Tracker systems - what if the police don't respond

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Article from superbike:

Catch some robbers
Steve Ford, the MD of Autoleck Ltd (a tracking alarm company), thought he should share his run-in (or serious lack of) with the police this weekend. He wrote in after the Boys in Blue decided a stolen motorcycle wasn't important enough to respond to, despite the fact Steve's company had tracked the bike and knew its exact location.

It all began at 5.52pm on Sunday when Luke Connell's Suzuki GSX-R600 was stolen from outside his house. "The technology our company uses alerted us to the problem quickly," said Steve, "and we tracked the bike to its first parked position on Cromwell Road, London NW10."

Luke (the owner of the bike) called the police, but they told him there was no one to respond, even though they had the location of the bike and it had only just been stolen. Panicking about his bike, as it's only two weeks old, Luke drove to the location to survey the situation. Autolek feared for his safety at this point, so they called 999 and joined the long queue of waiting calls.

"We eventually got the CAD number and recalled 999, we spoke to an officer and passed on the new current position as the bike had been ridden to another area," said Steve, "so they said 'we'll see what we can do'. It is now over an hour since the bike has been stolen, and still no response!"

Meanwhile, Autolek were concerned for Luke's safety, especially since they didn't know who or what was using the bike. So Autolek decided to call in their personal assistance team for the recovery. "We guided Luke and the team to the parked location of the bike." Said Steve, "Astonishingly, on their way they passed a police car stopping a biker. When confronted by our team, the officer, who was only two minutes away from the bike, did not know anything about the incident."

Luke and the team arrived at the scene and recovered the bike at 7.32pm, then the police decided to turn up. You can understand if all the available officers were called out to a school bus full of kids being held hostage. But the fact that one of them was 'busy' stopping a biker, two minutes from the scene, blissfully unaware of the situation is just downright stupid. Do they not have radios? It really doesn't do the image of the police any good when things like this come to light. It does make you wonder, individuals and companies take the measures to protect their property, just what will it take for the police to back them up?

What is the point of spending your money on this sort of system if the police don't care. You know how much interest they take normally when you bike is stolen, you would think they would at least respond and maybe even catch someone!
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[instigator]

Thats plain disgusting...

[cc123]

I take it the police don't see a cut of the money spent on tracker systems?

I don't think this is the first time police have ignored pleas from bikers when there bikes go missing. I wonder how that guy must have felt knowing someone had stolen his bike yet the police done nothing about it. Surely a complaint would be worth filling!?
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[Krs]

It's only good if the bike doesn't get burned which is quite rare

[Bendy]

That's terrible.

Couple of years ago, I called the police cos there was an extremely dubious looking van parked outside my flat. Given that someone had tried to steal my CBR a week previously, there had been numerous car break ins over the last couple of months and what looked rather like someone dealing drugs from the flat across the road, I though I was fairly justified in raising the alarm (as did my neighbour who I spoke to before calling).

They said they'd send someone round within 15 mins. I stayed up for 5 hours until the van fucked off... no police, no call to see if it was still there, no nothing. I mean, I appreciate that there are only so many officers out there, but come on!

Also, when I called to report the attempted theft of my bike (as I had a rough description of the van I thought I may as well) they asked for all the details of the bike and gave me a crime number so that "If they come back and actually take it, we'll know they tried once before." Gee, thanks guys.

[Kris]

To be fair though, the police will have to priorotise calls and maybe a stolen bike wasn't top of their list at that present time. I'm sure this isn't anything new - I've heard similar stories of people ringing up whilst people were breaking into garages etc. Just because you've stumped up £xxx for a tracker system doesn't give your 999 call any more urgency. It is 'just' a bike after all.

Although saying that, there is no excuse for having cars in the area not doing anything when a crime has been reprted as 'in progress'. Common sense dictates that if you have the chance to catch the criminal red-handed, you bloody well take it.


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[cc123]

^^ But is a stolen bike more important than pulling over a biker for a routine check?

It was obvious they where just not interested in this case.

[Kris]

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[Kris]

[cc123]

Joking mate........

I was just reiterating the point!
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[theftvictim]

I read this is MCN too - basically the company Autoleck https://www.motorcycletracking.info have started to hire former perosnal security to actually go and secure the bike once it's been tracked because the police were so unresponsive.

I am in two minds of purchasing such a unit for £500...If I knew the location of the bike and it was close, there would be no need to call the police!