Paying the police £105 to investigate car theft
Discussion
Don't know if this is the same thing, but I recently went out to replace a door window on a Jaguar. Car was parked, unattended; the window was smashed and stereo stolen.
The driver called local cops who (eventually) came out only to insist on seeing HIS insurance docs.
They then offered to 'investigate' the crime at a cost to him, the victim.
I left that job thinking the bloke was nuts.
The driver called local cops who (eventually) came out only to insist on seeing HIS insurance docs.
They then offered to 'investigate' the crime at a cost to him, the victim.
I left that job thinking the bloke was nuts.
Hi Guys,
If this b*ll**ks is correct then why the hell are we paying our council tax??
I have nothing against the police but I really do think we must start to make a stand against this blatent constant milking of the motorists purse.
If we are to enjoy any type of freedom in our motoring future we must ensure, like all the others, we are getting value for money, something I think we have a long way to go to achieve before these lousy politians are bought to book and get their low life asses kicked out of their cushy jobs!
Roy
If this b*ll**ks is correct then why the hell are we paying our council tax??
I have nothing against the police but I really do think we must start to make a stand against this blatent constant milking of the motorists purse.
If we are to enjoy any type of freedom in our motoring future we must ensure, like all the others, we are getting value for money, something I think we have a long way to go to achieve before these lousy politians are bought to book and get their low life asses kicked out of their cushy jobs!
Roy
Lets get this into perspective, chaps!
The £105,- is the RECOVERY cost, so that the car does not get trashed further by lowlife chavscum or pikeys...
it is NOT a charge by the police!!!(but by their appointed recovery company) who are storing it so that your P+J is safe. The Police CANNOT charge you to investigate!
THAT'S b*ll*x!!!
or put another way, you have an accident, God forbid, and you are carted off to hospital. Do you want the remains of the damaged P+J dumped at the roadside so that thieving pikey barstewards can strip it of everything including your wallet which dropped out of your pocket when they took you unconcious out of the car?
The £105,- is the RECOVERY cost, so that the car does not get trashed further by lowlife chavscum or pikeys...
it is NOT a charge by the police!!!(but by their appointed recovery company) who are storing it so that your P+J is safe. The Police CANNOT charge you to investigate!
THAT'S b*ll*x!!!
or put another way, you have an accident, God forbid, and you are carted off to hospital. Do you want the remains of the damaged P+J dumped at the roadside so that thieving pikey barstewards can strip it of everything including your wallet which dropped out of your pocket when they took you unconcious out of the car?
Edited by JMGS4 on Wednesday 18th April 07:17
Ah Hem:-
Only car owners who agree to pay the fee, which in theory is to cover storage, are assured their cars will be “forensicated” — which means dusted down for fingerprints or swabbed for DNA
and...
Home Office warns motorists who recover their own vehicles that the cars will not be checked for clues. It states: “[The police force will accept] no further responsibility and will be unable to take further action to identify the person who took it.”
We pay texes for all of this sort of thing, gathering of evidence, detection and any costs involved in transporting or storing vehicles. I dont see why we should pay again at any stage. The tax generated from each car in terms of road fund, petrol, VAT on initial purchase, VAT on serving and parts etc etc must be a fairly decent sum. So it's hardly fair to deny us some basic policing when it comes to vehicle theft. I see this as just another New Labour attack on the motorist. They have made it plain and clear already that car ownership is something they detest. What next. Will they decriminalise vandalism of cars? Red Ken virtually endorses it!
Only car owners who agree to pay the fee, which in theory is to cover storage, are assured their cars will be “forensicated” — which means dusted down for fingerprints or swabbed for DNA
and...
Home Office warns motorists who recover their own vehicles that the cars will not be checked for clues. It states: “[The police force will accept] no further responsibility and will be unable to take further action to identify the person who took it.”
We pay texes for all of this sort of thing, gathering of evidence, detection and any costs involved in transporting or storing vehicles. I dont see why we should pay again at any stage. The tax generated from each car in terms of road fund, petrol, VAT on initial purchase, VAT on serving and parts etc etc must be a fairly decent sum. So it's hardly fair to deny us some basic policing when it comes to vehicle theft. I see this as just another New Labour attack on the motorist. They have made it plain and clear already that car ownership is something they detest. What next. Will they decriminalise vandalism of cars? Red Ken virtually endorses it!
skymaster said:
As if the motorist has not been hammered enough by this government. They have just approved plans to allow police forces to charge us £105 if we want our stolen cars to be investigated. This beggers belief!
Air we breath will be charged for next " Can't afford it" sorry then DIE!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Ha
Thats nothing, wait till you get hit in a road traffic accident by an uninsured driver and then you REALLY will not believe the attitude of the police. They simply will not send an officer out to interview the uninsured driver, let alone prosecute.
The amount of poor sods i represent who cannot get redress for this is staggering. The police just are not interested.
Thats nothing, wait till you get hit in a road traffic accident by an uninsured driver and then you REALLY will not believe the attitude of the police. They simply will not send an officer out to interview the uninsured driver, let alone prosecute.
The amount of poor sods i represent who cannot get redress for this is staggering. The police just are not interested.
It's clear the socialists (also known as the Government to you and I) have decided that the police are there to persecute, haras and prosecute motorists and not help them in any way shape or form. Their main targets are insured legitimate drivers who will pay up. What a shocking state of affairs! God only knows if the day will come when owning a car is a criminal offence in it's self! I guess they would prefer us plebs to get carted round on mass like animals while the empty roads stay clear for Government officials to fly down them in nice cars.
It would be nice to say roll on the next general election. Not that Camoron and his shower are likely to be `much' better, but I doubt that any known UK government can be as devastatatingly bad as the current shower of sh*t. Problem is, even if the shower get the massive kicking they richly deserve, they will pop up again as the opposition being paid for by the very same people they have shafted for the last 10 years.
The best we can hope for is that the next shower are a little less painful for those who actually work for a living.
Anyone who is into motoring, and STILL votes for the shower, is the equivalent of a turkey who loves to vote for Christmas.
The best we can hope for is that the next shower are a little less painful for those who actually work for a living.
Anyone who is into motoring, and STILL votes for the shower, is the equivalent of a turkey who loves to vote for Christmas.
tbh nothing suprises me anymore about our police and government. all they want is to raise enough taxes to justify their own increases in salary. imo they come up with these schemes so they can hide what a bad job they are doing.
its funny how they have enough police to sit a the side of the road checking for speeding but not to investigate thefts!!
its funny how they have enough police to sit a the side of the road checking for speeding but not to investigate thefts!!
I agree with you both. Sadly we have another two years of these old school lefties taking the 'Great' well and truely out of Britain! Once the formerly electable Blair is replaced with 'Passionate Socialist' (His own words) Brown we will really be in trouble. There is even talk that the insane left of left Milliband might run for labour leader! What we need is a nice TV prog that chronicles what all these muppets were doing in the 1970s and 80s. Back then they were mostly militant red communists that later channeled their beliefs into main stream politics. Why do so many people fail to see that these Marxist nutters have not changed their spots!
It's amazing, when I was a BiB the job was 1)prevention of crime, 2) the DETECTION of crime. No where did it say "as and when" and that raising extra taxes was a priority. Perhaps these officers who refuse to do their job i.e., the detection of crime should be reported for dereliction of duty.
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