Mr Dearsley blamed the government, adding: 'I was told the police didn't have the resources to investigate the case.'
He had filled out the online form under a new Crime Assessment Policy that came into force last year.
Police reviewed his report and decided to close the case due to the lack of CCTV, witnesses, suspects and 'forensic opportunities.'You know what, I'm not going to castigate the police here. What are they supposed to do, with so little information to go on? I mean...
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I have spent 2 months arguing, sorry, "in heated consultation" with my local force (thankfully, not the one I was in, but they're now just as bad), trying to persuade them that theft is a criminal offence and not a civil matter, as they keep insisting it is. I no longer tell people I'm a retired Police officer, but rather a retired social worker from Telford. I'm still mocked, insulted, and villifed, just not as much!
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Theft of a car. Theft of a child. Almost exactly the same Julia.
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trying to persuade them that theft is a criminal offence and not a civil matter,
ReplyDeleteas is smuggling but that doesn't stop HMRC/Border Farce insisting it is a civil offence (otherwise they would have to conform with PACE).
Watched breakfast tv earlier today, where the missing airman Corrie McKeague's family were on the sofa talking about why the search for him has been discontinued by Suffolk Police. I feel for the police, hampered at every turn by cuts in budgets etc, but I was left with a distinct impression that certain avenues had not been investigated. Rather, that only one avenue was pursued and when Corrie didn't conveniently fit into that, all others were abandoned. Feel for the family...
ReplyDeleteI had the same following the theft of my bike last year. They didn't have the resources to look at the CCTV and weren't even going to bother. I got a letter saying just that; case closed. The insurance paid up a few days later.
ReplyDeleteHow many 'final lines of inquiry' will this one make for the McCann's stupidity. Maybe it is because some high ups in the farce want an all expenses paid holiday in the sun.
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Longrider, if they don't have the resources to look at CCTV footage what is the use of CCTV?
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Ivan, quite.
ReplyDelete"if they don't have the resources to look at CCTV footage what is the use of CCTV"
ReplyDeleteIts useful when they want it to be useful, like when someone says something nasty about a Muslim......then they can find the time and 'resources' to check every bit of footage.
" I no longer tell people I'm a retired Police officer, but rather a retired social worker from Telford."
ReplyDeleteI believe the classic profession is 'piano player in a whorehouse'.
"Theft of a car. Theft of a child. Almost exactly the same Julia. "
That point whizzed right over your head, then?
" I feel for the police, hampered at every turn by cuts in budgets etc, but I was left with a distinct impression that certain avenues had not been investigated."
A very strange case, that one.
"Its useful when they want it to be useful..."
Spot on!