doors away was being vandalised. My Dad phoned the police and the police asked him if it was his property. He replied it wasn't and the house was empty. He was told it was a Council problem and basically to stop being a busy body.
