Maureen Sorali-King was so fed up with thieves targeting Grandma's Attic in Edenbridge High Street, she donned a disguise and played detective herself.
She told the Courier: "The police are so busy you have to do it yourself. Maybe they might do something if I got stabbed.
"I've been treated diabolically and I'm sick of it."
You aren’t the only one!
On August 29 a group of people stole about £7,000 worth of Royal Crown Derby crockery from the shop.
Ms Sorali-King's sophisticated seven-camera CCTV network recorded images of a man, three women and a child and she immediately sought to give the footage and photos to the police but found they were often busy.
Really? How come?
Could it be because of what they show?
So she took matters into her own hands, disguising herself with a charity shop wig before heading up to Essex on the trail of the culprits.
Since then she has visited travellers' camps across Kent, Sussex and Surrey, where she believes she will find those guilty of the crimes.
Well, well, well….
She has passed on findings from her undercover operation, including a sighting of a vehicle she believed was involved, to the police but said their response was simply to stay away from the traveller sites.
Undeterred, she now plans to plaster the front of her store with more than 30 photos of those she believes are responsible.
I bet
that brings them round to her shop! Probably to whine about the suspects ‘human rights’.
A spokesman for Kent Police said… police had struggled to reach Ms Sorali-King by phone …
Eh? Dial buttons too small for fat plod fingers? Lost the station handset down the back of the staff room sofa?
… but they had reviewed their response and said the correct procedures had been adhered to.
How can this possibly be the case? Surely ‘the correct procedures’ would have been to get the CCTV and distribute it as widely as possible?
Utterly disgusting. The police far too often fail to apprehend those who are committing offences even when evidence is presented to them.
ReplyDeleteOn the other hand the Metropolitan Police are quite happy to protect treasonous bearded savages from their opponents.
( http://farenheit211.wordpress.com/2012/11/11/we-should-no-longer-tolerate-our-troops-being-abused-by-extremists-nor-the-police-protecting-the-abusers/ )
Nothing screams the failure of multiculturalism like the daily drip drip of evidence of how the ideology of two tier justice has corrupted the legal and police systems.
Modern Police 'correct procedure':
ReplyDeleteEeek, Gypsies, no action
Eeek muslims, no action
Eeek Ethnic 'culture', no action
Eeek Billy Burglar might kick off, no action
Robert, you speak like a current trainer from Hendon Police Training Centre. LOL.
ReplyDeleteI'll never forgive the multiculturalists for giving us a two tier justice system which treats people differently according to their race, belief or culture, especially as it took centuries to grow a system where everyone was considered as equal before the law.
'' but they had reviewed their response''...that's part of the problem right there. Like some other organisations I can think of, they consider themselves above the law with an astonishing piety.
ReplyDeleteAs an ex-Plod such reports drive me close to insanity, the thieving bastards have recently started to remove person-hole covers from the streets. In my willage there is no street lighting so NWNF lawyers - watch out - there's money to be made.
ReplyDeleteCouncil taxpayers money will be spent replacing them and the police will do sweet FA. I'm sure I will read an article, at least one, about the marvellous cultural diversity that these thieving pikey scumbags bring to British society. No doubt Kent police will have an open day or an article about their very own roany Gypsy police dog handler....again. All i know is that the majority thieve and are responsible for over 75% of all distraction burglaries and other pensioner related fraud, don't pay tax, jump the queues for public/health/ education services, claim benefits fraudulently, don't insure/tax their vans and 4x4s, and ride roughshod over local planning laws and regulations aided and abetted by the state.
Bring back the SPG!
Like Anon at 09.57, I am appalled at lack of Police action in this case. The usual ideological suspects have now amassed so much power it appears that only criminals, thugs, liars, perverts and politicians have any rights. If there is any aggro about the photographs of the scumbags being placed on the shop window, the lady can always use Youtube - a wonderful method of getting a message across, it doesn't take a lot to prepare a brief written summary, show the footage and photos, and end with details of the Police lack of action. As long as the content is not libellous, untruthful or misleading, there is no offence. I can't wait!
ReplyDeletePenseivat
"I'm not scared of gypsies – even if the police are."
ReplyDeleteIf you are reading, Maureen, we are not all equal before the law. Police disinterest in your significant loss is a common experience for the small, non-Masonic business. A combination of plod ineptitude, laziness, unaccountability and their multi-tiered response policy, places ordinary folk at the back of their 'service' queue.
Your brave words are more likely to attract the attention of plod than a significant theft which may prejudice the financial stability of your business. Anything plod can manipulate into a threat against 'minorities' earns them valuable points and disadvantages yourself.
Plod will find their own excuses for diversions. Never knowingly assist any of their fishing expeditions.
Bunny
ReplyDeleteAs has been said earlier, they have followed their protocols and not the requirements of the law, therefore they are in the clear. Absolute bastards, these idiots do not realise that the constabulary police by consent and that consent is being eroded by the new bureaucratic management structures. Get rid of the tickboxes and do the job, the last lot in power a bunch of lawyers introduced the paperwork to reduce the possibility of legal action against the police and therefore hamstrung them.
Local private sports club 18 months ago, travellers move in and trash pitches and tennis courts. Kids jump on cars and demand money to stop.
ReplyDeletePolice refuse to take any action. Further pleas for help are met with 'In line with current policy, we are aware of the situation and are monitoring it'.
Result? Thousands of pounds worth of damage and about 1000 club members who now utterly despise the police.
She should have reported that they had published pictures of a burning paper flower.
ReplyDeleteKent police moved quickly on that one.
Police/dogs/cyclists. Police/dogs/cyclists.
ReplyDeleteEtc etc.
Bored jaded? Try Gadget for plod/plod/plod
ReplyDeleteAfter tomorrow the new PCC will have to sort it out.
ReplyDelete"Nothing screams the failure of multiculturalism like the daily drip drip of evidence of how the ideology of two tier justice has corrupted the legal and police systems."
ReplyDeleteSpot on.
"...that's part of the problem right there. Like some other organisations I can think of, they consider themselves above the law with an astonishing piety."
As Bunny points out, it's tickbox culture. Have we followed procedure? Then we're golden.
"The usual ideological suspects have now amassed so much power it appears that only criminals, thugs, liars, perverts and politicians have any rights."
And the Coalition shows no signs of wanting to start the onerous work of rooting them out, one by one.
"Police/dogs/cyclists. Police/dogs/cyclists."
Yes. And..?
ReplyDeleteO/T
"Five police arrested for 'persuading criminals to confess to crimes they did not commit'"
Only five?
Julia, I know you are a keen reader and have similar tastes to myself going by the books you recommend. Might I recommend "The City and The City" by China Mieville. Multiculturalism taken to its (il)logical extreme
ReplyDeleteHaving read a few of China Mieville's oeuvre (not "The City and the City" as yet) I like him as a writer ("Perdido Street Station" was a brilliant book I thought) but his politics (he's an active SWP member) do shine through sometimes (e.g. "King Rat").
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