[parmnion]

I am interested in thier response.

I find it fascinating that you can call the police if you have been burgled and it takes them like a day or 2 to respond.

Yet if someone needing 20 quid from a bank to feed thier kids turns frustrated and angry outside the bank the police are there in minutes.

[Smithy]

I used Siri to call them in September and they got there pretty quickly

[parmnion]

Originally Posted by Smithy

I used Siri to call them in September and they got there pretty quickly

Yes, very funny.

But this is serious debate.

[Smithy]

I’m being serious???

[parmnion]

Originally Posted by Smithy

I’m being serious???

Sorry,

I thought siri was like ask google and you were just sitting like a starship enterprise captain in your house demand sting to play.



What happened when you did? Apart from them getting there pretty quickly.

[Redway]

https://www.thisisbigbrother.com/for...407&highlight=

.

[parmnion]

Originally Posted by Redway

https://www.thisisbigbrother.com/for...407&highlight=

.

This is not a poll..

This is a thread designed to generate discussion about experiences with the police...

But it is worthy of merging..

[Josy]

Yes for a serious stabbing assault on one person and an assault with a shovel on another resulting in a horrific head wound.

The place was crawling with police, ambulances and CID within about 10 minutes of me phoning

[parmnion]

Originally Posted by Josy

Yes for a serious stabbing assault on one person and an assault with a shovel on another resulting in a horrific head wound.

The place was crawling with police, ambulances and CID within about 10 minutes of me phoning

That is what you would like to see happen...safety first.

[hijaxers]

Yes i've called them on many occasions over the years , to report various things from serious to kids robbing cars. I've not called them for few years but seems everyone that does these days are very rarely satisfied with the response and they don't deal with information sent in either.

[bitontheslide]

it very much depends on the incident, if it's life threatening they are usually there very quickly. Something like a burglary and they may not even visit at all and purely provide you with a crime number so that you can claim insurance

[parmnion]

Originally Posted by bitontheslide

it very much depends on the incident, if it's life threatening they are usually there very quickly. Something like a burglary and they may not even visit at all and purely provide you with a crime number so that you can claim insurance

See that's for enough if it is life threatening..

Bit it also opens it up to large corporations and thier staff being unable to handle a drunk..

Take your normal bookie shop, they may put up with more than most before calling the police, but women in Costa coffee will phone them if a customer becomes slightly irrational. The police will fly with blues and twos to this, and all they are met with is a hopeless drunk..a drunk that companies employed security should be dealing with, instead of us forking out our taxes to protect thier shops.

[Toy Soldier]

Originally Posted by parmnion

Take your normal bookie shop, they may put up with more than most before calling the police,

You learn very quickly that it’s not worth the paperwork... usually if you pick up the phone and pretend to dial that’s enough. Only really worth calling if someone is getting actively violent (with people not objects). Or for a robbery of course but thankfully in 10 years, I never had a robbery attempt. Shop was too central. It’s the little ones on quiet streets that get robbed.

[Marsh.]

Originally Posted by parmnion

but women in Costa coffee will phone them if a customer becomes slightly irrational. The police will fly with blues and twos to this, and all they are met with is a hopeless drunk..a drunk that companies employed security should be dealing with, instead of us forking out our taxes to protect thier shops.

Invention. With a dash of misogyny.

[parmnion]

Originally Posted by Marsh.

Invention. With a dash of misogyny.

Or women in halifax banks.

Women who will phone the police on a frustrated man trying to get 20 quid to feed his kids.

[parmnion]

Originally Posted by Marsh.

Invention. With a dash of misogyny.

https://youtu.be/NP82oeI4_vQ

[Marsh.]

Originally Posted by parmnion

Or women in halifax banks.

Women who will phone the police on a frustrated man trying to get 20 quid to feed his kids.

Misogyny.

[arista]

Originally Posted by parmnion

This is not a poll..

This is a thread designed to generate discussion about experiences with the police...

But it is worthy of merging..

On that thread
Smithy tells the Reason Why

[parmnion]

Originally Posted by Marsh.

Misogyny.

https://youtu.be/NP82oeI4_vQ

Or an actual event.

[Smithy]

Originally Posted by parmnion

Sorry,

I thought siri was like ask google and you were just sitting like a starship enterprise captain in your house demand sting to play.



What happened when you did? Apart from them getting there pretty quickly.

No, someone took my phone off of me so the only way I could use it was by screaming hey Siri call the police

When they turned up they diffused the situation and helped me leave

[bitontheslide]

Originally Posted by Smithy

No, someone took my phone off of me so the only way I could use it was by screaming hey Siri call the police

When they turned up they diffused the situation and helped me leave

good excuse to get an apple watch

[Cherie]

No have never called the police

[Vicky.]

A few times when younger, when my mothers partner at the time was beating her up. No help at all. Her word against his, despite clear injuries yadayadayada. The police only ever actually arrested him when he hit a male friend of my mothers who was staying there to try and make her feel safer after a very bad attack. I was also threatened with arrest the one time she had rang and he was getting worse and worse so I ended up putting a knife to his throat to basically..stop him killing her.

So I don't tend to think too highly of them really. It was enough times to not be written off as 'just a bad day'. And how **** hot they were once a bloke was hurt was interesting too.

They refused to even take a look when a friends car was nicked. Said just claim on the insurance. Mother in law was scammed, and was told to report to 'actionfraud' which as it turns out, is mainly just for statistics keeping rather than investigation (which makes it pointless to direct victims to to me really). Father in laws work vans have been broken into numerous times, and despite the area being heavily camera'd..funnily enough at the exact moment it happens, the cameras either malfunction, or are looking the other way. 'Anyway, I am sure you have insurance you can claim it back'..because of course, its that simple and it definitely would not make all future insurance go up..rather than the police doing their bloody jobs

Our neghbour was actually burgled once, and was told they would 'get around to it' but to secure her property the best she could until then. Turned up 2 days later to take a statement, and that was it.

Meanwhile, the two times in my life I have done anything serious enough to warrant police involvement (though nowhere NEAR assuaulting anyone, or stealing a car!) they have been there straight away. Both times arrested.

Might be crappy luck. But yeah, I do not tend to see the police as 'protectors' or anything really. Infact, in recent years, they seem to only ever be instered in offenses they can get a fine out of somene for, or for social media postings.

[parmnion]

Great post vicky.

[Scarlett.]

Twice, once when a group of joyriders crashed into an empty shop across the street, second time was when someone got beat up and knocked out outside (weirdly the guy who got knocked out did a runner before the ambulance arrived)