I gave police my burglar’s name and address — guess what happened
https://www.thetimes.com/uk/crime/article/i-gave-police-my-burglars-name-and-address-guess-what-happened-tkg8sr6rs
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I gave police my burglar’s name and address — guess what happened
https://www.thetimes.com/uk/crime/article/i-gave-police-my-burglars-name-and-address-guess-what-happened-tkg8sr6rs
Posted by GhostMotley
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Telling us something we already know unfortunately.
I’m sure the Telegraph would support taxation of wealth to fund more police officers.
Listen, the police have got far too much to deal with on Twitter. Two tier kier is keen to ensure Twitter is safe from meanies and political rivals.
Your burglary doesn’t matter. If you don’t like it, don’t fight back because we’ll jail you if you do!!
Let the tiers of justice come together.
This is quite an insane story, a barrister’s house got burgled.
One of the burglars left behind their own bail sheet with their name, date of birth, address and bail conditions, which you can actually find on the barrister’s X/Twitter account.
The barrister contacted the police with this information, expecting the police to take action and the police initially asked him ‘what do you want us to do about it’ and eventually told him to consider moving to a safer area.
Were Paul Powlesland to put up a website with “Perps-firstname-and-secondname burgled my yurt and the police did nothing”, what would happen?
I wonder what did he expect, doesn’t he know how the police works in the UK?
He’s a barrister and doesn’t know our society already collapsed a few years ago ?
SOMEONE left behind a bail sheet with the person’s name.
“I lost that in town your Honour”.
But didn’t bother reporting it!
OK, so that aside, what’s his other complaint?
He was told to report it in 101 like everyone else, rather than make his complaint to a Custody Centre?
A Custody Centre is for dealing with people in custody. Not for reporting crimes. If you go to ANY custody centre for anything not related to someone is custody, you’re getting turned away.
He HAD to attend a police station to make the report? No he didn’t, he choose to do that.
In 2 cases he reported the police had arrested and charged.
“I’ve stopped reporting it now”. So how many times DID he report it, and how many times did the police investigate?
‘A man with knife’ – “I didn’t bother reporting it” FFS!!
All a bit of a non-story really.
Man is a victim of crime, but doesn’t bother reporting, claims police don’t do anything.
This time last year I ended up doing some work with a parish councillor for a village just outside the M25. He wasn’t your typical pensioner with too much time on their hands but this forty-something businessman (no idea what his business was) who’d come to power in what he called an “anti-crime campaign.”
There’d been a spate of burglaries in the village, many at night when the victims were asleep upstairs, with the typical lack of interest from the police. This guy had gone door to door inviting people to join a WhatsApp group where they could send a message if their house was being robbed.
Everyone on the group would then rush over to confront the burglars. They’d ‘arrested’ three guys that way and handed them over to the police, with two of them serving prison sentences at the time I was there. The councillor himself had lost two cricket bats to police raids, and in the end the police stationed a single car in the village overnight, essentially to get to the burglars before the mob did.
The councillor was perfectly happy, as from his perspective he’d achieved what he set out to do by forcing the police to increase patrols in the area. The problem, of course, is that in their case the only way to get the police to respond to the victims of burglaries was to place the criminals at (potential) risk as well.
i got robbed four times in six months in 2017, eventually he fucked up and left a crowbar in my house so the police spent six months getting the dna off it, then decided that it wasnt worth putting it forward to the cps… because they thought the cps wouldn’t prosecute… because they thought cps would assume the magistrate wouldn’t give him a prison sentence… because the guy had a long history of burglary offences.
Why do I have to log in to fucking everything just to read words on a screen
I thought the punchline was going to be the barrister somehow fixing the problem by using some devious but legal tactic. If the police ignore even a barrister, things are in bad shape. Can the police be sued?
My fathers house was burgled in the middle of the day (central cardiff)
He had a security camera on the back door. The camera filmed the two burglers pissing around in the back garden looking for a way to break in. Full faces, no masks. They found a spade right by the camera and eventually used the spade to smash the back window in and rob the house.
He showed the two police that turned up eventually. One of the officers recognised the two and said oh yeah its X and Y from the other side of the tracks.
Oh well, here is your crime number for the insurance.
They didnt even take the recordings of the two. They never did anything, I doubt they did anything further beyond hitting submit on the crime report
We dont really have a police force any more
Let me guess. They gave him a crime reference number. And that’s it.
This same story happened to me. I had the thief’s address and phone number after they left it behind. I called police, told them and their response was that someone would be in touch. No one called, so I called back and their answer was that they can’t go round there without a reason 😂
That was the day that cemented my opinion of the police being a massive waste of time in this country.
One thing they will respond to is if you say a knife is involved or drugs, anything else and they don’t give a shit.
Who cares about burglars when there are people out there putting hurty words online?
Im guessing they gave him a number and then did nothing
Man fails to follow process and is surprised nothing is done.
Tf does he think *police staff* at the custody suite are going to do? It’s in the name – staff.
This was an infuriating read.
I expect they stated that they couldn’t arrest someone on hearsay !
That’s what I was told when I gave the police the names of the two lads who who stabbed my 12 yr old son they turned round and said it’s 50-50 their word against yr sons word and conveniently no witnesses, even though 6yrs later one of them went onto to murder another lad which he’s now gone to prison for 😡
Friend of mine owns his own builders yard business and a few months back a guy just drove up in a flat bed on a busy day, loaded a load of stuff and drove off. My bud calls the police who see the video he sent them, which clearly shows the truck registration plate, but the police say they can’t do anything as you can’t see the robbers face and when he pointed out that they could see the truck registration though, the police said they couldn’t prove who drove it so weren’t going to follow it up. Couple of months later the same truck rolls up and they spot it this time so they rush out en masse, encircle the truck, took all the stuff off the guy had loaded on, and comprehensively filmed the whole thing and his face from a yard away. Police were too busy to come out at the time. Truck drives off. A week later they get a call saying that because the guy hadn’t actually stolen anything, because it had been taken off the truck, they weren’t going to do anything as nothing criminal had happened. I think this generation of police are just either incompetent or fucking lazy.
The guy who stole my car posted tiktok videos of him joyriding in the car, changing the reg plate and then subsequently burning the car after a month of using it.
Tiktok was in his name, face in video matched his Facebook profile and had his area listed in it (they also posted the area name on tiktok video).
Gave this all to the police and they just said there was no evidence it was definitely them that stole it and closed it down.
They still keep stealing cars and bikes with no repercussions.
> The public are losing faith in our justice system.
Aww, how cute, they use the transitive. We’ve *lost* faith. There’s nothing left *to* lose.
Not at all surprising. When I still lived in England I was robb e ot thousands of points worth of new items for my new house. They were in storage on pallets and there was CCTV footage showing someonetakijg my boxes out of the unit and pwkfint them into their car.
I knew who that someone was. I have his name and address to the police. I also provided them further evidence in pictures of the thief using my items in his own home.
The police weren’t arsed. Said they were too busy dealing with serious crimes. I made some comments about what they consider serious crimes and the officer on the phone suggested that if I carried on, I would be getting a visit from the police. I told him to send whoever he wanted around, but that they had better have someone senior escorting them, called him a nonce, and hung up.
No one came around.