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Dibble said:
Do you ever. Frequent dip samples, not unkown for D&C to ask you 6 months later why you checked such and such a vehicle or such and such a person.
Asked my step sister who is an inspector to check a car for me. 
You would have thought I asked to butt 
her! That told me thenI started to receive correspondence about a car (servicing etc) that I had never owned at my MIL's address.
Not sure if this was an error, a guess by someone just wanting a false address or genuinely putting my name against this address I did not know.
Concerned that someone may be trying to falsely register a vehicle I contacted the police and told them my worries.
WPC: "We do not do PNC checks for the benefit of the public"
ME: "Some one may be committing a crime, I do not want to know the result of the PNC, please just investigate it, I believe someone may have given false info on buying a vehicle"
WPC: "If a crime is committed using the vehicle and we trace it to your MIL's with your name then we will ask the appropriate questions"
ME: "And arrest me as a suspect for that crime?"
WPC: "If necessary, yes"
ME "But if you look now you may prevent that crime"
WPC: "We do not do PNC checks for the benefit of the public"
ME: "So why do you do them?"
WPC: "We do not do PNC checks for the benefit of the public"
ME: "FFS OK” :hang-up:
I don't know if that was just a WPC with PMT or now thinking about this thread something else, could not understand it at the time.
Cheers
Paul
Not sure if this was an error, a guess by someone just wanting a false address or genuinely putting my name against this address I did not know.
Concerned that someone may be trying to falsely register a vehicle I contacted the police and told them my worries.
WPC: "We do not do PNC checks for the benefit of the public"
ME: "Some one may be committing a crime, I do not want to know the result of the PNC, please just investigate it, I believe someone may have given false info on buying a vehicle"
WPC: "If a crime is committed using the vehicle and we trace it to your MIL's with your name then we will ask the appropriate questions"
ME: "And arrest me as a suspect for that crime?"
WPC: "If necessary, yes"
ME "But if you look now you may prevent that crime"
WPC: "We do not do PNC checks for the benefit of the public"
ME: "So why do you do them?"
WPC: "We do not do PNC checks for the benefit of the public"
ME: "FFS OK” :hang-up:
I don't know if that was just a WPC with PMT or now thinking about this thread something else, could not understand it at the time.
Cheers
Paul
There was even a suggestion a while ago of putting cardboard cutout police cars on motorway bridges as a deterrent. Dunno if it came to anything.
Now someone's going to tell me it was an april fool joke that I never got!
Surely if one of you guys ran a check on that black Volvo, the reason would be that you got some info that it might be someone pretending to be police and you wanted to check it out?
Now someone's going to tell me it was an april fool joke that I never got!
Surely if one of you guys ran a check on that black Volvo, the reason would be that you got some info that it might be someone pretending to be police and you wanted to check it out?
Nige...
It's sooooooooooo tempting...it really is....I'm like the moth and the light bulb....aaagh!
However, there's too much scope for it going wrong, especially as it's been displayed on an open forum..
Go into the Nick mate and report it. Tell them that you've spoken to a police officer 'friend' of yours who has suggested you pop in. Tell them you don't want ANY details whatsoever about the owner of the vehicle and if it's a police vehicle you wont be making any complaints etc....You would just like your mind settling..
Let us know..
Street
It's sooooooooooo tempting...it really is....I'm like the moth and the light bulb....aaagh!
However, there's too much scope for it going wrong, especially as it's been displayed on an open forum..
Go into the Nick mate and report it. Tell them that you've spoken to a police officer 'friend' of yours who has suggested you pop in. Tell them you don't want ANY details whatsoever about the owner of the vehicle and if it's a police vehicle you wont be making any complaints etc....You would just like your mind settling..
Let us know..
Street
Streetcop said:
gopher said:
WPC: "We do not do PNC checks for the benefit of the public"
Once upon a time policing was always for the benefit of the public
Policing is still for the benefit of the public!...use another thread for cheap digs please...
Not a cheap dig (although humourously expressed) - a serious point that a helpful, law-abiding member of the public is told by an officer that they can't help them for no obviously good reason.
They can't do such checks for a number of reasons..
Firstly...the data protection act...How does the officer on the phone confirm the person she is speaking to IS the owner or potential owner of the vehicle?
The caller might be a stalker who sees a pretty woman in a car and thinks 'I've a good way of finding out where she lives......'
There are companies that charge fees for HPI checks etc...The check via the police would be free to the caller, but the police officer's time isn't 'free'....
What next?...Ring up the local police station and ask for the any previous incidents at number 10 and number 14 on a certain street as you're thinking of buying number 12 and want to find out what the neighbours are like..
The line has to be drawn...
Street
Firstly...the data protection act...How does the officer on the phone confirm the person she is speaking to IS the owner or potential owner of the vehicle?
The caller might be a stalker who sees a pretty woman in a car and thinks 'I've a good way of finding out where she lives......'
There are companies that charge fees for HPI checks etc...The check via the police would be free to the caller, but the police officer's time isn't 'free'....
What next?...Ring up the local police station and ask for the any previous incidents at number 10 and number 14 on a certain street as you're thinking of buying number 12 and want to find out what the neighbours are like..
The line has to be drawn...
Street
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