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Bush Tucker Man:

--- Quote from: Bishops Finger on September 21, 2009, 23:25:22 ---IMHO..the police are bound by rules and regulations.....stupid ones thats letting crims get away

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The overwhelming majority of Police Officers in this country will agree with you on that.

Try reading any of the Police 'blogs', or borrow the books; 'Wasting Police Time' & 'Perverting The Course Of Justice' from your local Library (both books are totally agreed with by all the Officers I meet in the course of my work)


For example;
http://200weeks.police999.com/

http://areatracenosearch.blogspot.com/

http://inspectorgadget.wordpress.com/ *(highest rank known to be 'blogging', & author of 'Perverting')

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1055480/No-wonder-Plods--A-frustrated-inspector-speaks-madness-modern-policing.html

http://totallyunpc.wordpress.com/2008/05/28/sign-of-the-times/ (unthinking relatives....  gun related)





*For some confirmation that the upper ranks are more concerned with the 'Guardianists' of the country, than the job in hand, read the bit in 'Single Measure Of Public Confidence' about the Dog Handler being bottled :evil:

hairyasswelder:
My thoughts are to insure everything you can, then just ring and report and take the crime number.. every time I have had dealings with the police they dont seem interested, shed robbed, car stolen was told I would get a visit but..... :evil: but they were very keen with the speeding fine  :roll: :roll:

Being fair though there are differnet departments policing different things.... suppose my problems come second to someone getting stabbed, raped attacked by their partners, drug dealers outside the school gates etcso in the grand scheme of things a push bike is , well, INSIGNIFICANT to be polite. 


As for guns, I am licenced and keep shotguns in the house, not once has the storage and location been checked, even though there are many regulation and laws  :?

So all in all a mixture of experiences and views


--- Quote from: Tanglefoot on September 21, 2009, 21:21:50 ---

LSP a copper then ? don't think he ever mentioned it in his every postings :twisted:  :police:  :dance:


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Maybe he TAKES PRIDE IN HIS JOB  ;) ;)

Bishops Finger:
Its about statistics to make that one eyed dick stay in power...read in some papers today about a guy who alledgedly tried a citizens arrest on a scroat after numerous 999 calls...where is some decent response in the press on this...????

beast5680:
well as an update the mum of the kid who,s bike got nicked asked another lads mum( who is a police officer) whether this sort of thing is the norm? bearing in mind east sussex deem that about 2 coppers can cover the whole county at a weekend. turns out said mum went to her boss and told him and the original copper who couldnt be bothered is now being reprimanded apparently for not going round when first told about the stolen bike in the shop.

yes a bike may be insignificant in the grand scheme of things but its the thin end of the wedge! kids need to be taught they cant get away nicking stuff from people who have had to work hard and save their cash so they can buy their son a decent bike.
I have no problem with police or policing in general but it annoys me when something could have been done but wasnt, we have very few local patrols or beat coppers but blow me they spent some cash this year on unmarked performance police cars round me, plenty of them just driving about

and yes i am of an age where we had a local bobby too who knew my name and where i lived which was enough to deter me from even thinking about nicking stuff, the thought of him round my house put me right off that idea

zebidee:
About 10 years ago my mountain bike got nicked from the close otuside my flat in Glasgow - they broke through the security door downstairs to get in for it specifically.

It was a very speciifc bike & data tagged; reported it at the local cop shop (down to the specific type of pedals and components on it) ... couple of weeks later got a call from CID. Apparently some shop had bought it - then saw the data tag and thought "[!Expletive Deleted!] I can't sell that on." So the shop called the police & shopped the guys who'd sold it. Police told me they couldn't do anything about it at that point cause it was part of a bigger investigation and they didn't want to tip the thieves off.

My dad (who used to be a cop) wrote up a letter basically saying "you know where it is, you know it's stolen goods - it's now your responsibility! You lose it now - you're liable." Got me to send it registered post to the Chief Constable ... that's the key thing - if I'd spoken to CID or some desk cop personally they'd probably just have fobbed it off. Sending it to the top meant that although he probably didn't read it the whole force was liable.

CID called me a couple of days later to tell me they'd bought my bike from the shop but would only be able to release it after all the arrests. A week or so later 100+ arrests were made in a drugs haul - basically high quality bikes were stolen & sold for money to fund drug deals. Got the bike back after that.

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