What is a car crime?
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As my name would suggest I am a motor trader with retail premises, however when I am overstocked I will have some cars at home.
Some scrotes visit me one night and break into 4 cars causing plenty of damage, they steal nothing because there is nothing to steal, however they have butchered locks to get in.
On one of the vehicles (a Porsche 911) they have removed the side glass to gain entry. The glass is covered in finger prints.
Telephone local police station to ask for somebody to come out and are told "we dont come out to car crime!)
Explain about prints on glass and am told they will ring back.5 hours later they ring back however the print man is busy and cant come out, but if you drop the glass with us we will finger print it when we get chance!! Cant tell me when I will get my glass back.
Same day the police, customs and excise, DSS,DOT, and god knows who else are congrigated by the Frontier nightclub in Batley using their car park as a vehicle check point, pulling in vehicles, dipping the tank, checking to see if you are signing on the dole and virtually doing a roadside MOT on my car transporter.including jacking it up in the air(they found nothing). Total time taken from been flagged down to leaving 45 minutes.
Total number of police, traffic wardens, customs and other bods at least 15.
Motorists and law abiding citizens of the Uk are having the piss taken out of them.
Rant Over.
Got to agree. Every car I have ever owned up to now (5) has either been broken into or stolen.
How often have I ever even seen a policeman - despite reporting every crime? Just once... oh and even on that occasion the police insurers decided to sue me for damage to a police car that the scrotes caused when trying to get away from the chasing police.
On that occasion they had broken into the house to get the car keys, and there was the possibility of fingerprints on the door. So the attending officer radioed for SOCO to come take some fingerprints. The reply... "sorry he's too busy".
Just posted on here recently that I reported someone trying to break into my wifes car last weekend at 4:30 in the morning. Didn't even get a crime number that time, because 'no damage had been done'.. cos i scared the scrote off in time.
Oh I'm in West Yorks too - perhaps its just our area??
>> Edited by r32 on Friday 14th May 08:34
How often have I ever even seen a policeman - despite reporting every crime? Just once... oh and even on that occasion the police insurers decided to sue me for damage to a police car that the scrotes caused when trying to get away from the chasing police.
On that occasion they had broken into the house to get the car keys, and there was the possibility of fingerprints on the door. So the attending officer radioed for SOCO to come take some fingerprints. The reply... "sorry he's too busy".
Just posted on here recently that I reported someone trying to break into my wifes car last weekend at 4:30 in the morning. Didn't even get a crime number that time, because 'no damage had been done'.. cos i scared the scrote off in time.
Oh I'm in West Yorks too - perhaps its just our area??
>> Edited by r32 on Friday 14th May 08:34
Tell them either:
a) you are a member of an ethnic minority and if they fail to attend you will report them for "institutionalised racism"; or
b) that you will shoot the scrotes.
(b) will get an instantaneous response. There is a danger that you will be shot yourself, so I suggest you do not wave around the camera with telephoto lens you were using to "shoot" the scrotes. (a) should get a quick response too, especially if you get the name/collar number of the person to whom you reported the incident.
In both cases make sure you report your experiences to the media. It is terribly sad, but unfortunately true, that options (a) and (b) have been forced upon us.
In the event that neither (a) nor (b) get any response (unlikely), mock up some photographs and sell them to a (not very) particular daily newspaper.
Streaky
a) you are a member of an ethnic minority and if they fail to attend you will report them for "institutionalised racism"; or
b) that you will shoot the scrotes.
(b) will get an instantaneous response. There is a danger that you will be shot yourself, so I suggest you do not wave around the camera with telephoto lens you were using to "shoot" the scrotes. (a) should get a quick response too, especially if you get the name/collar number of the person to whom you reported the incident.
In both cases make sure you report your experiences to the media. It is terribly sad, but unfortunately true, that options (a) and (b) have been forced upon us.
In the event that neither (a) nor (b) get any response (unlikely), mock up some photographs and sell them to a (not very) particular daily newspaper.
Streaky
Thanks for responses.............
R32....I think west yorkshire is particually bad for night policing as the police told me they only have two cars to cover a massive area.............where does all the money the cameras generate go??
These roadside checks really do P**s me off though........
My own pet rant:
I reported a crime (theft) at a previous construction site I worked on, which happened to be under a motorway viaduct and adjacent a dual carriageway which went under said viaduct.
cops said the same thing "haven't got the time/resource, sorry".
Half hour later (after the lunch hour), at the same very site at which the theft had occurred, there were 3 cop bikes, two cop cars and about 9 coppers speed-trapping motorists along the dual carriageway and hauling them in, due to the fact the area under the motorway viaduct is in shadow and dark, and very easy to conceal yourself, 3 bikes, 2 cars and about 8 colleagues.
Oh how i ranted to them.
You couldn't make this shite up.
I reported a crime (theft) at a previous construction site I worked on, which happened to be under a motorway viaduct and adjacent a dual carriageway which went under said viaduct.
cops said the same thing "haven't got the time/resource, sorry".
Half hour later (after the lunch hour), at the same very site at which the theft had occurred, there were 3 cop bikes, two cop cars and about 9 coppers speed-trapping motorists along the dual carriageway and hauling them in, due to the fact the area under the motorway viaduct is in shadow and dark, and very easy to conceal yourself, 3 bikes, 2 cars and about 8 colleagues.
Oh how i ranted to them.
You couldn't make this shite up.
A tip - find out what the current strategic objectives of your local force are. They may well be on the website, or in the published community safety strategy.
Find which one your crime best fits into, and use the appropriate buzz-phrase repeatedly while reporting it.
Taking the collar number/name of your call-taker is likely to be of fairly minimal overall effect, as there will be a very clear audit trail back to them on the force's computer systems in any event. A much, much better response rate is involved in occasions when you believe the culprits are still 'in the area', or, if it's a cold event, when you believe you have been targetted in a 'hate crime'.
Please, though, don't push the buttons for a blue light response if it isn't genuinely justified. They can kill people.
Tol
Find which one your crime best fits into, and use the appropriate buzz-phrase repeatedly while reporting it.
Taking the collar number/name of your call-taker is likely to be of fairly minimal overall effect, as there will be a very clear audit trail back to them on the force's computer systems in any event. A much, much better response rate is involved in occasions when you believe the culprits are still 'in the area', or, if it's a cold event, when you believe you have been targetted in a 'hate crime'.
Please, though, don't push the buttons for a blue light response if it isn't genuinely justified. They can kill people.
Tol
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