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denviks:

--- Quote from: Bob696 on September 20, 2009, 20:58:59 ---Last weekend a house alarm went off a few doors away at the same time as I heard a crash and a bang.

Phoned the police. Pointed out that this alarm NEVER goes off by accident and that I had hard a crash and bang.

The response was "we never come out to house alarms". Not even "we will send someone round if they are in the area".

Just a polite "get stuffed and stop bothering us by reporting crimes".

Oh and somebody had tried to get in the house. Jeez wouldn't that have been an inconvenience for the police. They might have caught someone.

--- End quote ---

exactly the same thing happened here about 6 months ago. we came home early house ( about 4am ) and could hear neighbours alarm going off and was told the same by police. neighbours were away at the time.

seems the house was broken into but nothing was ever done

Saffy:
Any places in the UK heading down the USA route of residential private police force and gated communities yet ? I can imagine soon the more wealthy areas will have their unadopted streets gated off with patrol and gate security paid for by residents.

Disco Matt:
To be fair though, the gated communities are usually in places where they'd be safe without the Stalag Luft 3 design. To use a naval analogy, we didn't try to build ships with armour that could stop torpedoes. We invented better tools to hunt U-Boats so they couldn't fire a torpedo in the first place. Do we want to hide in fortresses as society collapses around us or do we want to say "No more"?

The problem is that there are areas where for various reasons some of the inhabitants turn to crime rather than doing something difficult like working and saving for what they want. If you really want to make the country safer then these are the areas in need of attention. A good start would be recognising that the majority are probably fed up with the local undesirables but with a complete lack of community and tabloids peddling scare stories they don't feel that they can do anything about it. Nobody should feel that they will be alone in confronting anti-social behaviour.

discomummy:
Hi,

i have to say that when my sat nav got liberated from my car earlier this year - the police came around later the following day, and as the next door neighbour had caught the offenders on his cctv, they also dropped around later in the week to show us the piccies and let us know that they knew the vehicle as it had been previously reported as acting suspiciously! however i do live in a village, which is relatively crime free - the biggest thing that happened recently was when a party of blokes on a stag nite got drunk and caused some damage!  the police were called and they were hauled off!

so for me - no complaints, and i don't think it is those at the bottom that are the problem - it is the do gooders in the middle who cause the problems as they make the procedures that your average bobby has to follow, and most of the time going out and trying to catch crimimals is not high on the do gooders list! 

after our incident - the sergeant in charge had to phone me to see if i was satisfied with the way my incident was treated - if he has to do this on every incident (and he does cos i asked him) - how much time does that waste that could be dealing with other incidents instead!

i accept that there are some rubbish police, but isn't that what we as 4wdrivers complain about - the few give the rest a bad name.  i support them as i think that the most of them do a good job with 1 hand tied behind their back and a blindfold wrapped around their head by their middle management!

regards

ela

Mud-muncher1:
In my opinion the police are a complete waste of time as for me and my partner we are still waiting for some sort of result about our disco that was stolen easter time, parts have been seen on a auction site, there was very good info that the truck itself had been seen and we have relayed all the info needed for a positive case, but for all the phone calls and time wasted on our part nothing to date has been done, I think the power of the mob should stand in certain times,


Jav.

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