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Access to police report?
I wanted to know if anyone is clear about my rights (if any) to see the police report about an incident we were indirectly involved in.
Short Version: Do I have the right to see the actual police report about an incident we were a victim of (property damage as a result of the incident).
Long Version: Basically, a road at the back of our house is commonly used as a racetrack by many people (it has a long sweeping bend that many seem to find irresistable to test) and the other day the inevitable happened.
My wife came back from creche with our 2 year old (who thank god wasn't in the garden at the time) to find our back gate (full size) more or less destroyed, as was the council owned fence outside it.
After much calling around we finally got the information from the police there had been someone on a motorbike left the road (yeah thanks for putting a note through the door there, nice work Lewes police) and crashed into our gate/back garden. This made the worse by the fact that eariler that day there had apparently been another accident, involving a car and bike which destroyed said council fence from someone in a car leaving the road (no doubt the two incidents are related, almost certainly the same two pr***s 'racing' each other) and this was apparently not reported to police.
Anyway, I'm obviously now on the case for getting some traffic calming put in, and would like to see the police report (as I think I should be able to, being a 'victim' of the incident) to see if they came to the conclusion that people were speeding.
Getting hold of the officer attending the incident isn't easy, as she seems to know nothing anyway (I wont even go into that). The police email correspondance I have had just keeps pointing me to applying under the data protection act for getting 'information they hold about me' which is not necessarily what I want. It also winds me up that I
Short Version: Do I have the right to see the actual police report about an incident we were a victim of (property damage as a result of the incident).
Long Version: Basically, a road at the back of our house is commonly used as a racetrack by many people (it has a long sweeping bend that many seem to find irresistable to test) and the other day the inevitable happened.
My wife came back from creche with our 2 year old (who thank god wasn't in the garden at the time) to find our back gate (full size) more or less destroyed, as was the council owned fence outside it.
After much calling around we finally got the information from the police there had been someone on a motorbike left the road (yeah thanks for putting a note through the door there, nice work Lewes police) and crashed into our gate/back garden. This made the worse by the fact that eariler that day there had apparently been another accident, involving a car and bike which destroyed said council fence from someone in a car leaving the road (no doubt the two incidents are related, almost certainly the same two pr***s 'racing' each other) and this was apparently not reported to police.
Anyway, I'm obviously now on the case for getting some traffic calming put in, and would like to see the police report (as I think I should be able to, being a 'victim' of the incident) to see if they came to the conclusion that people were speeding.
Getting hold of the officer attending the incident isn't easy, as she seems to know nothing anyway (I wont even go into that). The police email correspondance I have had just keeps pointing me to applying under the data protection act for getting 'information they hold about me' which is not necessarily what I want. It also winds me up that I
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