Neighbour damaged my gate....I have CCTV evidence!

Davesnave

Wassa123 wrote: »

If the OP has the CCTV footage of the "crime" then that's good enough to get a PCSO around. Open and closed case.

There's no 'case,' unless someone who has the authority decides there is.

At best, the PCSO will visit the neighbour and ask for an explanation. This is just getting the police to do something that the OP could do herself.

I have reported 3 'incidents' in the past 10 years using 101. None of them required a follow-up or visit, because they were isolated events which didn't develop further. This could be similar, but if not, the footage is there and the event is logged.

AndyMc.....

Wassa123 wrote: »

If the OP has the CCTV footage of the "crime" then that's good enough to get a PCSO around. Open and closed case. Whether the OP wants to talk to the neighbour instead is the issue.

Police will prioritise incidents they get so theres no harm in reporting it. I once called the police to report kids on motorbikes/scooters riding on the pavement (without helmets). "Are you worried about their safety" they asked. "No I don't care about that, I'm worried about them hitting my parked car". I was actually surprised that on a Friday night, this was their most important priority so they sent someone straight round.

It doesn’t work like that, but you obviously think it’s a crime not worth bothering about. Maybe your attitude would change if you ever became the victim.

Debbie_Savard

Ask the vicar to excommunicate her

Jackmydad

On a practical note, assuming that she shut the gate because it was open, and, in her mind at least, "In her way", what about putting a closing spring on it?
I'd also make sure that the gate itself, hinges, catches and stops if any are "up to the job"

Doozergirl

AndyMc..... wrote: »

It doesn!!!8217;t work like that, but you obviously think it!!!8217;s a crime not worth bothering about. Maybe your attitude would change if you ever became the victim.

My husband's car was broken into a few weeks ago. They stole my keys from it. I had to change the locks on both our house and my car. That's a proper and worrying crime. Stuff happens; I dealt with with it by being pragmatic. I fixed what I could fix and I remembered that worse really could happen. As I said earlier, we also caught someone else's car being robbed this weekend and reported it.

The following week someone knocked my husband's wing mirror off. They were moving very slowly and they did not stop as it started cracking and just pushed it off entirely. They knew what they were doing. We have that on CCTV. We haven't actually done anything yet but at the moment we are waiting to speak to that person if we see them again. If we don't, we'll report it but don't expect the police to do anything.

If someone bent my gate, I think I'd wonder what was wrong with the gate, not the person who closed it, in order for it to do that.

Victim is a mentality.

AndyMc.....

Doozergirl wrote: »

My husband's car was broken into a few weeks ago. They stole my keys from it. I had to change the locks on both our house and my car. That's a proper and worrying crime. Stuff happens; I dealt with with it by being pragmatic. I fixed what I could fix and I remembered that worse really could happen. As I said earlier, we also caught someone else's car being robbed this weekend and reported it.

The following week someone knocked my husband's wing mirror off. They were moving very slowly and they did not stop as it started cracking and just pushed it off entirely. They knew what they were doing. We have that on CCTV. We haven't actually done anything yet but at the moment we are waiting to speak to that person if we see them again. If we don't, we'll report it but don't expect the police to do anything.

If someone bent my gate, I think I'd wonder what was wrong with the gate, not the person who closed it, in order for it to do that.

Victim is a mentality.

So why should the police be concerned about your husbands car and not the OPs gate?

Doozergirl

AndyMc..... wrote: »

So why should the police be concerned about your husbands car and not the OPs gate?

They're not! That's the point. You report it because you have to for insurance' sake. But if they were bothered it would be because someone purposefully and wilfully broke into a £25k car to steal its contents and probably does it over and over again for a "living". My car and the entire contents of my house were compromised and they cost a great deal more than a gate hinge. The wing mirror almost certainly does too and the reason we haven't reported it yet is because we'll gain absolutely nothing and it's a waste of time.

Perhaps Davesnave's £3.50s would be able to go towards the police dealing with repeat car criminals if people weren't phoning them about gate hinges that may or may not have been broken on purpose and may or may not have happened had someone else done the same.

You're trolling this thread.

AndyMc.....

Doozergirl wrote: »

They're not! That's the point. You report it because you have to for insurance' sake. But if they were bothered it would be because someone purposefully and wilfully broke into a £25k car to steal its contents and probably does it over and over again for a "living". My car and the entire contents of my house were compromised and they cost a great deal more than a gate hinge. The wing mirror almost certainly does too and the reason we haven't reported it yet is because we'll gain absolutely nothing and it's a waste of time.

Perhaps Davesnave's £3.50s would be able to go towards the police dealing with repeat car criminals if people weren't phoning them about gate hinges that may or may not have been broken on purpose and may or may not have happened had someone else done the same.

You're trolling this thread.

No, I’m simply stating facts you don’t agree with.

Doozergirl

AndyMc..... wrote: »

No, I’m simply stating facts you don’t agree with.

No. You're asking stupid questions. I didn't say the police were concerned at all. That's the entire point. They don't care. Even the OP wasn't phoning the police.

AndyMc.....

Doozergirl wrote: »

No. You're asking stupid questions. I didn't say the police were concerned at all. That's the entire point. They don't care. Even the OP wasn't phoning the police.

Whether the police care or not doesn’t change police procedure.