How to Report Relative to Police for Drink Driving

inkie

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Originally Posted by bobsa1
I've got same problem with a friend who drinks all evening every evening and then drives hers and somebody elses kids to school every day.

Unfortunately she thinks her drinking is funny & normal and even said to me "you won't remember x as you were drunk (I seldom drink more than one glass of wine and never drink when driving, which I usually am)"

She is also a Doctor so in my view should know better.

And presumably is then going to practice.....they need reporting to the GMC.

DrFluffy

albalad wrote:

Sorry drfluffy i disagree with you , why wait , what if in the intervening time , the worst was to happen ........ how would you feel , knowing that you could maybe have prevented it !
even if the police do not catch them with "blood full of alcohol" maybe just being pulled over for suspected drinnk driving would be enough for them to change their outlook

Because the police generally do not have the resourses to act on a 'might be' and therefore don't...

An alcoholic will not suddenly reform...

MegS

We had this problem with my f-i-l, unfortunately we lived in Portsmouth and he was in the north-east. We rang the Police who said unless we knew exactly when he would be driving they couldn't do much as they couldn't sit outside the pub all lunchtime waiting for him (f-i-l is an ex-copper and one of hs mates tipped him off but if didn't stop him). They also suggested we saw his doctor and asked him to recommend that he be referred for a medical to the DVLA. We duly made an appointment, travelled up and the doctor, although agreeing f-i-l had a long-standing alcohol problem and knew he drinked and drive, he wouldn't do anything about it because 'its a very drastic step'!!! Our parting shot was when someone was killed we would report him to the medical council. Luckily a couple of weeks later f-i-l crashed his car - into a stationary police car of all things - he was arrested and taken home but was then caught later in the night when he went and picked his car up. He was lucky to avoid jail apparently because in the meantime his liver packed up and so he was banned for 3 years. I could never understand why he drove under the influence as he had been to so many accidents caused by the same thing when he was a policeman. Incidentally he amazingly survied the liver packing in and although he never drank whiskey again (he was drinking a litre a day plus about 12 pints beer) he still drinks about 15 pints a day. Unfortunately with addicts unless they want to get help themselves there is nothing you can do.

albalad

DrFluffy wrote:

Because the police generally do not have the resourses to act on a 'might be' and therefore don't...

An alcoholic will not suddenly reform...

drfluffy , i know that the police will act immediately if you phone them with a suspected dd ...........if they are on the road at the time

DrFluffy

albalad wrote:

drfluffy , i know that the police will act immediately if you phone them with a suspected dd ...........if they are on the road at the time

That was my point...

I was arguing against the tone of your post which seemed to say they will just turn up and check someone on a 'well I know so and so drive under the limit' whim... They have to actually be on the road... And preferably drunk, else you will be marked as a time waster for reporting and they will be less inclinded to stop him again...

(I held a liquor licence in a past life, and have shopped many, many people for drink driving...)

ronnie_2

wolfehouse wrote:

you can report crimes annonymously at crimestoppers:
0800 555 111

If you call them giving them as much information as possible, they prefer if you can give them the make, model and if possible the registration number. makes it easier for a patrol car to spot the offender and pull them over:j

Also if they know the persons destination sometimes they will lie in wait for there return home:T

I have used this service a couple of times to great effect

DRINK DRIVERS KILL:mad:

alison74

That was my point...

They have to actually be on the road... And preferably drunk, else you will be marked as a time waster for reporting and they will be less inclinded to stop him again...



You would NOT be marked as a time waster and the police would not be less inclined to stop a person in the future.

Phone crimestoppers with the car registration, the areas they normally drive drive in and times etc. This info will be passed onto the relevant force, but as other posters have mentioned, a police officer will not be assigned to watch out for him, but the info you give will be enough to create a marker on the Police National Computer (PNC)

Should the person that drive in an area of automatic number plate recogniton, the police are alerted that way and would act on it.

OR

If you know when the person is leaving a certain address (your other relatives) and is probably under the influence, that's when to telephone the police, giving the last location you knew them to be at, type of car and registration etc

As long as resources allow in that there are no other major incidents, a police car in the area will definately try to follow it up when the call comes in

It is one of the main crimes that cops hate - the more drunk drivers taken off the road the better. Not because they might injure themselves, but because they invariably crash into someone or something else and hurt innocent people.

DrFluffy

There's only so many times the police will stop a driver for a report of DUI that proves negative, before they down grade the risk they pose...

All the driver has to do is claim malace on the part of the reporter...

Ms_Chocaholic

ronnie wrote:

If you call them giving them as much information as possible, they prefer if you can give them the make, model and if possible the registration number. makes it easier for a patrol car to spot the offender and pull them over:j

Also if they know the persons destination sometimes they will lie in wait for there return home:T

I have used this service a couple of times to great effect

DRINK DRIVERS KILL:mad:

Tried ringing Crimestoppers earlier today. I had the person's full name, their address, the address they are currently staying at but unfortunately I'm not sure of the details of their car. There is about three cars parked outside the address they are currently staying at (on a main road) and I suggested that I give them each of the registration numbers and the Police could check each and then they would know which car was his and which to stop. I could also give them a time (within about 20 minutes) when he is due to set off from friend's house tomorrow to return home (to travel on a 30 minute journey).

Crimestoppers - not interested unless I could give them registration number.