Interpol Or Interflora

[chrisgel]

Yes, I know it's the Daily Mail but what the actual hell is going on in this country.
You couldn't make it up (or could you)?
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2301784/Police-resort-giving-flowers-victims-burglaries-muggings-soften-blow-unlikely-solve-crimes.html

[naomi24]

//'Giving someone flowers helps soften the blow... //

I speak from experience when I say .... no .... it doesn't!

Just do the bloody job!

[ummmm]

I second that!

[ChillDoubt]

The Met unfortunately have diverted resources elsewhere. They've got plenty working on stitching up the former Chief Whip (one media source reckons up to 9 may be involved) so are a bit thin on the ground at the moment.

Maybe they'll become ever more resourceful and recycle flowers left at accidents scenes/blackspots.

[anotheoldgit]

No need to make excuses for using a Daily Mail story, while at the same time making use of it.

"Don't shoot the messenger'

[chrisgel]

I thought that maybe the clocks had gone forward 24 hours and nobody had told me.

[VHG]

My local police force sent round a newsletter saying "crime had dropped in the area - 300 less people in this area were the victim of crime".

But the next week in our local paper, one man who had been burgled asked the police for a "crime number" and they refused to give him one.

That is one way to reduce the crime numbers, refuse to acknowledge them.

Crime is not really dropping, people are just not bothering to report them as they know nothing will get done about it.

[ummmm]

Really?

[naomi24]

//one man who had been burgled asked the police for a "crime number" and they refused to give him one.//

Really? Did he not pursue that?

[VHG]

Just found the article in the local paper - it was the Solihull News from Friday March 15th.

In fact it was not a burglary but credit card theft were a credit card was used to draw money from a hole in the wall machine.

When she was asked by the credit card company to report it to the police and get a crime number the police said the banks deals with it and would not give her a crime number.

[chrisgel]

AOG --- The apologetic tone of my question was because I thought I would be stealing your thunder. Surprised you hadn't already posted it. Lol
Happy Easter.

[anotheoldgit]

chrisgel

/// Lol
Happy Easter. ///

And the very same to you and yours.

[Gromit]

// AOG ....Surprised you hadn't already posted it. //

There is not race angle to frame the story.

[ChillDoubt]

Maybe this is why they're reluctant to investigate burglaries......

http://m.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-norfolk-21987343

Laughable. Hopefully the victim will counter sue the Police for failing to attend an incident and act in an efficient manner that one might expect from a public servant.

[New Judge]

Yes VHG is quite right about the credit card problem.

The police have said they will no longer investigate credit card fraud but leave it to the banks. That's fair enough. (Though I don't agree with it. I understood it was the first duty of the police to prevent and detect crime).

The difficulty arises when the card has been taken as a result of theft or robbery. Then, of course, the police should investigate the theft or the robbery because that crime is no different where a credit card is taken to an incident where cash is take. It is not fraud until it is used. But, of course, the boys in blue see it otherwise.

[anotheoldgit]

Gromit

Surprised you didn't though Gromit, considering the anti-police angle in which you could have framed it.

[Gromit]

I am not anti Police. I am anti criminal behaviour by the Police. I believe the police should be solving crimes, not committing them.

[Orderlimit]

"Crime is not really dropping, people are just not bothering to report them as they know nothing will get done about it".

Or more seriously, police manipulating crime stats and cooking the books.