Are Your Local Police Force Coping Or Are We Soon

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On Sunday morning, I had to report a crime to the local police. It was before 9am. I was given a crime reference which included the number 494. When the police arrived this morning to take a statement the officer attending said that the number 494 was the number of crimes/incidents that had been reported BEFORE 9am on Sunday morning. He went onto say that the number was nearer 1400 by the end of the day. :blink:

Is it just me or does that number, for a Sunday, seem extremely high. I know that includes every incident in the Thames Valley area that requires a crime reference. Is it that more crimes are being commited or more crimes and incidents being reported or would that number seem about right to you?. I wonder if Sunday is their busiest day and which area would have the highest number of reported incidents? I also wonder what the total figure would be for the whole of the UK for the same period. :blink:

Sorry for the ramble... I just found it quite disturbing.....
 
Originally posted by Kathy@Oct 23 2006, 01:12 PM
On Sunday morning, I had to report a crime to the local police. It was before 9am. I was given a crime reference which included the number 494. When the police arrived this morning to take a statement the officer attending said that the number 494 was the number of crimes/incidents that had been reported BEFORE 9am on Sunday morning. He went onto say that the number was nearer 1400 by the end of the day. :blink:

Is it just me or does that number, for a Sunday, seem extremely high. I know that includes every incident in the Thames Valley area that requires a crime reference. Is it that more crimes are being commited or more crimes and incidents being reported or would that number seem about right to you?. I wonder if Sunday is their busiest day and which area would have the highest number of reported incidents? I also wonder what the total figure would be for the whole of the UK for the same period. :blink:

Sorry for the ramble... I just found it quite disturbing.....
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It does sound high, but if 'incidents' at chucking out time in Slough on a Saturday night/Sunday morning are included, it's probably not too far out !

Also, I wonder if that figure includes the number of speeding motorists caught on camera down the M4 ?
 
I think the police officer was probably making the point that he had been busy. Just as well my call to them didn't involve a firearm or a murder - or both. h:)

I reported my purse being stolen about 3 months ago and they wrote to me (yep, took the trouble to put it in writing) about 2 months later to tell me they hadn't found it....yet! I couldn't believe it. :blink: Surely, they were going to find a purse with £30 cash in it straight away! :)
 
As Thames Valley police force is one of the largest in Britain and covers Oxfordshire, West Berkshire (including Reading), East Berkshire (including Slough) and Buckinghamshire (including Milton Keynes) and, as cricketfan says, pubs and clubs would have been turning out in the early hours of Sunday morning, then 494 seems pretty low to me.

In Merlin's part of Cardiff he has more than that number committed outside is house before breakfast.
 
Recently, I have seen a possble hidden meaning to his obsession with "Hanging Baskets" :ph34r:
 
To someone with a speech impediment or with a very thick accent, (no offence intended), but it could sound like "hanging badkids" for instance. :blink:
 
Originally posted by BrianH@Oct 23 2006, 03:48 PM

In Merlin's part of Cardiff he has more than that number committed outside is house before breakfast.
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:o Come off it Brian..... You really mean after lunch don't you?

Today’s moan was that I was talking outside my house at 1-50 pm today to a neighbour an elderly lady who I had lent my power screwdriver too and she was returning it.....

Two youths appeared on bikes spraying an oversized Roman Candle around the street at the houses, (he never pointed them in my direction) and then trying or succeeding hiding his face and riding away at a very fast speed.....

We have that new 101 number to ring the Police now, I had a need to ring it a few weeks ago now over 30 youths vandalising a lamp post to a degree it does not now work or light....

The POLICE rang me the following day telling me to tell ALL my neighbours if the gang is seen to ring 101 ...but no one now bothers to ring the Police because of the non action here by them, they the neighbours, just let these gangs smash everything up for fear of reprisals (I don’t know how this could ever happen if you request the POLICE not to call) I have offered the POLICE my CCTV pictures too, but they don’t bother, “welcome to the BRONX”.
 
Using clear cut CCTV pictures, the police have at least managed to shame this dirty individual.

Link to Sky News

Merlin.......... When I last worked in a betting shop, we had a CCTV camera, but were told by the police after an incident (involving a well-known-to-police local couple injecting heroin in the toilets) that the pictures hadn't the resolution necessary to hold up in court.
 
Doesn't anyone on here own a paintball gun? I'd have thought that sniping the little baskets at night-time, using glow-in-the-dark paint, would not only act as a deterrent, but afford hours of harmless fun in the encroaching winter months.
 
I remember that we fitted a CCTV camera on the roof aimed at the entrance to a new depot that we opened in Openshaw, Greater Manchester.

After the depot had been opened for 48 hours thieves arrived during the night - and stole the CCTV camera!
 
I've just noticed the sub-heading on the thread. So, given my initial response you'll see that it's my very firm opion that the Thames Valley is very definitely not in meltdown. Not even the Reading area.
 
That's probably because the roads around the area are so choc-a-bloc with nose-to-tail traffic, no-one can use a getaway car any more, Brian!
 
Originally posted by BrianH@Oct 23 2006, 05:09 PM
After the depot had been opened for 48 hours thieves arrived during the night - and stole the CCTV camera!
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They were less subtle than that we when tried doing something similar on a deprived (euphamistically called 'hard to reach') council estate in the East Midlands. We mounted it very high up on a reinforced steel pillar reckoning that they couldn't reach it to steal, or spray it. What did they do?


















They shot the bloody thing off its mountings
 
Originally posted by krizon@Oct 23 2006, 05:08 PM
Doesn't anyone on here own a paintball gun? I'd have thought that sniping the little baskets at night-time, using glow-in-the-dark paint, would not only act as a deterrent, but afford hours of harmless fun in the encroaching winter months.
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That'll earn you a couple of months in chokey.
 
You're sniping them, simmo, not marching up to them for the benefit of the CCTV. You're dressed in ninja black, face blacked, and creeping around where they can't see you. If the SAS can pull off these stunts, I'm sure Merlin - who knows his terrain like the back of his gnomes - could take out a few of the little buggers' hoodies.

"Darren! What's all this on the back of your Timberland?"

"Aw, Mum, it's that mad bastid with the gnomes. He's gone completely crazy."

"You expect me to believe that, you wicked boy? That nice Mr Rickards with his hanging baskets? Come here!" (Sound of slapping, cries. Problem solved.)
 
:D I suspect that the conversation might go something a bit more like this.

"Darren! What's all this on the back of your Timberland?"

"Aw, Mum, it's that mad bastid with the gnomes. He's gone completely crazy."

"Oh has he now. OK, I'll phone the police, your dad will phone a lawyer that specialises in compensation, you phone the papers. Have you seen my works?"
 
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