Cardboard policeman stolen

[streaky]

No, not a PCSO, but a 9' cardboard replica ("They'll never know the difference!" ) from Suffolk Constabulary.

Essex Police lost a mannequin - a "plastic police officer"?

Durham Constabulary had two metal replicas stolen - "tin Bib"?

Among other items lost or stolen were:
Three dogs
27 motor vehicles
50 computers
104 radio handsets
149 satnav systems
189 mobile 'phones
109 batons (extendible, huntsmen for the clubbing of)
187 pairs of handcuffs (now being put to use in the bedroom?)
113 torches
141 caps and helmets
£40 of clay pigeons
An ornamental urn ("What's a Greek urn? About 10 drachmae a week!" )
305 cones (by Derbyshire Police)
A £100,000 flat-bed truck (from Staffordshire cops)
Three flat screen TVs (off the back of a lorry as they were being driven to the police station!)


And, finally, Northumbria Police lost a toilet roll. At least it wasn't the whole toilet, so they have something to go on, but ... their clean-up rate had suffered!

Streaky

Edited by streaky on Sunday 3rd February 15:54

[Paulle]

Cheers Streaky,must be embarassing for them to phone up & report the thefts!

[Taita]

Is that in a year? Some of those figures look pretty high! Wonder how much it costs.....

How do you lose a dog? Or a hat?!

[Chrispy Porker]

without saying too much, some of those items were meant to be stolen

[Dogwatch]

A nine foot cardboard cut-out? True from a distance you might not realise the size of it, but as you get closer surely its size must become obvious? Suspicions might be aroused that it isn't the real thing otherwise plod cars would be driving around with tank hatches above the front seats.

I'm only 5'10" but these days many of them seem to be a lot smaller than me.

[qooqiiu]

Dogwatch said:

I'm only 5'10" but these days many of them seem to be a lot smaller than me.

That's because the ARE a lot shorter!
They dropped the statutory height requirement years ago.
To encourage girls to join???

[FishFace]

To fit in with discrimination legislation.

[grumbledoak]

Granted gender, sexuality, colour, and age are no-go (no-joke?) areas, but I thought you were still allowed to be Welsh-ist and Height-ist?

[Number 7]

Chrispy Porker said:

without saying too much, some of those items were meant to be stolen

OK, I'll bite. So now the Police are involved in the theft of taxpayers property? Is this so that they can get easily solve the case and mark-up another target, or are they on for a slice of the proceeds?

7.

[Chrispy Porker]

Number 7 said:

Chrispy Porker said:

without saying too much, some of those items were meant to be stolen

OK, I'll bite. So now the Police are involved in the theft of taxpayers property? Is this so that they can get easily solve the case and mark-up another target, or are they on for a slice of the proceeds?

7.

Think in terms of rat traps.
Once someone is charged with the theft, it becomes part of the theft statistics. The property stolen belongs to the Police, obviously, so they are the 'loser'.

ETA there were scores of such cases in my force last year.

Edited by Chrispy Porker on Sunday 3rd February 18:12

[streaky]

Chrispy Porker said:

Number 7 said:

Chrispy Porker said:

without saying too much, some of those items were meant to be stolen

OK, I'll bite. So now the Police are involved in the theft of taxpayers property? Is this so that they can get easily solve the case and mark-up another target, or are they on for a slice of the proceeds?

7.

Think in terms of rat traps.
Once someone is charged with the theft, it becomes part of the theft statistics. The property stolen belongs to the Police, obviously, so they are the 'loser'.

ETA there were scores of such cases in my force last year.

What? You 'lost' scores of dogs, motor vehicles, computers, radio handsets, satnav systems, mobile 'phones, batons, handcuffs, torches, caps and helmets, clay pigeons, ornamental urns, cones, flat-bed trucs, flat screen TVs and toilet rolls? Mighty careless (or lots of 'rat traps') - Streaky

[Sheriff JWPepper]

Chrispy Porker said:

without saying too much, some of those items were meant to be stolen

[touchnose] I get ya, Guv'nor.

[Chrispy Porker]

streaky said:

Chrispy Porker said:

Number 7 said:

Chrispy Porker said:

without saying too much, some of those items were meant to be stolen

OK, I'll bite. So now the Police are involved in the theft of taxpayers property? Is this so that they can get easily solve the case and mark-up another target, or are they on for a slice of the proceeds?

7.

Think in terms of rat traps.
Once someone is charged with the theft, it becomes part of the theft statistics. The property stolen belongs to the Police, obviously, so they are the 'loser'.

ETA there were scores of such cases in my force last year.

What? You 'lost' scores of dogs, motor vehicles, computers, radio handsets, satnav systems, mobile 'phones, batons, handcuffs, torches, caps and helmets, clay pigeons, ornamental urns, cones, flat-bed trucs, flat screen TVs and toilet rolls? Mighty careless (or lots of 'rat traps') - Streaky

Yes
Scores of 'rat traps' were set where the property was intended to be stolen.
This mostly involved motor vehicles and electrical items.
I thought that this tactic was fairly common knowledge, but I am not going to go into details for obvious reasons.

[Chrispy Porker]

Sheriff JWPepper said:

Chrispy Porker said:

without saying too much, some of those items were meant to be stolen

[touchnose] I get ya, Guv'nor.

I am glad somebody does.
Brilliantly, the local rag made a freedom of information request concerning all items of police property that had been stolen from police vehicles.
The Press office, bless em, told them all about how many sat navs etc had been stolen in such operations.
I was helping to run some of these ops, and was not impressed.
We took the hit as being daft enough to lose the items rather than reveal too much.
Another I am afraid.

Edited by Chrispy Porker on Sunday 3rd February 19:46

[Mg6b]

I have chased suspects on foot and lost my hat in doing so. On re-tracing my steps, the hat is nowhere to be found even though I knew where it had been dropped. To get a replacement from stores, the hat was entered into the crime register as being stolen.
I have also had my police vehicle ransacked when dealing with an incident whilst I was away from it and not being able to see it, losing personal items and items of police uniform such as coats and various headgear. That also is included in the crime registration book.

[fourwheelsteer]

Ah well, I'm sure they got a crime number so they could claim on the insurance. That's all that matters, isn't it?

[streaky]

Chrispy Porker said:

streaky said:

Chrispy Porker said:

Number 7 said:

Chrispy Porker said:

without saying too much, some of those items were meant to be stolen

OK, I'll bite. So now the Police are involved in the theft of taxpayers property? Is this so that they can get easily solve the case and mark-up another target, or are they on for a slice of the proceeds?

7.

Think in terms of rat traps.
Once someone is charged with the theft, it becomes part of the theft statistics. The property stolen belongs to the Police, obviously, so they are the 'loser'.

ETA there were scores of such cases in my force last year.

What? You 'lost' scores of dogs, motor vehicles, computers, radio handsets, satnav systems, mobile 'phones, batons, handcuffs, torches, caps and helmets, clay pigeons, ornamental urns, cones, flat-bed trucs, flat screen TVs and toilet rolls? Mighty careless (or lots of 'rat traps') - Streaky

Yes
Scores of 'rat traps' were set where the property was intended to be stolen.
This mostly involved motor vehicles and electrical items.
I thought that this tactic was fairly common knowledge, but I am not going to go into details for obvious reasons.

Bit unfortunate for the poor pooches, though ... or should we refer to them as goats? Beats me who would risk stealing a police dog.

And I have this mental image of a lonely car-park, one orange street light flickering as the rain sheets down. Around the area are several plain-clothed police officers, cursing as the incessant downpour seeps under their collars and a icy runnel soaks the waistband of their underwear and chills their buttocks. In various vans, uniformed officers huddle together in a smug of wet serge and body odour, strongly tinged with old cigarette smoke. Ears pricked for the shout, they quietly curse their lot, but feel slightly for those out in the deluge.

Meanwhile, sitting all alone in the car-park, watched by the searching eyes of CID, is ...











... a toilet roll.

Streaky

[Conian]

Chrispy Porker said:

without saying too much, some of those items were meant to be stolen
What's that? I've been lightly heckled?
Well in that case, here is the whole story....

[Chrispy Porker]

streaky said:

Chrispy Porker said:

streaky said:

Chrispy Porker said:

Number 7 said:

Chrispy Porker said:

without saying too much, some of those items were meant to be stolen

OK, I'll bite. So now the Police are involved in the theft of taxpayers property? Is this so that they can get easily solve the case and mark-up another target, or are they on for a slice of the proceeds?

7.

Think in terms of rat traps.
Once someone is charged with the theft, it becomes part of the theft statistics. The property stolen belongs to the Police, obviously, so they are the 'loser'.

ETA there were scores of such cases in my force last year.

What? You 'lost' scores of dogs, motor vehicles, computers, radio handsets, satnav systems, mobile 'phones, batons, handcuffs, torches, caps and helmets, clay pigeons, ornamental urns, cones, flat-bed trucs, flat screen TVs and toilet rolls? Mighty careless (or lots of 'rat traps') - Streaky

Yes
Scores of 'rat traps' were set where the property was intended to be stolen.
This mostly involved motor vehicles and electrical items.
I thought that this tactic was fairly common knowledge, but I am not going to go into details for obvious reasons.

Bit unfortunate for the poor pooches, though ... or should we refer to them as goats? Beats me who would risk stealing a police dog.

And I have this mental image of a lonely car-park, one orange street light flickering as the rain sheets down. Around the area are several plain-clothed police officers, cursing as the incessant downpour seeps under their collars and a icy runnel soaks the waistband of their underwear and chills their buttocks. In various vans, uniformed officers huddle together in a smug of wet serge and body odour, strongly tinged with old cigarette smoke. Ears pricked for the shout, they quietly curse their lot, but feel slightly for those out in the deluge.

Meanwhile, sitting all alone in the car-park, watched by the searching eyes of CID, is ...











... a toilet roll.

Streaky

To my shame, I can envisage a scenario where a toilet roll is reported as stolen.
But then I used to work in a custody unit.

[Chrispy Porker]

Conian said:

Chrispy Porker said:

without saying too much, some of those items were meant to be stolen
What's that? I've been lightly heckled?
Well in that case, here is the whole story....

Hardly.