Reported Drink driving
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I'm mainly looking for answers from police but anyone else with similar experiences might help.
Tonight driving my daughter to her night shift as I always do around 9:30 I pull out a sideroad behind a new range rover.
He hits the kerb ok I thought usual not paying attention on his phone etc but then it got more and more concerning with weaving and i thought that's it I'm calling this in.
during the call I go over with the 999 operator what direction, the reg/model, anyone else in the car etc during this as we head into town he nearly takes someone out head on.
Eventually he suddenly brakes and heads off down a side road I overshoot and can't follow as I'm on a one way so maybe he thought something was up or in his state realized he needed to go that direction so I gave my best description of where he was heading and the operator ended the call.
I'm annoyed I couldn't stay until a road traffic unit turned up although the operator gave no hint one was getting dispatched even after the alarming near head on.
My question to resident police or people that know more is will they be waiting at his home address like I've seen on traffic cops, does a marker get placed on anpr? or just the reg goes out there for OPs tonight and that's it?
I know it's slim but will I hear anything if he did get caught?
I'm mainly looking for answers from police but anyone else with similar experiences might help.
Tonight driving my daughter to her night shift as I always do around 9:30 I pull out a sideroad behind a new range rover.
He hits the kerb ok I thought usual not paying attention on his phone etc but then it got more and more concerning with weaving and i thought that's it I'm calling this in.
during the call I go over with the 999 operator what direction, the reg/model, anyone else in the car etc during this as we head into town he nearly takes someone out head on.
Eventually he suddenly brakes and heads off down a side road I overshoot and can't follow as I'm on a one way so maybe he thought something was up or in his state realized he needed to go that direction so I gave my best description of where he was heading and the operator ended the call.
I'm annoyed I couldn't stay until a road traffic unit turned up although the operator gave no hint one was getting dispatched even after the alarming near head on.
My question to resident police or people that know more is will they be waiting at his home address like I've seen on traffic cops, does a marker get placed on anpr? or just the reg goes out there for OPs tonight and that's it?
I know it's slim but will I hear anything if he did get caught?
petrolsniffer said:
My question to resident police or people that know more is will they be waiting at his home address like I've seen on traffic cops, does a marker get placed on anpr? or just the reg goes out there for OPs tonight and that's it?
I know it's slim but will I hear anything if he did get caught?
Depends on a number of things. I know it's slim but will I hear anything if he did get caught?
If someone is free to attend at the time. If so, I'd like tk think someone waited near the home address if its local/known.
My force puts intel in and then we look at targeting them with markers etc.
We also try and update the informant what happened, but its not a guarantee.
Usually, observations are passed to district patrols to be on the lookout for the rangey.
If traffic are in the area, then they will usually float over and patrol, possibly wait at the home address if it's close.
If distrtict have an initial pursuit officer on shift, and they are free, they will possibly be tasked to be on the lookout for the vehicle too. On our district normal response cops will only be passed observations and not tasked with trying to catch them as drink drivers like to try and make off (fail to stop) and then there are no real options to deal with them.
Usually though everyone is mad busy and observations are passed, intel will be added to the systems but unless they are seen driving the car and then breathalysed there is sometimes nothing that can be done sadly.
If traffic are in the area, then they will usually float over and patrol, possibly wait at the home address if it's close.
If distrtict have an initial pursuit officer on shift, and they are free, they will possibly be tasked to be on the lookout for the vehicle too. On our district normal response cops will only be passed observations and not tasked with trying to catch them as drink drivers like to try and make off (fail to stop) and then there are no real options to deal with them.
Usually though everyone is mad busy and observations are passed, intel will be added to the systems but unless they are seen driving the car and then breathalysed there is sometimes nothing that can be done sadly.
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