I know someone who had their car stolen in Manchester, basically the police said they don't even have the time nor the resources to come out, they gave him a case number and said to let his insurer handle it.
And the thing is, two days later he actually found his car sitting in a parking lot of a supermarket somewhere, rang the police, and they said "....ok? what do you want us to do?". He said that he would expect them to come out and look for prints or whatever - they said they don't have anyone available to do this, if he still has the keys he should take the car and be happy it was found.
I honestly think in UK unless it's an actual murder your chances of getting a successful intervention from Police are close to zero. They are just way too underfunded and understaffed, I do remember reading that some places like Manchester have like one policeman for 100k people. It's impossible to do effective policing with that kind of force.
> I honestly think in UK unless it's an actual murder your chances of getting a successful intervention from Police are close to zero.
There was the old joke about someone ringing the police to complain about someone burgling their garden shed.
Police say, we'll send someone tomorrow to have a look.
Homeowner replies, well I've got a kitchen knife and I'm going to stab this guy unless he leaves without taking any of my property.
Police immediately send round officers to deal with the incident.
I'm never quite sure if the police are supposed to sending someone to deal with the bugler or to arrest the homeowner.
Well that's something I've heard too - if you are calling about a break in, make sure to mention that you think you saw them carrying a gun/knife. Then they will actually send someone within 5 minutes. Otherwise? They will be gone long before anyone turns up.
And no, I'm not talking about purely hypothetical situation here - my sister was alone at home when two drunk guys were trying to break in, throwing rocks and bricks at the windows, shouting that they are going to come in and get her, she locked herself in her room and rang the police.........they arrived 45 minutes later. If one of the guys didn't cut himself badly on the glass and decided to give up(and the other one bailed then), it could have ended extremely badly, but an active break-in is apparently not enough to send the nearest PC to the scene right now.
One in which dealers with guns, packages of heroin and cooking up crack cocaine, police be like ok we will put on our intel system, begged to send somebody nowt. I mention egads I might as well just kill myself was joking but once said that the operator wasn't going to let it go without the police checking upon me. Who then wasted their time and they still ignored what was going on in flat below.
Another one was they with lanlord knock on their door, they had dealers in, and waitied 5 minutes - could hear them flusing the toilet 3 times as they flushed all the drugs and only once got rid did they enter and go nothing to see here, didn't even bother checking the system tank etc - pure joke.
Was saying that the local police were akin to the keystone cops, though honestly they made the keystone cops look like the SAS.
But those are just two examples and far bigger and wider than that with too many to go thru, but helps when you do your own intellegence gathering and with that about 4TB of stuff to get out and far far worse.
I know someone who had their car stolen in Manchester, basically the police said they don't even have the time nor the resources to come out, they gave him a case number and said to let his insurer handle it.
And the thing is, two days later he actually found his car sitting in a parking lot of a supermarket somewhere, rang the police, and they said "....ok? what do you want us to do?". He said that he would expect them to come out and look for prints or whatever - they said they don't have anyone available to do this, if he still has the keys he should take the car and be happy it was found.
I honestly think in UK unless it's an actual murder your chances of getting a successful intervention from Police are close to zero. They are just way too underfunded and understaffed, I do remember reading that some places like Manchester have like one policeman for 100k people. It's impossible to do effective policing with that kind of force.