I thought this was illegal. But it seems common police (and vigilante) behaviour now.
www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cx99gwnjlzdo

Easy pickings JK.

It's impossible to see a copper when your house has been done, it's mostly done over the phone and you might have to find your own evidence. Like a ciggie butt or footprint, then put it in a sandwich bag and take it in the police station.


The police will give you a crime number to use when there is updates. You will be told there is nothing else they can do and the file is closed.

The police like looking at computer screens or sitting behind the wheel of the police car more than actually doing the hard and serious graft of real genuine policing that takes time and effort.

Do you think the police ar keeping constant tabs on this site JK?

Surely this kind of thing is tantamount to the police manufacturing their own crimes they then solve.

I think the Police like to appear to be pro actively tackling and preventing crime. When they mostly just react, or don't react at all.

It is also not true that in cases like this they are preventing crime because we don't know if the perpetrator would have gone through with sexual contact. A whole range of factors may have caused him to change his mind.

Meanwhile, we never see Police on our streets or in town centres anymore; unless they come out in thousands to "Police" demos.

I think there needs to be a national debate on what the purpose today is of the Police? Followed by a reset. This is though more the fault of politicians than police officers.

Wyot wrote:
Meanwhile, we never see Police on our streets or in town centres anymore; unless they come out in thousands to "Police" demos.

They leave that to the outdated CCTV cameras the councils installed years ago, probaby from your golden mane mullet era Wyot, the plastic coppers PSCO's/Cadets or whatever they called these days. Some towns have Rangers who might be able to bar people in to shops.

When I do see police officers in town it's either they have been called from a business to remove someone or report a crime. When a town event is on, they will patrol the area or try and look and cool by giving away goodie bags and do face painting.

I am still fuming over the loss of my Out Of Print Genesis box sets, power tools, generator and some rings I inherited, which was I had stolen from burglary

Has Theresa May ever given a serious account of why she thought it was sensible or justifiable to get rid of 20,000 experienced police officers while she was home secretary bewteen 2010 and 2016? The money doesn't cut it for me as an excuse after the hundreds of billions spent and mainly wasted in recent times. Neither does simply replacing them again cut it either, you can't replace all that experience she got rid of. Now these people that created all this damage will just walk away from it.

Rich wrote:
Has Theresa May ever given a serious account of why she thought it was sensible or justifiable to get rid of 20,000 experienced police officers while she was home secretary bewteen 2010 and 2016? The money doesn't cut it for me as an excuse after the hundreds of billions spent and mainly wasted in recent times. Neither does simply replacing them again cut it either, you can't replace all that experience she got rid of. Now these people that created all this damage will just walk away from it.

Billions wasted during Convid and more billions wasted on Ukraine.