Police response to missing child....

uktim29

It would depend of what the definition of "on duty" is for a police officer then. If your suggesting it means act as if the Police Station is open then why do they close them?

fwhorn

uktim29 wrote: »

It would depend of what the definition of "on duty" is for a police officer then. If your suggesting it means act as if the Police Station is open then why do they close them?

Thats one of the problems we have now, I dont know where you live but in Manchester a lot of the Police stations are never open but officers are based there. The point of this is to ring in, which is where this post started. I live near one that is about 300 metres away, and there are police in there on duty whether they are doing their reports, having a cup of tea or coming or going off duty. If the OP had been saying that a dog was missing, then I would of agreed that ringing in was fine, but we are talking about a lady in visible distress reporting that her child was missing. I agree with your points on shop workers have a set time and you do get cranks asking if you are still open, but being a Police officer isnt has easy as On OFF. You would be a bit miffed if you was reporting that your house was being robbed at that very momment to be told face to face " sorry cant help wife's got a lasagne in the oven and I clock off in 2 mins, but if you can find a phonebox that works and you have change then you can report it if you want"

Stephen_Leak

I'm going to play devil's advocate here.

We pay the policeman +2%, welch on the deal about backdating it and then and expect 101% from him?

charmed-imsure

I heard an alarm go off a few months ago and we wondered if it was our car alarm so looked out the window. It wasn't. But the alarm was going on for ages. I said to my partner, in complete jest, it's probably someone getting burgled. Well, half an hour later I went upstairs and saw a police van a few doors down from us. We then got a knock on the door and it was the police saying our neighbour 2 doors down had just been burgled and did we hear anything. We didn't, only an alarm.
Anyway, a month or so after, we were all very nervy around here and I heard an alarm at around 12.30am so we phoned the police and said we can hear a house alarm going off and there was a burglary not long ago. Can they send a patrol round to check it. We were asked what house number the alarm was going off at and we said we don't know the actual house number but I'd say it's within 10 houses right of where we are and gave our house number. They said they are unable to do anything unless we can walk down the road and check what house number it was!!! OK, 12.30am, pubs kicked out, we go snouting around where a house alarm is going off and get stabbed??? No thanks! For being a good samaritan you get zero result.

I heard my neighbour being physically beaten last yr, it was awful, I called the police annonymously and somebody got arrested, whether it was her son or husband I don't know.

I'm not a nosey person or anything but these walls are thin, we live in a rapidly downhill sliding area and yet when something happens, too many people are afraid to call the police because either:
a: They won't do anything about it anyway, or
b: If you do try to do anything annonymously then you always fear some kind of comeback.

Personally, me in those two shoes would rather have nosey neighbours who are concerned than people around who don't give a twollop! But I'd like a police force that will respond when they know matter of factly how awful the area you're in is.

Bamber19

fwhorn wrote: »

As for all your closed shop theories, people queue up outside closed shops,supermarkets etc. because they could be just opening.

The time might be a clue in this situation. A queue outside a shop at 5 to 8 in the morning may be people waiting because the shop is jsut opening but a queue outside a shop with its shutters down at 9pm is a queue of idiots who don't udnerstand the concept of shops closing and services ceasing.

Bamber19

pulliptears wrote: »

Wow, completely uncalled for. You dont have kids either I take it?

She has a point though, if officers and cars were scrambled to every child that went missing within an hour or two when would the Police ever find the time to pull over drivers going at 33 in a 30 or move along 10 yr old kids playing football?

Happychappy

33 in a 30 c'mon dont you know the latest pub chavs get done at 31 in a 30 coz the rozzers are on commission, give it a break.

Bamber19

My tongue was stationed directly in my cheek.