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Police not responding to 999s
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Now the area I live in suffers a lot of car crime, mainly break-ins. The other day I'm putting the bin out when a car comes zooming round the corner, handbrake turns and then stops by knocking into a bin. I go round and have a look and theres about six kids stood round it, youngest about 12, oldest 17 max.
I don't recognise them as residents, they are driving recklessly around my estate and the cars well overloaded plus I had serious doubts about the driver being old enough and the legal owner of the car. So I call the OB. They tell me after numerous questions they will be round immediately...
Twenty minutes later I go out and have a look, kids still mooching about the car, no OB. Get back on the phone tell them and I'm told they are still on their way. Well that was about ten days ago and no visit, no phonecall, nothing. What really pisses me off is that I assumed they would want to speak to me and stayed up waiting, also if they weren't coming why not just say 'we're not interested' ?
Is this standard now in your areas, as the last two incidents I've reported have not been attended? What is the point of all this crimestoppers crap if they are not interested in stopping crimes?
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I don't recognise them as residents, they are driving recklessly around my estate and the cars well overloaded plus I had serious doubts about the driver being old enough and the legal owner of the car. So I call the OB. They tell me after numerous questions they will be round immediately...
Twenty minutes later I go out and have a look, kids still mooching about the car, no OB. Get back on the phone tell them and I'm told they are still on their way. Well that was about ten days ago and no visit, no phonecall, nothing. What really pisses me off is that I assumed they would want to speak to me and stayed up waiting, also if they weren't coming why not just say 'we're not interested' ?
Is this standard now in your areas, as the last two incidents I've reported have not been attended? What is the point of all this crimestoppers crap if they are not interested in stopping crimes?
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Thats my experience anyway.
i've had numerous problems with people breaking into sheds i own ...the old bill never turn up. apart from a few months ago when i cuaght one and smaked him in the face with a pick axe handle. no witnesses so i got away with protecting my own property.
i handed in a computor which i know contains child porn ...that must have been around october ...not one person has been questioned or interviewed or asked for a statement.
...and whowhere as a copper dares to make statements that people who don't pay their taxes won't be getting any help from the police! presumably ...most of us are down as tax dodging scum who don't deserve help from the police.
what do they fucking do ...?
Its a pretty quiet suburban part of town. I could have told them I was heading outside with a baseball bat which would have got them round pronto but was trying to be the law-abiding citizen.
The other which I was forced to use once is to tell them quite calmly that if they don't turn up you will take the law into your own hands. That resulted in two of them including a senior officer coming round to sort it out. You shouldn't have to go to those extremes and its nothing something I would recommend but I was at the end of my tether in that incidence.
Round here if a red job appears (persons at scene) everyone drops what they're doing and goes to it so something like people in your back garden would be attended.
Burglaries where the criminal has left the scene aren't urgent, no matter what the resident might think. there's no way we can catch the criminal immediately so it's better to send the scenes of crime officer a day or two later who can also take a statement.
As for going after a car with kids in it, blues and 2's are a bit of a giveaway that we're coming, and with all the crap we get from the media and the left wingers about high speed car chases it's not worth it.
Now you're seeing the result.
By which time the family will have cleaned their house and repaired the damaged windows etc to prevent more break-ins. Talk about loss of evidence...
Policing has become more of a problem the older I get. Crime prevention seems to have gone out the window, at the expense of motorists (who are criminals I know) and in a effort to avoid being labelled as "institutionally racist". It's sad.
We have a village bobby, which is nice. Except it takes him a week to come round if you report anything...
The thing is Whowhere, the car was parked and the kids were outside it hanging around which I told the police. As it is the likely outcome is after trying twice now to report crimes and getting no response, what incentive do I have if I see another crime going on to report that? The police keep telling us they need our help but yet theres no interest when we do, what kind of message is that?
Either way, in all honesty I'd never trust the police, or get involved with them again.
my parents live in a 'nice' area of leeds, and every time they've called the police (even on the non-emergency number), they've been round pretty quickly.
and at the moment i am living in a pretty deprived area of wakefield, and when we were burgled a few weeks ago, i called them on the non-emergency number and we had a policeman round at our house within 30 minutes.
so i think it's maybe more to do with the area you live in, and not just whether it's 'rich' or 'poor'.
I suppose its all to do with staffing and how important your "incident" actually is and how its affecting whats going on.
Call me Mr Naive but wouldn't that help detection of the criminals responsible?
If they had kids giving them lip they'd go back in a transit van, pick them up and drop them off 3 miles away in the countryside.
It taught them that they'd only get respect if they gave it back, and from what I've heard it worked a lot better than any ASBO could.
They also told me a story of what happens when citizens realise the police's hands are tied with most things.
One night a known car thief living in a childrens home had nicked one too many cars.
That night the local hardmen stormed the home, kidnapped the kid and bundled him into a transit van.
The next day he was found tied to a goalpost, naked with CAR THIEF written across his chest, crying like a baby.
He never stole another car.
They're counting the hours before it happens again, because we, and the law abiding are sick of kids running riot.
Or they just don't want to spend too much money on putting them through courts.
As for respect Whowhere, I've met some pretty disrespectful coppers... I mean from my experience and a lot of people in my area will agree with me, they don't like rockers. Alledgedly they're homophobic too... But I've had some be very rude to me, so why should I respect them? Why should anybody put their trust in a force that is always letting us down? (In my area I mean)
There's respect for us as human beings yes, but some coppers I've met have appeared as if they're above low lives like myself and my friends. But hey, at least they've appologised for two of the three occasions they've let my family down.
I don't believe many of them really care for our safety, all most of them seem to want to do is be all self-righteous and arrest and 'teach' 'disrespectful' people a lesson or check cars... which I see more as a weakness in a force, not a respect for human life.
But then that's my opinion and the opinion of a few people I know.
:eek2: I don't.
hard to believe i know but ...report a crime at your house and you will be seriously pissed off at the lack of anything being done.
the victorians would print for anything ...now ...too many crimes.
Car gets nicked in a bad area, OB called and do not attend.
Later another car theft reported in a nice area, OB round like a shot. To find car from bad area parked next to where car from good area used to be.
Both the owners knew each other.
Still nothing was done.
I love the police
I have no idea as to the state of police resources and so i cant really make any other comment apart from the fact that it seems i hear far too many of these incidents.
But be thankful you can call the police.
Try living in Rio De Janiero.
You could still appy for PCSO mate. Security checks on criminal records aren't as stringent as they are for the regulars.
It's a joke really then.
Having worked with some former copers I understood that they knew who the crimals were - generally - but often lacked enough evidence to convict. Surely therefore it would be an idea to collect such evidence
How much does it cost to continually attend burglaries which could be reduced by arresting the criminals earlier...
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/tees/3454039.stm