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Originally Posted by Derek S
I mentioned it seeing a lot of people seem to think all the Police do is sit about drinking coffee, eating cakes and sighing loudly whenever they have to attend a call. The job is completely different to most peoples idea of what it involves. As is mentioned in new officer training up and down the land. "It isn't like the bill"
So out of these 27 incidents and poor response time, have you complained to the local force regarding them? If so what was their answer?
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I dont want to cause an argument, but I can only comment on my local force and they are far from good.
This one officer per car is a farce, I got in a car with one officer to go after 2 guys who had given another guy a serious beating late at night in my front garden. I honestly beleive that had I not gone out with my baseball bat the guy could of been killed, or at least spent more than the one night in hospital he got away with.
I got in the car with the officer and we saw the 2 guys, I pointed them out and the officer stopped the car. The officer would not get out of the car and said to me 'There are 2 of them' I said 'There are 2 of us' but instead he called for backup allowing them to run away.
My parents had a spate of trouble with some drug dealers, the police were a waste of time. My parents had the bay window smashed in, the car vandalised on more than one occasion. There was CCTV evidence and eye witnesses but the police did nothing, in the end I had to point out to my mother that it would of been better to sort the probem out myself. (which she stopped me from doing)
One evening I got called again because there had been trouble, I was so annoyed at being disturbed yet aain that I went and dealt with the 2 drugged up pieces of ****. The problem was solved, no more trouble and they shortly moved.
I believe the problem of getting them to court, difficulty in getting a conviction and then the court not dishing out suitable punishment is the reason for apathy amongst many officers in my area.