Police screw up. legal help please?

mjr600

She's right you know.

x_raphael_xx

daveturney wrote: »

thats pretty sad butlers, i came here for advice not to have an arrogant big head post replys to get his daily fix of supperiority.
i also find it rich that on a site where we are encouraged to take huge companies to court for refunds of sums of money similair to my £105, i am getting so much discouragement to try and save on this.
i ask you this then mr "im not a lawyer im a financial advisor"...say i cant pay the £105, my cars a write-off, and the garage that store the car cant even salvage £105 scrap value to redeem their costs....am i now a criminal?

and for the record, im not after peoples differnce of opinion, im after ADVICE.

Surely having to spend £105 on getting your car back is better than having to pay out for a new car? I know I'd be greatful if I got mine back and thank the police for doing thier job to retrieve it.

This site encourages people to reclaim money that was unlawfully charged, i.e high bank charges, not for refunding bills.

Also if you're after peoples advice you shouldn't be so childish and insulting when you hear answers you don't like.

Labman_2

So the Police have spent in excess of £5000 on your stolen car and you are complaining about having to spend £105.....you should be ashamed of yourself.

starlight_xx

Does anyone else see a real irony with the title of this thread now

'Police screw up'

Hmmm police located stolen veh BEFORE it was reported stolen.... arrested suspect.... arranged SOC to secure a conviction..... yet this is all seen as a 'screw up'

Shame there werent more screw ups like this... the crime rate would plummet

changkra

dunstonh wrote: »

The police are on dodgy grounds with that one. A small claims court claim action against them would have good chance of success. You cannot crush someone's car like that whilst a dispute is going on. Especially when they have impounded the car illegally. Failure of a computer system to show correct data is not an excuse.

It is all still going through, apparently their computers do not update the information quick enough, so are actually using out of date info when they pull cars over to check.

ben500

I'm sorry but I'm prepared for the flaming also but:
Was the car insured at the time of the theft?
and
Where was the vehicle stolen from? ig: from your driveway or public highway?

Kaz2904

My MIL had her car stolen a few years ago and the police phoned her and said we've found it with no damage at this location, we'll get it towed and you'll have to pay a £50 release fee. Her insurers had already told her not to do this as they would recover it. By the time their recovery truck got there the car had been completely stripped and was a write off. Sad thing is that if she had let the police recover it they would have stayed with the car until the tow truck arrived. She wished she never been told by the insurers to go with them and would have gladlypaid to get the car recovered!

CopperPlate_2

Kaz2904 wrote: »

My MIL had her car stolen a few years ago and the police phoned her and said we've found it with no damage at this location, we'll get it towed and you'll have to pay a £50 release fee. Her insurers had already told her not to do this as they would recover it. By the time their recovery truck got there the car had been completely stripped and was a write off. Sad thing is that if she had let the police recover it they would have stayed with the car until the tow truck arrived. She wished she never been told by the insurers to go with them and would have gladlypaid to get the car recovered!

Bad luck! But I think there is a moral in the tale there.

daveturney

your car was stripped, in the time it took for your insurance to pick it up? do you live in Iraq?

update:

spoke to an office, he says they took the car in for fingerprinting under the assumption that it had been stolen and a neighbour told them it was not the man who got out of its car.
Had we reported it stolen and the car was outside our house and they then came to pick it up to fingerprint it, they would of coverd the cost of £105 without argument, he said "of the record, i think this is a grey area, he wouldnt like to say who should incur the cost".

to the negative ppl here, when i do get my £105 back, and it does look like the poilce "screwed up", will you still be on your high horse preaching how my £105 refund will crumble society, or will you give me a respectfull "welldone", because when i do get the money back, it will only be because it was done legally and within the law?

Dumbledore55

daveturney wrote: »

your car was stripped, in the time it took for your insurance to pick it up? do you live in Iraq?

update:

spoke to an office, he says they took the car in for fingerprinting under the assumption that it had been stolen and a neighbour told them it was not the man who got out of its car.
Had we reported it stolen and the car was outside our house and they then came to pick it up to fingerprint it, they would of coverd the cost of £105 without argument, he said "of the record, i think this is a grey area, he wouldnt like to say who should incur the cost".

to the negative ppl here, when i do get my £105 back, and it does look like the poilce "screwed up", will you still be on your high horse preaching how my £105 refund will crumble society, or will you give me a respectfull "welldone", because when i do get the money back, it will only be because it was done legally and within the law?

No, I'll still think you're ungrateful for what the police have done to get your car back, catch the offender and try and stop him doing it to even more people.