Police not allowed to pass on vehicle reg details of vehicle!!!

[Pilatus]

I have been told that a police officer who runs a rural crime watch, has been told not to post any more vehicle reg no’s on the crime watch group!!!
For goodness sake there has never been anything mentioned about the owner, just whether the vehicle is looking suspicious, most of the time the vehicles are on false plates.
Very sad state of affairs as the crime watch is a great group for keeping tabs on dodgy looking vehicles lurking around our countyside.
Apparently it is ok for group members to post reg no’s off dodgy looking vehicles so all is not lost.
But yet another tool helping to find culprits of rural crime has been taken away, from a “police officer” for gods sake what ever next!!!

 

[Still Farming]

More work for them if public try and help themselves is it???

 

[JSmith]

Honestly I’d believe anything, it’ll be violating a criminals human right to anonymity or some such rubbish!!

 

[Pilatus]

Honestly I’d believe anything, it’ll be violating a criminals human right to anonymity or some such rubbish!!

Exactly .

 

[Still Farming]

You can check if taxed and mot 'd vehicle make tally etc. On dvla web pages legally ?

 

[Tomr10]

The thing that pisses me of are defence lawyers how the f do they sleep nowing sombody is guilty and getting them off on technicallys

 

[kiwi pom]

What's a 'dodgy looking vehicle'?

 

[Pilatus]

What's a 'dodgy looking vehicle'?

If you lived in rural uk you would soon get to know a “dodgy looking vehicle” creeping about your farm,yard, fields etc etc, specially if your neighbour has had visit from the same vehicle, which if approached goes of at high speed!!!!

 

[FonterraFarmer]

What's a 'dodgy looking vehicle'?

Anything out of the ordinary, or being driven in an inappropriate manner, from speeding drug crazed MB/BMW/Audi driver to beat up multi coloured VN Commodore bogan hoon...?

 

[MrNoo]

If you lived in rural uk you would soon get to know a “dodgy looking vehicle” creeping about your farm,yard, fields etc etc, specially if your neighbour has had visit from the same vehicle, which if approached goes of at high speed!!!!

Yes, got the same message, I did mention if it would be ok for a 3rd party to post the reg details etc as a "get around" but even that is not allowed. It seems everything is being neatly stacked in favor of the criminal, how long before something more serious occurs. It's almost as if they (police) dont want to catch criminals these days, too much hassle.

 

[JSmith]

Yes, got the same message, I did mention if it would be ok for a 3rd party to post the reg details etc as a "get around" but even that is not allowed. It seems everything is being neatly stacked in favor of the criminal, how long before something more serious occurs. It's almost as if they (police) dont want to catch criminals these days, too much hassle.

Can’t be arsed not too much hassle, they’d sing a different tune if they were having stuff nicked!! Easier to sit at the other end of a speed camera, less stressful

 

[Pilatus]

Can’t be arsed not too much hassle, they’d sing a different tune if they were having stuff nicked!! Easier to sit at the other end of a speed camera, less stressful

I have to say I feel sorry for the police officer that has done so much for our rural community, but has now been reprimanded for posting vehicle reg no’s.
The officer that started the rural crime watch was also involved in the excellent idea of building banks alongside open fields, using soil from construction sites. The banks have been great for deterring off roaders and hare coursers.

 

[PSQ]

Two local council employees caught someone on camera fly tipping, got his face, reg plate, the lot.
Took the video to their managers, no action taken, as "the council is not equipped to prosecute offenders".

 

[Tomr10]

Apparently a lot of dog stealing going on at the moment

 

[PSQ]

Two local council employees caught someone on camera fly tipping, got his face, reg plate, the lot.
Took the video to their managers, no action taken, as "the council is not equipped to prosecute offenders".

 

[JSmith]

Twenty years ago our village which is two miles from a substantial town had its own police station with a full contingent of officers who you could get hold of day or night, now the station has gone in the village and the town, and the same coppers are now based twenty miles away an cover endless parishes! What chance have you got when you need one!? I know cuts to funding have caused most of that but when it comes to lock-in people up not interested, or hands are tied by rules of the system made up by soft geremy Corbyn types who believe every arsehole has a right of some sort!!!

 

[sjt01]

Our local watch service does not post actual number plates, but says "a number plate similar to AB12 XYZ"

 

[Still Farming]

Half the time farmers,landowners, see ,log ,check and if suspect ring coppers that could send patrol car straight away.
If dvla states not taxed or mot and matches said vehicle then job done for them???

 

[Still Farming]

Our local watch service does not post actual number plates, but says "a number plate similar to AB12 XYZ"

Ring round voice not text so thats ok is it???

 

[betweenthelines]

But there's a fine line between "concerned citizen sharing concerns about suspicious activity" and "Interfering busybody complains every time someone does anything they don't like"

Threads on TFF all the time about people moaning about farmers working late at night/having noisy machinery/driving tractors too fast/too slow on roads etc etc.

I used to have a farm in a small village and some of the neighbours would complain about virtually everything we did from the smell when mucking out sheds to ( I kid you not) the noise of my wife riding a horse through the village at 7.00 am!

Neighbourhood watch schemes can be useful, but if the wrong people are involved, they just create more "little Hitlers"