If they think you are molesting HIM, you won't end up with 1 pc but half a dozen.. (see Cherie Blair case..) so get him to report you for sexual harassment::-(
madf
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I think I will take NOFM2R (apols if order is wrong) approach, but in a non-emotive, very controlled letter (in other words, the exact opposite of what I would LIKE to write).
I genuinely don't understand WHY they don't think it's important. Surely they must see examples of such driving all the time, and surely be able to understand how irresponsible such people are?
Part of me is tempted to confront the little scrote myself, but then I'd end up in trouble.... they'd be quick enough to respond to a "nasty 34 year old man uses horrid words to poor defenceless boy" call out.
I am heartily sick of my local police, they're useless.
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The modern day Police are so dominated by performance targets, that serving the public has gone out of the equation. The last five years frightens me, The way to deal with these idiots is so simple, stop them, check on any modifications, and let their insurers know, with a covering report as to what they were involved in. When their insurance is voided then seize the car. most boy racers have insurance, but dont tell their insurance company of the modifications. Complain to the Chief Constable, he will make sure your complaint is looked into. the more people who do this will make them think whats happening now is wrong. I think they have just started to wake up. Moral at our local Police division is rock bottom. I am not a serving Police Officer, but am a member of NARPO, also please do not blame the PCs, the majority are doing their best, but you must get the public on your side. Many years ago I was the only officer on duty at a market town on the border of worcs and shrops. A gang of drunks from a town in Herefs turned up in town. I won, but only with the help of the locals. they must be seen as part of the community and not against them.
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Every current or former police officer I know amongst my friends (and some have been featured on national television whilst doing their work) retirement can't come too soon or is over the moon (as a footballer would say) that they are free at last.
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Thames Valley responded well, eventually, in a similar circumstance. Youngster driving Mum's car was using my (non highway, multi-ownership) lane for skid training with another mate in his car. The little LYs bike up and down it, and dog walkers also use it. I reported him once, and nothing happened. Saw the lad doing the same again the following day, called again and an hour later was called by a local PC who'd been round to his house, and offered to take away his driving licence if he was reported again.
Write to the CC (and cc it to yr MP and local councillor) call the local rag, and make a fuss. They don't like being shown up in the press, IMHO.
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All this is very worrying and can confirm a friend of mine who is an officer working in the Royal Parks and he says much the same and cannot wait for retirement.
I recently reported (with numberplate) a car speeding in excess of 70 mph or 80mph in a 30mph limit outside my home. The Police said they would speak to him but only yesterday I saw him doing the same speeds on the same bit of road.
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" I genuinely don't understand WHY they don't think it's important."
It's simple. Who do the Chief Constables report to?
The Local Community?
The County Council?
The local Police Authority but
... at the end of the day it's the Home Secretary... and the present incumbent is so busy reversing everything that Blunkett did that that alone tells you a story.
Central control of police = police state...= priorities set by anyone BUT the people who pay...
Our local setup is designed that no after hours crime can be reported to a live person....
madf
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Do you have a local beat officer - hopefully, (s)he's still a 'proper' police officer and not a CSO (though some of these are also good) If so, then talk to them directly.
If you can't contact your beat officer - or they're useless - then you really do have problems. Consider moving.
I really wouldn't embellish your story - you need to be seen as a reliable witness.
I can sympathise with Stuarti's police friends.
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Stevee, that's why I have addressed the local CAT team. I know from meeting them out and about that they are good, and work in conjunction with our beat officers (astonishingly we have two!!!).
Madf, I can only confirm that the problem of "9-5 crime" is endemic. Our local police station shuts at 5. A friend of mine once said, in a heated discussion with an off-duty, and fairly senior copper (who I am compelled to report was a pompous, stuffy, unintelligent, un-free thinking buffoon) "So, you're telling me that Cheshire criminals only commit crime during business hours?". Made me smile. Buffoon had no reply at all, I think he was scared by the concept of having to think for himself and not having an answer to read off a crib sheet....
I wouldn't dream of embellishing the story! No need to... if the story is ignored, I can say with conviction "this alone is not enough to warrant investigation".
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Good points. I am not anti-PCs at all, I am more than aware it's useless, ineffectual management that gets in the way.
I have sent a letter to my local CAT (Community Action Team), from which I will await a reply. If I do not receive one within 7 days, I will forward it to the Chief Constable, MP and all the others that have been mentioned. Thanks for your assistance with this everyone.
Steve
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Forget the police. Tennis ball wedged in the exhaust pipe.
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: ) Don't know where he lives mate... maybe I should follow him some time....
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Just happened to notice, written on the back of a local police car ,parked outside the local police station, the following message.
" Protecting The Community "
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: ) Don't know where he lives mate... maybe I should follow him some time....
Perhaps if you follow him you won't be able to resist the temptation to blast past him in a completely unsuitable place and so humiliate him that he will drive impeccably from then on stevied.... However the potato-up-exhaust-pipe solution might work for a while if you find the jalopy parked and unattended... shove it well in with a stick.
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Expanding foam squirted way up inside the exhaust out of view, will cause no end of head scratching, when it has set .
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RIng back or write in, doesn't really matter....and say you would like to make a formal complaint (about the way your information has been mishandled i.e. what have they done about it? why haven't you been asked to make a statement? why were you not given any kind of reference no? (it wouldn't have been a crime no. it would probably need to be a computer generated control room ref no).
Don't allow yourself to be 'fobbed off', by whoever answers the phone if that's your course of action.
The complaint will be dealt with by an Inspector and he/she will have a number of options, the most minor of which is an 'Informal Resolution'. You can agree to that......but...... only when the information you have been previously given is properly actioned and you have proof that this is so (ref no.), so the complaint will remain outstanding until that is so. If the complaint is not properly actioned you will complain further via your MP (won't you).
There is no reason at all why the info you've given cannot be at least put onto a criminal intelligence database and/or passed to officers who concentrate on traffic work.
I suspect that due to the volume of calls and/or the unlikelihood of a busy control room dealing with everything they get that night, then your info may not have been actioned at all. Sadly it happens all the time. Too much work, not enough staff.
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When they park, as they do, where they like and shuffle off to the cash machine with their poxy little cars with their poxy big stereos thumping out loud just reach in and turn off the ignition. Take the keys and drop them in an adjacent drain. It is soooo funny. When they lose their comfort zone they become very unsettled. Then look at their emaciated faces under their silly caps. Emaciated if you look really closely, cos they eat only burgers and drink only coca cola and then suggest to them that a few vegetables, (no, not their mates), and a bit of fish may improve the spots and also their attitude.....Like the firework....you have lit the blue touchpaper...then retire......I don't care anymore and nor do my tax paying educated colleagues....Enough is enough.
vbr...MD
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However the potato-up-exhaust-pipe solution might work for awhile if you find the jalopy parked and unattended...
That was of course a joke stevied, as I'm sure you realised. It isn't gentlemanly to mess with other people's property in their absence, although I suppose the spud immobilizer is more practical joke than vandalism.
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Come on, do a Cameron and hug them for making your life hell! It'll make all the difference...
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