Where have all the police gone?

Even if you give the police evidence they still dont act.

Our kid had his raving quads nicked from a lock up.

He was given a tip off as to where the quads were, so he drove over there. He took videos and photos of the people driving around on them. Clear photos of their faces and the reg of the white van. He took the address.

He gave them to the police who phoned back 3 weeks later saying there wasnt enough evidence ! My brother said " oh really you have the address, photos and videos you know what travellers site what else do you need" ?

Bloody disgrace the police just flogged him off.
 
Stoned Rose said:
Go and stand outside one of their buildings and film it.

You’ll see about 30 of them turn up on the bounce.
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El_george said:
Slightly off topic - although related as at the end of the day there isn't a bottomless pit of tax money to spread around, but did anyone see this the other day:

www.theguardian.com

‘Providers can charge what they want’: how Merseyside council paid £50k a week to house vulnerable child

Head of children’s services says cash-strapped authority had no choice but to pay up to provide care
www.theguardian.com www.theguardian.com

The gist of it being: "Margaret Harvey, the cabinet member for children’s services in Knowsley, Merseyside, said she reacted with “absolute horror” when told the local authority was going to have to pay almost £50,000 a week for one child’s placement earlier this year.

But the council had no choice, she insisted. It had a statutory duty to find that teenager a safe place to live after a judge made them subject to a “deprivation of liberty order” (DOL).

These orders allow a child to be locked up because they are deemed a severe danger to themselves or others, or their life is at risk from criminal gangs. The orders are increasingly being used to detain children in unregistered settings such as rented flats or houses because there is no space for them in a secure children’s home."

£50,000 a week - that can't be right....
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It’s not right mate. I used to work for a team that found placements and that figure shocks me. Even if they had a staffing ratio of 5 or 6 to 1 it is daylight robbery.

Only 14 secure children's homes in England and Wales and 4 in Scotland.

Seems there are an increasing amount of kids that have been traumatised beyond comprehension at home and then institutionised within the system.
 
Kompany Car said:
I’m beginning to think we have a two tier police force. I’ve lived in rough areas and upmarket leafy areas. One thing that is noticeable is that whenever the slightest thing happens in the nicer areas, the police are there quickly and follow up on the crime. In the less affluent areas it was a case of here’s your crime number, crack on.
Shouldn’t be like that and maybe it’s purely subjective but it is what I’ve experienced.
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Funnily enough, my experiences are the opposite. I've been burgled 4 times now (in different houses in "leafy areas") and the last 2 times, the police didn't bother turning up. In fact they had the bare-faced cheek to suggest I might go looking for my nicked stuff myself in the various pawn shops on Gloucester Road in Bristol, to see if I recognised any of my stuff.

Moreover, seems to me if you are a "wrong un", then the police don't really mind about your trivial offences. And yet if you are a law-abiding citizen, you get the book thrown at you for doing 42 in a 30 zone.
 
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