Police were in the Market Kitchen last night

No incident number, no anything. At the police station they just weren't interested. People may say I should have said this or I should have said that, but everyone who knows me will tell you I'm not backwards in coming forwards, and I was represented (as it were, not being at my best) by me ex who is a head teacher and therefore a very strong character. They just wanted me out of door and nothing we could have said would have changed that. They wouldn't even look at me, didn't ask if I was OK, didn't ask if I'd had medical attention, nothing. I tried reporting the incident online, but couldn't as I didn't have a phone number and it wouldn't let me progress without supplying one, while warning me that entering any false information would result in my prosecution.

I gave up trying for the sake of my own mental health.

And I made the right decision, because when I later collected my cards that were stolen that night, from the same police station, and I stood before them with my injuries still acutely obvious (bones sticking out of your face is quite a thing) they wouldn't tell me where they were found, who handed them in and informed me they would do nothing about it. They didn't even ask if I had a crime number from the incident. They didn't care to the point where it was actively hostile.

 

Did they think you'd been in a fight or something?

 

They just didn't care Helen, they really didn't care.

 

Beyond bad, for me anything involving violence should be no.1 priority.

 

So Basically Jay you got a no comment/action interview.

Policing aint for the average bloke on the street.

There `s some reight b@stards out there and some of em wear uniforms.

 

As a single person you are allowed to join another household and be part of that bubble and therefore socialise with them indoors. I live alone, but am part of my sister and her husband's household so can visit them.

 

Just to add to this comment, personally I've never seen a violent crime not be adequately investigated. I've never turned away a victim of violent crime, sometimes there isn't enough evidence to convict, but that's CPS's call.
You'll get bad apples in all forms of employment, but to say the police aren't trying their hardest to work with all communities (after being cut to the bone) is completely false.
The hours and manpower put into the most straight forward assault is immense. I've seen officers in serious emotional states after got getting tougher sentences against perpetrators. I've seen the amazing work family liaison officers do during stressful court cases. All whilst being expected to do normal day to day coppering.
Don't tar every officer with the same brush.
How many folk would want to be single crewed attending an extremely violent domestic assault? What do you deal with first, someone in urgent need of medical help or the scumbag who'd carried out? Or how do you get to that person when the scumbag wants to dish out second helpings on you and back up is 9 miles away?

 

Was I tarring all officers with the same brush, the word some was referring to folk in uniforms and folk in general.

 

And no doubt Billings has received a nice fat bonus for there being minimal recorded crimes in the region.