What is done to combat criminal damage?
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Err. I think i said it all in the title. Whilst reading an article my friend sent me about one of his former teachers (turned out to have a side hobby of child porn) on the surrey police website, noticed a 'report minor crime' link. Under this is criminal damage, vandalism, theft from a motor vehicle, and damage to a motor vehicle.
It annoys me that such an apparently flippant attitude is taken towards offences that can easily be as costly as many burglarys etc..
Reassure me that these arent just treated as something for the insurance companies to sort out...
It annoys me that such an apparently flippant attitude is taken towards offences that can easily be as costly as many burglarys etc..
Reassure me that these arent just treated as something for the insurance companies to sort out...
I's possibly just to record it, without having to go through the "Press 1 for abduction, Press 2 for abstraction of electricity... press 45763457643 for Xenophobic crime"
I'd hope that once it's on whatever crime recording system they use, it is then at least looked at to see whether or not it needs deploying to.
I'd hope that once it's on whatever crime recording system they use, it is then at least looked at to see whether or not it needs deploying to.
einion yrth said:
It annoys me that such an apparently flippant attitude is taken towards offences that can easily be as costly as many burglarys etc..
Reassure me that these arent just treated as something for the insurance companies to sort out...
What, like burglaries you mean?
Wasnt aware that burglaries are also treated this way... Sigh.
Sorry lanciachris, it's probably me, but what are you asking?
If it's "Is criminal damage treated as seriously as burglary", then probably not; the public want BiB to investigate more "serious" crimes, and with limited resources, then CD will be looked at less than burglary.
That said, if someone is a victim of this crime, then I'd like to think if I was dealing with it (and being TrafPol doesn't mean I won't), then I'll do a proper job for them.
If it's "Is criminal damage treated as seriously as burglary", then probably not; the public want BiB to investigate more "serious" crimes, and with limited resources, then CD will be looked at less than burglary.
That said, if someone is a victim of this crime, then I'd like to think if I was dealing with it (and being TrafPol doesn't mean I won't), then I'll do a proper job for them.
lanciachris said:
Basically Im saying I dont think its right that crimes are being reported and nothing being done about them except them being logged on a computer.
I filled in one of these online forms. Someone decided my car door would like a mask of zorrow Z in the paint.
You get a nice (Hand signed) letter saying they are looking into it and giving you a crime number. Then 6 months later you get another letter saying nothing has been done (very difficult to catch people who commit occasional vandalism etc). And thats it.
alans said:
too many people don't undertake simple crime prevention measures...
when I moved in to my house, I phoned the local bib for advice on security. "We don't do that anymore"
Bizarre....
Every force in the England and Wales has a crime prevention department...
Street:Cop:
deltaf said:
too many people don't undertake simple crime prevention measures...
Blame the victims huh?
NO not at all...
It's just that some victims do themselves no favours....They also do the rest of us no favours as our insurance premiums go up as a result...
The numbers of thefts from cars at a motorway services on my area is unbelievable. Lap tops left in cars, mobile phones, digital cameras etc etc...
Despite regular police patrols and plain clothes operations (which do net a number of offenders) the crimes continue, as there are always others to take their place.
Criminals travel up and down the country, often visiting dozens of service stations to steal from cars...
Simple things like hiding valuables in the boot, or better still taking them with you will prevent this...but oh no.."I was only gone half an hour. Thought it would be ok."
So, no. It's not about blaming the victims, but it's about taking some responsibility and now relying on everyone else..
Street
ps: just remembered....saw a woman leave the keys to her car in the ignition, with the engine running today, to go to the cashpoint machine....
Streetcop said:
ps: just remembered....saw a woman leave the keys to her car in the ignition, with the engine running today, to go to the cashpoint machine....
Does anyone else find it tempting, on seeing that sort of thing, to jump in the car and drive it round the corner, just to make the point?
No I don't actually do that and I do know it's TWOC
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