"We are short of resources, could you take your dog out and check round your buildings"

PostHarvest · Apr 17, 2019

There is no wonder that the Police claim they are short of resources. In July 2017, my car was broken into and several small items were taken. It seems that a couple of low-lifes went along our road breaking into any car they took a fancy to. They were apprehended by the local police who said they were passing ( more likely taking a break inside) the local McD's.. The perps were caught red-handed with all of the loot, charged and bailed. A full year later, they were summoned to court for a preliminary hearing, one turned up and pleaded not guilty, the other one appeared to have left the country. Another 6 months, another court date, the missing guy had turned up but the hearing was adjourned. I've just (April 2019) received a letter from the CPS informing me that the case has been dropped due to lack of evidence. The scum were caught in possession of material belonging to me and my neighbours. How can there be any lack of evidence? If they had been hauled into court on the day they were caught and punished the action would have been quick, cost effective and would have sent a message to the crim fraternity. I am in two minds whether to write to the CPS and accuse them of blatant waste of police time.

Farfrae · Apr 17, 2019

And the UK is short of thousands of doctors, nurses and the like as well as police but no one wants to pay more tax to fund them and that is the crux of the matter.

bovrill · Apr 17, 2019

There's plenty of them on the job, they just pick and choose what they want to respond to.
A car slid off the road and through a hedge here, noone hurt, but three police cars and two fire engines for the evening to watch it get towed out by a recovery truck.
I found a stolen landrover behind a straw stack, very obviously stashed there by the Irish traveling brethren, and Essex police didn't want to have anything to do with it. (A bit of detective work on my part traced it to north London, and the Met took a rather different view, and pulled out all the stops. Possibly because they're more efficient, but equally possible that it was a nice trip out to the countryside for two carloads, and pikeys are an unknown novelty to them).

Deereone · Apr 17, 2019

Farfrae said:
And the UK is short of thousands of doctors, nurses and the like as well as police but no one wants to pay more tax to fund them and that is the crux of the matter.

Wrong, there is plenty of money already it is just being wasted.

Farma Parma · Apr 17, 2019

There is no shortage of money just look at the billions we send overseas for AID annually. id stop every penny, you need to look after your own country first

Hilly · Apr 17, 2019

Farfrae said:
And the UK is short of thousands of doctors, nurses and the like as well as police but no one wants to pay more tax to fund them and that is the crux of the matter.

We pay any gods amount of tax , just our leaders squander it.

Richard98 · Apr 17, 2019

Sitting in the pub on Monday evening and 6 police cars and an ambulance came tearing past one behind the other, all chasing someone joy riding a stolen car[emoji23]

PostHarvest · Apr 17, 2019

Two kids took a golf buggy for a night-time ride around the local course - five police cars and a helicopter chased them - is that a proportionate response?

Deereone · Apr 17, 2019

PostHarvest said:
Two kids took a golf buggy for a night-time ride around the local course - five police cars and a helicopter chased them - is that a proportionate response?

That depends as to whether or not it's the Chief Constables golf course.

ollie989898 · Apr 20, 2019

PostHarvest said:
Two kids took a golf buggy for a night-time ride around the local course - five police cars and a helicopter chased them - is that a proportionate response?

You can't be serious.

phil the cat · Apr 20, 2019

We had a battery nicked off the tractor and a few hand tools. Derbyshire police were out that afternoon so not all bad. Really nice PC and was going to ring round scrap yards etc

egbert · Apr 20, 2019

phil the cat said:
We had a battery nicked off the tractor and a few hand tools. Derbyshire police were out that afternoon so not all bad. Really nice PC and was going to ring round scrap yards etc

hmm. a pal of mine has had several nocturnal visits. on one of them, a load of hand/power tools went.
plod weren't very interested.
a week or two later, the tools were noticed for sale on some website/social media page.... the man selling them was easily contacted, and I recall had evidently been trading lots of stuff.
Here you go plod, this is the man. They couldn't be ersed.

Meanwhile, close around me, several nice rural houses are occupied by retired middle ranking and up cops, who stop work younger than I am now, and straight away draw pensions headed toward 6 figures annually.
One household consists of a him and her, both retired cops with some rank. Combined household income well into 6 figures.

I'm uncomfortable with this state of affairs.

Half Pipe · Apr 20, 2019

Deereone said:
Wrong, there is plenty of money already it is just being wasted.

There was a programme on earlier in the year about NHS fraud, it showed examples at all levels. Estimated 100 million a month is stolen/wasted.

Landy Nick · Apr 20, 2019

theboytheboy said:
Try that here and they would probably lock up farmer for gbh, kidnapping etc.

Simlair here. Boss got sued for the public humiliation of marching thief to police station.
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uk...4324/Thief-paraded-down-street-sues-boss.html

Deereone · Apr 20, 2019

Now there is a genuine case deserving crowd funding

Mac86 · Apr 20, 2019

Only had to call the police once so far (touch wood), when I found a group of blokes inspecting my Defender in the dead of night. Quick response from the police, they came back the next day and fitted cameras for 4 weeks just in case the would be thieves came back. Can't reall fault them, from experience, though I can see other instances where they've been useless.

As for more tax, maybe I'd consider supporting it when those in power stop squandering their current tax take. Until then, no way!

Stew B · May 5, 2019

https://farmersunion.co.uk/groups/rural-security/

TFU contains a not for profit syndicate of retired cops operating as Professional Witnesses.

Plans are advanced in forming a national patrol service.

Let's work together for our survival.

Dry Rot · May 5, 2019

This popped up on Facebook.https://crimestoppers-uk.org/campaigns-media

Looks like this is the future.

Princess Pooper · May 6, 2019

A single sheep loose on the A17 in S Lincs a few weeks ago and at one point FIVE police cars in pursuit in an incident that lasted several hours. They were on the point of calling the firearms unit when a local woman told them to stop chasing it en masse with fluorescent jackets and she quietly shooed the poor exhausted thing into her back garden and caught it on her own.

Cowcalf · May 6, 2019

Steevo said:
Seems almost every day there is a report about the NHS, Police or other such department that doesn't have enough money to do what is needed.

I think they need to look at the "farmers careful with money" thread first.

Reckon most of these departments have enough money just poor use of what they get.

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