MET Police please help - urgent

[The Selfish Gene]

Ok guys - don't want to whinge but had my Triumph stolen last night.

Tracker went off - I was about 50 feet from it.

Call 999 - and then jumped on my mates bike to where the tracker indicated it was (moving at the time)

I get there, can't be more than a 15 mins after the tracker stopped moving - I have the address.

I call the police again, and they say an hour.

this was after 10pm last night, and the police still haven't turned up to the address.

My tracker company are on hold.

Now I know the police are busy - but it's been nearly 12 hours - I know exactly where the bike was taken to.

Can someone in the police please help get someone to it? There can't have been that many murders, acid attacks over night on a Thursday surely.

Area is Deptford, Idonia Road............

PS - we have resisted turning up mob handed as obviously nobody wants to get into trouble - but I can see why that option would be attractive.

[The Selfish Gene]

[Shuvi McTupya]

Tell the police that the tracker movement suggests a strong indication that the bike thief was breaking the speed limit.

Or..tell them you had a peek through the window and they have quite a few cartons of cigarettes which probably haven't had the duty paid on.

Sorry, can't really help and I hope you get satisfaction.

(BUMP)

[CAPP0]

The Selfish Gene said:

PS - we have resisted turning up mob handed as obviously nobody wants to get into trouble - but I can see why that option would be attractive.

Seriously, without hysteria - if you have that option and you are prepared to use it, that's the only way you will get your bike back.

I don't say that to knock the Met per se but this will be so far down their list of priorities that I'll be surprised if they turn out at all, never mind whilst the bike is still there.

I speak from experience and from anecdotal information. When I had a bike stolen, from underneath a CCTV camera, the police didn't come out until after the CCTV had been overwritten. That system had a 3 week overwrite cycle.

They also sent me a crime ref number which, when I resented it to my insurance company, was for a completely different stolen CAR. That caused some insurance eyebrows to be raised.

[Monkeylegend]

If you know where it is can't you go and collect?

[S11Steve]

If you want to avoid confrontation yourself, consider getting an asset recovery company involved - maybe a bit far from you, but www.swiftassetservices.co.uk or www.smarltd.co.uk/ are such examples.

Other more "direct action" repo agents are available though....

[55palfers]

Perhaps Police were all "too busy" here

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-5685125/Po...

[anonymous-user]

CAPP0 said:

I don't say that to knock the Met per se but this will be so far down their list of priorities that I'll be surprised if they turn out at all, never mind whilst the bike is still there.

Why not ?
It seems as soon as someone takes what could be described as 'vigilante action or against a criminal the BIB would soon show up to show them the error of their ways.

[The Selfish Gene]

Monkeylegend said:

If you know where it is can't you go and collect?

it's inside (according to the tracker) a ground floor flat, with shared but secure entry to the hallway - all curtains were drawn (as they would be) at 1am this morning when I was waiting outside for the police for two hours.

I do get it - I know how busy Lewisham area is with the amount of utter scum that live there.

I'm not actually police bashing - I just can't believe it was such an easy win.

I guess motorbike crime isn't a thing worth bothering about :-(

just seems like a total smoking gun.

without being a big flouncing drama queen...........this year, I've had the house ransacked by three scumbags, I've had a gun pulled on me (apparently) and he threatened to kill me and now the bike nicked from a Biker meet in a busy street in Greenwich.

The police did attend the first two incidents to be fair and were good - but no convictions or even leads in either case.

I think I just will go and live somewhere out of London - or never own anything nice ever

[The Selfish Gene]

I was just hoping that any of the police on here could maybe drop a text or a make a call to a colleague or something.

Probably not how it works.

it isn't a nice feeling being a victim of so many (quite serious crimes) in the first 6 months of the year (plus I got knocked off the bike in Feb too)

oh well

[Rovinghawk]

Can the police not send them a FPN through the post? They're good at that.

[shep1001]

Are you sure you didn't knock on his door and ask for it back, at which point he pointed a gun at you and told you to do one? Might be worth another call to plod and tell them that?

[The Selfish Gene]

Rovinghawk said:

Can the police not send them a FPN through the post? They're good at that.

I'll probably get that and have to prove it wasn't me

[CAPP0]

Seriously - call the police, say you tracked it and went round there and someone pulled a knife/pointed a gun. They'll probably turn out then, and when they do, the "guy with the weapon" will have gone but the bike will still be there. Just have a description of "him" ready.

If you go with your mates instead, if it's in a communal area of some flats, just press all the buzzers, someone will let you in.

[bad company]

Good luck op. I’d be very tempted to get a couple of mates and go in and get your bike.

[sinbaddio]

A similar thing happened to a pal of mine - car was taken and the police didn't show much interest. The tracker showed the location so he went round mob handed, told the police he was doing so, and they were there in no time.

Good luck OP.

[GreatGranny]

CAPP0 said:

Seriously - call the police, say you tracked it and went round there and someone pulled a knife/pointed a gun. They'll probably turn out then, and when they do, the "guy with the weapon" will have gone but the bike will still be there. Just have a description of "him" ready.

Do not do a stupid thing like this.

[tybo]

Call them back to say you've gathered a few mates to go and retrieve your bike by whatever means.

I'm sure there will be then someone available to attend...

[bad company]

tybo said:

Call them back to say you've gathered a few mates to go and retrieve your bike by whatever means.

I'm sure there will be then someone available to attend...

That sounds like a better idea.

[Jonno02]

bad company said:

That sounds like a better idea.

Yep. Don't say someone pulled a weapon, that's a sure way to get yourself into trouble.