some adice please regarding the police.

Azari

This makes no sense whatsoever.

The only way the police will become involved is if you obtained the money dishonestly - and even then it's unlikely that uniformed officers would be involved unless you actually physically removed it from somewhere or it was a very large amount or a repeated fraud.

And if the alleged offence was serious enough to send out police officers they would certainly not just tell you to pay the money back.

If what you are saying is true, the only explanation I can think of is that the officer who called on you was acting privately - something that it would be beyond stupid for him to do in those circumstances.

WTFH

davehughes182 wrote: »

I call Shenanigans

I called Shenanigans and have order a pint of Guinness. What's yours?

Ronaldo_Mconaldo

We've all forgotten to ask the most important question before we call bullpoop on this little fairytale: what country is the OP in? If it's some kind of Kafka loving, ex-communist type country then perhaps this story is true. If they are trying to say that the police threatened to throw them in the cells in the UK then I call cobblers on this. I don't think the UK police give a toss about anything any more.

Gordon_Hose

My first thought was, is the Police Officer a friend of someone who works at this company.

preable

Do you like subway by any chance

Faith177

preable wrote: »

Do you like subway by any chance

Or shop in the Co-Op :rotfl:

paddyrg

Seeing as you've not done anything arrestable, it would be worth getting the badge number of the copper involved and calling the force to let them know what's going on -

Or even calling them to say that you believe someone is impersonating a police officer and threatening to arrest you in front of colleagues for a private, civil alleged debt which has not even been to court. They don't like people impersonating police officers, so it should stir things up a little.

maninthestreet

It clearly is a civil matter - money was mistakenly transferred by your ex-employer into your bank account. In order to be guily of theft, the police would have to prove you had an intent to deprive your ex-employer of this money.

hollydays

tippy1toppy wrote: »

Hi there,

new to the forum but hear its a great place to get advice as some of you are all legal experts by the sound of it.

Well the story.

Around 1.5 years ago I was working on behalf of an agency, and did do for arround 6 months and everything was fine. I then managed to get myself a new full time job so in the process I moved house, new bank account had a child and the rest of it.

Rewind about 6 months, i get a policeman knocking at my door regarding that i has "stolen" some money, and they could arrest me but they wont (as he said). The officer explained that the company could persue with the Police as i have taken money which is not mine.

Now I went back over my statments and checked to see if this is true, nothing on the stament. I tell the officers no payments, he pulled his notepad and told me it was to a Lloyds account, i checked this was true! the company had paid me £200 sometime last year. I asked them why they are coming after me now for it, i told them that i did not have it. They told me go to the bank and get it. Now the problem is that this bank account i left with a 2p overdraft which has resulted in charges and basically its gone.

Now they told me to contact the company and make a payment plan with the, i have to pay it back. So 2 weeks later wrote a letter to the company and told them i would arrange a payment plan.

6 months later the police arrive at work telling me they are going to arrest me if i dont hand myself in this Friday, they will arrest me. I am going to be given a criminal record and put into a cell on Friday for a few hours.

Could somone please help me with some advice.

Kind Regards.

The criminal record, would it be by Rene and Renata?
I'd confess, and that is torture against your ' elf and safety rights, regulation6, subsection 1a.

Nick_C

tippy1toppy wrote: »

6 months later the police arrive at work telling me they are going to arrest me if i dont hand myself in this Friday, they will arrest me. I am going to be given a criminal record and put into a cell on Friday for a few hours.

Could somone please help me with some advice.

Kind Regards.

Sounds like the Police are saying they want to formally interview you (under caution) at the Police Station, and if you don't turn up voluntarily they will arrest you. If that's the case, you should make an appointment for an interview. You should also ask them to arrange for you to be legally represented. They have grounds to arrest you if they have reason to suspect you of stealing. You are lucky that they have given you the option to attend voluntarily and avoid arrest.

If you were arrested, you would not have a criminal record. That would only happen if you were subsequently prosecuted and found guity, or accepted a caution. However, being formally arrested is very unpleasant and best avoided.