Useless police

[Mark_F]

Just wondering what stories people have where something happened and the police didn't feel it was serious enough to turn up.

I ask as I had a car try to sideswipe me off the motorway today (yes contact was made, but I was in my car thankfully). and the police refused to even turn up and told me to head to the nearest station to my home (around 20 miles away). I did that and was told I might hear something, but it will be weeks off, and may not be investigated further (I'm praying for it to be on camera, it was in a 50mph stretch with average cameras all over the place).

Anyone else encountered similar shite?

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What did you want them to do, put it on Crimewatch?

If damage was done, you have insurance for that. If you have no reg no or footage available, what are po- po to do? Interview every motorist in the country?
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[Ste]

Why do you think that it was someone attempting "to cause a pile up" by trying to sideswipe you off the motorway rather than someone changing lanes without checking their blind spot first?

What would you have wanted plod to do if they had turned up?

Where's the paint diagram?

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Look at it from the lazy doughnut munching plod's POV:

Ragey McRageFace comes in claiming that some nutter has tried to kill him in his car. When they get down to the facts it turns out that there's actually just been a minor collision with no injuries. At worst, it looks like a fail to stop which your police force may have an online reporting form for you to complete to report it.

I know that you probably want the whole of CID, flying squad, dog section and the chopper to come out and arrest the lunatic but I'm assuming the police are prioritising the violent assaults, rapes etc over your incident, the bastards.

Do you have the number plate for the other car? Witnesses? Dash cam?

[bugeye_bob]

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Police generally won't attend if nobody is hurt. They're just not interested.

Unless you provide all the detail (and paint diagram), people will make assumptions.
The main one being that you're bit of a drama queen.
I'm not trying to insult you, it's just my view of how people will read your thread so far.

[Rogerborg]

[Ste]

Roadside drug testing is much more trendy than the boring old breathalyser.

[Minty]

Police turned up at my hit & run (ok, they were passing anyway). Gave first aid, took all details, got me to sign statement. Drove me to A&E ("not supposed to as we get in trouble but this ambulance doesn't appear to be coming anytime soon").

Helped me into A&E, sat me down and registered me with the receptionist and then wished me all the best before going on their merry way.

Driver traced and convicted.

Popo can be a'ight

Stool cory bro.
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[Holdawayt]

Yup, I wouldn't give you a minute of my time either based on this thread.

As far as the police being useless, when we were broken into and threatened by the intruders the police were incredible. Don't have a bad word to say about them (except overzealous traffic police).

[skatefreak]

Had some teenage prick try and over take me on a roundabout,
he caught the front corner of my car destroying a panel and the bumper.
The kid panicked and drove off but was directly behind me going past 5 cameras through a town center.

Reported it to the police and absolutely bollocks all was done about it.
Never even requested footage *shrugs*.

Seems unless someone is deaded, no shit's are given...

Why bother with insurance and all that bollocks when you can just drive off and that's the end of that

[Nexus Icon]

Twice, they've let me down badly, IMO.

Once, I came out of the pub to find all four tyres slashed. I had a pretty good idea who was responsible, never mind the plethora of CCTV in the area. I phoned the local nick and was asked, "What do you expect me to do, sir, arrest him for stealing the air out of them?"

That escalated quite quickly and I was warned about using offensive language towards a police officer.

The second time I almost had to physically drag an officer out of the local station to have a look at my car which had been witnessed being subjected to keying on every panel. I even had the name of the kid who'd done it. No follow up, not interested.

There are plenty of other examples of petty discrimination, abject laziness and downright lying I could give but it just winds me up.

I was in the car with my wife when we were pulled over not that long ago. Apparently he'd watched us walk out of the pub, clearly drunk, and then drive out of the carpark. In truth, we'd parked in the pub carpark to visit the pizza shop next door and hadn't been anywhere near the pub. Lying scrote.
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[dodgydog]

After my van had been broken into for the third time, I made the usual call, (3am on a Wednesday morning this time). To be met with the usual "nobody available to respond" line.

Bur this time the cunts had smashed the passenger side window, so that was my working day gone, (and the money with it).

So I called the Police back, this time I told the controller not to bother sending anyone out, as it had been snowing and there were footprints leading away from the van, (this much was true) I told her I was going to follow them to see who had done it. The conversation went as follows.

"I wouldn't advise that you do that Sir"

Don't worry love, I'm a big lad and I can look after myself, plus I've got a baseball bat, so I'll just take that along, you know, for self defence. But thanks for being so concerned abut me....anyway, got to go now before those tracks get covered, I'll ring you back.

"but..but"

Thanks darling, bye now.

I put the kettle on then, the fucker hadn't boiled before a copper was knocking on the door.


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[Mark_F]

[Alan1986]

In all seriousness, I spend a lot of time on the motorway travelling to and from jobs and this would piss me right off,
It is dangerous,
My first thought would be to follow who ever did it,
But I imagine that can be easier said than done in traffic,
Then again if I was that annoyed I would probably find away to force my way through traffic to keep up with the fucker
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[P.]

I drive a shitter for this reason. Ram the cunt back.

I'm not a massive fan of police personally but yeah I know they aren't going to bother with that.

[andyscooter]

the police round here are all too busy

they have been attending a domestic

three nights running

two dog vans a normal van for suspects and two unmarked cars

for two people arguing
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