Police Lost Property craziness....please help!!!

Daytona_nev

warehouse wrote: »

The opposite can happen too!

My parents found a wallet with £200 in cash outside their front gate. This was just before Christmas so obviously someones spending money for presents. As there were no contact details inside the wallet they took it straight to the Police station, filled in all the forms which included their names, address and phone number.

Six/seven weeks later they went back and asked what had happened. The Police told them that the wallet had been claimed the same day. The people who had lost it didn't even make the slightest effort to say thanks to my parents, just took it and carried on.

Needless to say my parents will not be taking any further wallets to the Police!

So your parents only took it back for the thanks or in the vain hope no-one will claim it and the moeny may end up theirs?

So altruism and doing the right thing is dead after all.

MrC_Beds

Daytona_nev wrote: »

So your parents only took it back for the thanks or in the vain hope no-one will claim it and the moeny may end up theirs?

So altruism and doing the right thing is dead after all.

I don't see it that way. The OP's parents did the right thing in the first place, by taking the wallet to the Police station - which is more than a lot of people would have done. If they were that bothered about getting the money, then they wouldnt have handed it in! They should be congratulated for their honesty. Why shouldn't they expect some gratitude?!

AdrianW2

geordie_joe wrote: »

Are you serious? You phone 999 and the person on the other end thinks "Oh, a sudden death, lets see if we have any trainees that need to attend one".

Nope. First off the 999 call taker doesn't assign units. What you see on The Bill is fiction.

A really switched on radio operator might offer the job to a tutor/trainee unit, or the response sergeant will ask for one because his team are all busy, but the most likely scenario is the tutor/trainee will monitor the radio and volunteer.

RadoJo

MrC_Beds wrote: »

I don't see it that way. The OP's parents did the right thing in the first place, by taking the wallet to the Police station - which is more than a lot of people would have done. If they were that bothered about getting the money, then they wouldnt have handed it in! They should be congratulated for their honesty. Why shouldn't they expect some gratitude?!

Because the right thing is the right thing regardless of whether you get thanked or not. I can understand the posters' parents thinking 'Harumph, charming' when they received no thanks, but I cannot understand the logic of then deciding that next time they find something they will punish an unrelated stranger by keeping whatever they find. And as has been pointed out, maybe there was a miscommunication and the owners of the wallet were very grateful but it wasn't passed on - either way, it seeems awful to use the perceived rudeness of one person as an excuse to enact what I would see as a worse lowering of standards onto someone else.

geordie_joe

AdrianW2 wrote: »

Nope. First off the 999 call taker doesn't assign units. What you see on The Bill is fiction.

I don't watch the bill, and if I did I would know it was fiction as it is a tv programme with actors!

AdrianW2 wrote: »

A really switched on radio operator might offer the job to a tutor/trainee unit, or the response sergeant will ask for one because his team are all busy, but the most likely scenario is the tutor/trainee will monitor the radio and volunteer.

So, when you dial 999 you have to hope someone volunteers to come out? I suppose you'd also have to hope that the one who volunteers isn't across the other side of the county.

It might happen like that where you live, but not round here.

MrC_Beds

RadoJo wrote: »

Because the right thing is the right thing regardless of whether you get thanked or not. I can understand the posters' parents thinking 'Harumph, charming' when they received no thanks, but I cannot understand the logic of then deciding that next time they find something they will punish an unrelated stranger by keeping whatever they find. And as has been pointed out, maybe there was a miscommunication and the owners of the wallet were very grateful but it wasn't passed on - either way, it seeems awful to use the perceived rudeness of one person as an excuse to enact what I would see as a worse lowering of standards onto someone else.

I have a full appreciation of what the "right thing" is. I thought it was the right thing that they handed the wallet over in the first place - many wouldn't.

You don't know the OP or his parents and you don't know what they will do if they find a wallet in the future.

I find gratuitous "holier than thou" rent-a-posts on internet forums a tad lame!

geordie_joe

Takoda wrote: »

It is STILL none of your business. Which is exactly what the Police told you.

Here is a quote from the police

Whilst there is no legal requirement to report a crime, there is a moral duty on everyone of us to report to the police any crime or anything we suspect may be a crime.

So the police tell you that you have a moral duty to report anything we suspect may be a crime. Surely that makes it your business.

Would have been different if a doctor or ambulance driver nicked the wallet.

tandraig

ChrisCobra wrote: »

Tandraig are you getting battered on here too , i thought you would have learned after the pc world fiasco

didnt you learn after thread one? i didnt have to click a button - the forum team did it all!

glad you reminded me of your name - had forgotten you!

Takoda

tandraig wrote: »

oh for gods sake - was elderly gentleman found dead - checked with mum today - they phoned 999 explained situation - plods got there before ambulance - mum and friend thought was bit strange the cop put wallet in HIS pocket but reasoned was for safekeeping ( said she was naive) on talking to deceased son at funeral he mentioned his dads wallet not found..... they knew where it had gone! son was furious - got mum and friend to make a statement ............upshot - police denied all knowledge. no further action taken!

Still absolutely nothing to do with YOU! No matter how many times you post the same info.

I have this mental picture of Norris Cole off Coronation Street when I read your posts.

tandraig

ahhhhhh takoda didnt remember you either!!! er its not me posting same info - its all you halfwits quoting it!