Why is car crime unpunished/ unpoliced?
Discussion
So, got a call from my brother today, his M3 has been stolen off the drive overnight… It has been elsewhere for a week, & the one night it was at home, it has beeb lifted.
The police are absolutely disinterested, to the point of being sarcastic. No one sent round, despite lots of potential evidence & CCTV availability.
The village has had numerous high value thefts recently, same old story, no one is interested. It seems that that gangs of thieves operating in the area are doing it will total impunity, & no fear of ever getting caught.
Car theft has a major impact on hard working people, yet offenders very rarely get caught, & very rarely get proportionate sentences, surely there has to be a vast increase in detection & punishment to start to bring this back under control?
The police are absolutely disinterested, to the point of being sarcastic. No one sent round, despite lots of potential evidence & CCTV availability.
The village has had numerous high value thefts recently, same old story, no one is interested. It seems that that gangs of thieves operating in the area are doing it will total impunity, & no fear of ever getting caught.
Car theft has a major impact on hard working people, yet offenders very rarely get caught, & very rarely get proportionate sentences, surely there has to be a vast increase in detection & punishment to start to bring this back under control?
So… Update time.
Comedy this morning, just sat having lunch with my brother, door bell goes… Pcso is raising awareness of lots of thefts in the area, & is distributing faraday pouches. She asks “Have you got a keyless car?” My brother answers “No, but I have got a carless key, it got stolen last week off the drive & you were not interested then” (Car was not keyless just for background info).
Fair play to her though, she promised to go & check what was happening. Brother got a call late afternoon, seems it triggered an ANPR camera in Birmingham at 11pm, so was stolen probably 10:15pm to 10:30pm… Village CCTV conveniently didn’t pick it up, despite there only being 2 entrances to the estate, both covered by the CCTV cameras…..Neighbours CCTV has been electronically jammed somehow so didn’t activate.
Still a pile of glass on the drive, then around the corner the drivers window remains along with lots of bodge tape, so looks like taped the window up, OBD port used to deactivate alarm & key clone, then pushed off the drive up the road before being started. It has given them less than an hour between the car getting home & being stolen, so probably been watched for a while or followed home.
Car has been found today in Cambridge, stripped & burnt out, so thats that. Oh, and there is no forensic evidence to collect, police have washed their hands of it & its now my brothers responsibility to get it recovered.
Oh, in the same village, two cars were stolen with forced entry key theft last week, & THREE, yes THREE, were stolen from the same road last night….. This is a quiet, nice village, not the bronx.
Welcome to lawless Britain….
Comedy this morning, just sat having lunch with my brother, door bell goes… Pcso is raising awareness of lots of thefts in the area, & is distributing faraday pouches. She asks “Have you got a keyless car?” My brother answers “No, but I have got a carless key, it got stolen last week off the drive & you were not interested then” (Car was not keyless just for background info).
Fair play to her though, she promised to go & check what was happening. Brother got a call late afternoon, seems it triggered an ANPR camera in Birmingham at 11pm, so was stolen probably 10:15pm to 10:30pm… Village CCTV conveniently didn’t pick it up, despite there only being 2 entrances to the estate, both covered by the CCTV cameras…..Neighbours CCTV has been electronically jammed somehow so didn’t activate.
Still a pile of glass on the drive, then around the corner the drivers window remains along with lots of bodge tape, so looks like taped the window up, OBD port used to deactivate alarm & key clone, then pushed off the drive up the road before being started. It has given them less than an hour between the car getting home & being stolen, so probably been watched for a while or followed home.
Car has been found today in Cambridge, stripped & burnt out, so thats that. Oh, and there is no forensic evidence to collect, police have washed their hands of it & its now my brothers responsibility to get it recovered.
Oh, in the same village, two cars were stolen with forced entry key theft last week, & THREE, yes THREE, were stolen from the same road last night….. This is a quiet, nice village, not the bronx.
Welcome to lawless Britain….
I don’t blame the individual officers, 95% seem to be decent people that are just as frustrated as the rest of us with the situation. I blame the Judiciary & policy makers, instead of policing twitter for people saying nasty words, get out there & sort the issues in the real world.
They need backing up with much harsher sentences & punishments. I don’t care if prison does not work, at lesst they are off the streets…
I can only imagine how soul destroying it must be for a copper to spend months catching & building cases against these career criminal oxygen burglars , only to see them let off with a slap on the wrists.
They need backing up with much harsher sentences & punishments. I don’t care if prison does not work, at lesst they are off the streets…
I can only imagine how soul destroying it must be for a copper to spend months catching & building cases against these career criminal oxygen burglars , only to see them let off with a slap on the wrists.
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