Furious with the useless police, who do I complain to?

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About a year and a half ago I was assaulted at work. A junkie scumbag hit me in the face when I'd asked him to leave after catching him stealing. It was pretty open and shut, I had cctv of the incident and knew the guys name and had a witness.

The cctv was clear as could be and I personally burnt it off an annotated the whole thing with timings etc etc.

Skip forward and the case eventually came to court about 6 months ago. It was adjourned as the police technical support unit had somehow been playing with their dicks for 6 months and not transferred the footage onto some kind of dvd that could be played in court. ( I had the whole fking thing transferred onto my phone the same day so it's not like it's fking difficult).

3 months ago I go back to court only to be told "oh sorry, we still havent got the footage yet" and it was adjourned again. Meanwhile junkie stfaces solicitor is whining that its unfair to make him wait this long but I'm assured it will go ahead anyway.

Skip forward to now and I find out through the grapevine that junkie has had the case against him dropped.

Pissed off doesn't cover this one I'm afraid. I want to voice my displeasure to someone, who do I call/write to? I'm in Scotland so I guess it's the Procurator Fiscals office but is there a specific "I'm fking pissed off" hotline?

[deevlash]

I've no idea who the officer is, it was ages ago and I havent met him or had any correspondence from him/her or the prosecution in any way shape or form aside from getting summons to appear as a witness since the incident.

The justice system in this country is a joke. I bet of I was doing 101 fking mph I'd be hauled over the coals and they'd have no bother providing the pissing video evidence for that.

[deevlash]

I guess I could try and find out the date it happened, it was a loooooong time ago.

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streaky said:

I can remember significant events in my lifetime ... this was obviously more commonplace for you to have forgotten the date.

Streaky

yep, I have been to court about 30 times in the past 2 years as a witness to give evidence against scum.

[deevlash]

Actually, I am an officially approved nice, sensible person as I have a personal licence to sell booze.

Anyway, I heard yesterday that this guy had been let off, how else would I have found out? The police and courts certainly havent bothered to tell me.

Thanks to this thread I now know who to write to for a proper explanation.

As for your contribution to this thread I respectfully suggest you toddle off back under your bridge and don't bother posting again unless you have something constructive to add. A picture of a digger doesn't count.

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M5Dave said:

deevlash said:

yep, I have been to court about 30 times in the past 2 years as a witness to give evidence against scum.

Was it the same useless police who gathered the evidence to put these people before the court.

I caught the shoplifters, I detained them, often with them fighting tooth and nail, I provided the cctv and witness statement as did my staff and I made myself available to go to court.

All the police do is turn up, tell them off and then let them go outside the shop after taking some statements. Eventually I get a summons telling me to go to court to give evidence against them.

In 10 years of doing this and having been summonsed around 80 times I have never once actually got to stand up and give evidence against anyone in court. The whole system is a massive waste of everyones time that costs the tax payer a fortune.