If you were carjacked at gunpoint outside your own home.
 

What would you expect the police to do?-

Well if it was at gun point I think they'd probably take it pretty seriously as gun crimes are pretty rare here

was it them what did it?

You would think that wouldn't you..maybe check the areas cctv...try and trace the cars tracker?


No...lets file it as unsolved.

My boss at work was car jacked (at knife point not gun point) a few years ago. There was a spate of them happening at the time in Salford and the police turned up, took the details and that was pretty much all she heard about it. Her car had a tracker and it was found dumped not long after and she had to go and collect it. She was pretty shaken up as it happened outside her house and they took her keys which had her house keys etc so she was really nervous for a long time (luckily she was in the processing of buying a new house so once she moved she felt better)

Yeah I would definitely think that.

has something like that happened to you and they didn't even investigate it?

Depends where your home is tbh. If it's in a quiet village what are the police expected to do? If its in an area with a lot of gun crime, expect an armed response unit.

I'd expect them to do what Parmnion suggested, looked at CCTV footage and tried to find the gunman/woman

Well my work was broken into on sunday night and the thieves got away with 30 grands worth...we called the police but was told case closed because someone had touched the door they came through...cctv in operatìon but still not interested.....so i watched last nights panorama special about the failing police forces last night which featured an old gadgie telling this story.

There are a lot of rules about cctv footage, about what can and what can't be used, and again its very dependent on location.

The public shouldnt be expected to go and ask waitros for cctv footage themselves though, which is happening...that surely is a police job.

if no-one was hurt, the default result in a robbery is to get a crime number and use that to claim insurance. Robberies don't tend to get investigated these days

Serious crime? In Manchester?

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Well thats pretty ****ty for us law abiding citizens...

Time to adorn a clean pair of tights and get out there i think!!

They wouldn't be allowed to hand over cctv to members of the public though

I know the police are stretched but I'm sceptical that a robbery wouldn't be investigated, the perpetrators of armed carjackings are generally going to be quite serious criminals who would be quite high on the police radar

Yeah I'm very surprised by that as well especially where guns are involved

One of my back windows has been held up with black Ducktape for over 6 months.

No one is carjacking me :joker:.

So why do the police tell people to do that?

You can watch the blokes interview on catch up...