Intruders Police Don't Care!
 

We have squatters in the flat above, so I phone up the police and say 'We have intruders'.
I get passed on to a queue, wait over 10mins, so give up. 'We're sorry for the wait but your call is in the queue'
The police are so crap, it's really spooked me out, it's a Saturday, I can't get onto the council till monday, am going to have a weekend of worry not knowing if they are just squatting or what??
:disturbd:

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Can the police evict squatters? I thought it was some sort of civil law thing. Although I'm not sure if the law was changed a number of years ago.

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Even worse news, mate: Squatter's Rights. Even if the boys in blue DID turn up, there's little or nothing that can be done unless the people upstairs are doing something illegal. Squatting is a civil matter which the police cannot get involved in.

That's probably why they haven't treated it as a priority.

Expect your visitors to be there for a few more weeks yet :(

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Yeah that's why I reported it as 'INTRUDERS', was thinking the police would come round heavy handed and scare them off.
But I didnt even get as far as reporting it as. I got through to some one who put me in the que AFTER i wispered 'We have intruders.'
I just hope no little old ladies have to phone the police when they have intruders.

P.s. The police station is less than 5mins away but going around there myself is no good either as I tried that last time we had some bovver here. :mad:

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you should have said the people upstairs have an untaxed car and have been exceeding the speed limit in it........the police would have turned up mob handed...........

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You did see someone carrying a knife didnt you?
Or did you hear air rifle shots?

A colleague use these excuses to get the police to his local park when yobs are causing agro & it seems to work.
Once they turn up you were mistaken of course.

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There are enough people that complain that the police don`t devote their time dealing with "proper" crime, yet here you are advocating lying to the police for the sake of personal convenience over a few "yobs" causing "agro", whatever you're definition of that may be. I suppose that if you waste police time for your own personal convenience then it shouldn`t be considered to be a crime.

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go in mob handed with a few mates
and 'join' the squat


make loads of noise and be totally obnoxious

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It's all sorted now. I managed to get hold of the owner. who came back and asked them to leave. Thankfully they were your hippy type squatters, rather than druggie type so left without any bovver.
No thanks to the police. :td:

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Squatter's rights? Gee. Does that mean I can come and squat on anyone's property and your cops can't do anything?

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I'm not too sure on the rights of squatters or landlords, but the site below has some info if your interested.

http://www.squat.freeserve.co.uk/story/ch14.htm

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That's just about right (another example where laws are different in America...) as squatting and trespassing are civil matters in which the police cannot intervene unless ordered to by a court. This of course changes if the squatter used forcible means to enter, in which case they'd be up for criminal damage and then the police can step in.

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Why not, the American's seem to be very good at it when they do it to another country.

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:rolleyes: :)

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Hey, but its alright to lie to the Police, Jerreck told me so. :D