Tracker - Police won't do anything.

The trouble with Clarkson is he says what he believes to be the truth and it often is.

I love it when the armchair policemen come out of the woodwork. I've not seen a good Police bashing thread for a while...

[Biker Biggles]

Originally Posted by Nelson

I love it when the armchair policemen come out of the woodwork. I've not seen a good Police bashing thread for a while...

I think thats a bit OTT quite frankly.
The thread is mostly a serious discussion about what the polis can and cant do and what the people should be able to expect from them.Many of the posts are from current or ex coppers,or people who have close contact with polce work.You can sneer at "armchair policemen"but why shouldnt people ask genuine questions about what the police do in one of their most basic functions,dealing with serious theft.

Originally Posted by Biker Biggles

I think thats a bit OTT quite frankly.
The thread is mostly a serious discussion about what the polis can and cant do and what the people should be able to expect from them.Many of the posts are from current or ex coppers,or people who have close contact with polce work.You can sneer at "armchair policemen"but why shouldnt people ask genuine questions about what the police do in one of their most basic functions,dealing with serious theft.

If people came on and asked questions or opinions from the coppers on here, then fair enough. What we have in this thread is "the cops should do this that or the next thing" or "the cops didnt do this cos they'd rather persecute innocent motorists than catch real criminals", ad infinitum.

My own personal opinion is that the news story is pretty sensationalist, as expected. Hopefully the owner was insured for his £9k bike and will recieve a nice payout. Unless my bike was extremely personalised or had sentimental value, I don't think I'd particularly want it back. If it does later on get recovered by the Police and the offender is prosecuted, then that's great, but if that doesn't happen for whatever reason then its not the end of the world.

But it sure would be nice to see them make more of an effort to prosecute someone who's done something wrong rather than just let it slip...

Regardless of the context of the news story, "its insured, not the end of the world" isnt good enough. Annual appraisal = must try harder. I am paid to do a job and I take pride in doing that job and strive to do it to the best of my ability. If my customers are not delivered what I promise, they get a big fat service penalty cheque, but wouldnt be accepted for employees to say "well theyll get financially compensated so its not the end of the world"

Sorry, just my opinion and I'm just being honest with you.

Originally Posted by pete m

Cant help but think Clarksons not going to be PM now ..in fact he's not going to be invited to any parties at all for a while .....

I think you might be right!

Originally Posted by Nelson

If people came on and asked questions or opinions from the coppers on here, then fair enough. What we have in this thread is "the cops should do this that or the next thing" or "the cops didnt do this cos they'd rather persecute innocent motorists than catch real criminals", ad infinitum.

My own personal opinion is that the news story is pretty sensationalist, as expected. Hopefully the owner was insured for his £9k bike and will recieve a nice payout. Unless my bike was extremely personalised or had sentimental value, I don't think I'd particularly want it back. If it does later on get recovered by the Police and the offender is prosecuted, then that's great, but if that doesn't happen for whatever reason then its not the end of the world.

OK kool I tell you what lets say your house gets broke into they steal pretty much everything, including your dog, your bike ect. Hey don't worry about it, at least you have insurance right? Who cares!

[Sid Squid]

Originally Posted by Nelson

I love it when the armchair policemen come out of the woodwork. I've not seen a good Police bashing thread for a while...

That's helpful. The message I've got from reading this thread is that people would just like the Police to show up when they're called and maybe do something useful like reuniting people with their property if it wouldn't be too much trouble - and in the circumstance described by the OP it seems it wouldn't be too much trouble.

Now, I wonder why it is that public confidence in the Police is at an all time low?

[Red Herring]

Originally Posted by Sid Squid

That's helpful. The message I've got from reading this thread is that people would just like the Police to show up when they're called and maybe do something useful like reuniting people with their property if it wouldn't be too much trouble - and in the circumstance described by the OP it seems it wouldn't be too much trouble.

Now, I wonder why it is that public confidence in the Police is at an all time low?

Perhaps it would have been useful if the Op had defined "large number" of lock up garages. I'd say 10-15 and it might not be unreasonable to expect the police to makes some enquiries to track down each owner/tenant and gain access to each one, not ignoring the fact that this would need to be done fairly swiftly and with some continuity as the bike is unlikely to remain there very long if word were to go round that the police were sniffing around. That might sound easy if the garages all belonged to a single block of flats, but if they were rented out to people all over the adjacent estate it would be a nightmare. Any more than that and it becomes a logistical nightmare and unless you can find a copper that was prepared to resort to some devious means then it just isn't practicable.

So actually Sid, yes, it could be to much trouble, and it would be wrong if that wasn't taken into account.