Flippant Police

amandada

Plasticman wrote: »

As all 999 calls are answered by BT and then transferred to your local police force, surely they wouldn't have let the call go on for 20 mins without an answer??? I would have expected them to transfer you to another force.

We have to answer 999 within 10 seconds....

Plasticman

Tozer wrote: »

Sorry but that isn't true in my experience. One of the very few times I have had to call 999 it kept on being "Number busy".

Didn't you even get to speak to the 999 operator when you dialed 999?

Tozer

Plasticman wrote: »

Didn't you even get to speak to the 999 operator when you dialed 999?

Eventually - after about 8 attempts.

Reggie_Rebel

The operators were probably tied up with drunk Welshmen reporting the moon overhead

KILL_BILL

fifi35 wrote: »

I don't think we are getting the full picture here. Obviously the poster is angry at having his bike stolen however it is wrong to blame the police.

First off a Ds (detective Sergeant) would not be involved in the mere theft of a bike. A Ds would be trying to investigate serious crime such as the recent spate of senseless stabbings in London at the moment.

I suspect the Cctv has been checked and the poster just doesn't like the answer.

It would be quite easy to find out who the officer is that dealt with your crime. If you really are unhappy with the way in which it was dealt with then you must make an official complaint and it will be investigated. However as I suspect perhaps you are just very angry at having your bike stolen and need someone to blame. I suggest if this is the case then the police's time would be better spent investigating these serious crimes rather than trivial and vindictive complaints.

again you really need to read posts properly

first off the police never actually looked at the cctv coverage despite them saying that they would - an independant witness confirmed that.

and im not aportinging the blame at the police only the scum that did the crime but clearly if ds feels that this type of crime is so above himself then surely they can designate to etiher a dc or pc ???

again at the end of the day if they had bothered to contact me and advise me if what was actually which they are obliged to under the criminal justice system procedures, rather than me continually having to phone and leave message etc then i would have been informed.

at the end of the day its the conduct of the police that raises concern irrespective of the crime - take for instance peter woodhams attack - what where all the ds doing then ?

Horace

I think that we need to blame the present government for tying our policemen to their desks because each time they arrest someone they have to fill in form after form.

Cycle theft is dreadful and it seems to me that it doesnt matter if you have a good lock or not, it will get pinched. Even Boris Johnson isnt immune to bike theft. I do know of one bicycle that is locked to the railing outside the police station on Clapham Road (Frank Burnie House) the poor thing is totally wheel-less and its a good advertisement to say don't park your bike here.

I have had some recent contact with the police when my neighbour in the basement flat had an extremely loud party (one of several), they came out within half an hour of making the call (they were dealing with an incident elsewhere and came straight away). They told the neighbour that there had been a noise complaint and he turned his music off. They then came to see me and when I opened the door I reeled at the stink of dope (it comes from the basement flat and the tenant has been warned on several occasions by the landlord), when I mentioned the stench of dope the policemen claimed not to be able to smell it:mad: I thought of writing to the Chief Constable to complain but then thought "what's the point? Nothing will happen".

Sometimes I think they do a tough job in difficult circumstances especially with the silly form filling - I wonder what they did in the old days before the Human Rights Act came in along with the endless forms?

Plasticman

Tozer wrote: »

Eventually - after about 8 attempts.

That would be really worrying, as 999 calls are answered by BT operators. I've never waited more than a couple of seconds to be connected!

dangeroussports

Tozer wrote: »

Eventually - after about 8 attempts.

Tozer are you sure you dialled 999 and not 666? Im not being funny but if you are calling from a mobile say, sometimes you end up pressing the wrong button, especially if you have fat fingers.



Calling the emergency services 8 times before getting through is a little startling and somehow quite unbelievable.

I dont know anything about you either, you may not be telling truth, who knows! You maybe just trolling, who knows!

But 8 times? that is really quite a story.

Tozer

dangeroussports wrote: »

Tozer are you sure you dialled 999 and not 666? Im not being funny but if you are calling from a mobile say, sometimes you end up pressing the wrong button, especially if you have fat fingers.



Calling the emergency services 8 times before getting through is a little startling and somehow quite unbelievable.

I dont know anything about you either, you may not be telling truth, who knows! You maybe just trolling, who knows!

But 8 times? that is really quite a story.

Have to DS, i thought you were just annoying previously but some (and only some!) of your posts are quite funny. :rotfl:

amandada

Tozer wrote: »

Eventually - after about 8 attempts.

I don't believe you