Anyone else been burgled / robbed?

I have been robbed twice now and the first thing I do when I get a new car is have a “Ghost” fitted they can get the keys but they won’t drive the car away cannot recommend Ghost immobilisers enough

 

P.S I hope that they catch them and they get what’s coming to them 10 fold

 

Seems to be a lot of this about at the moment. Who's the police commissioner for Barnsley these days?

 

Never been burgled but had the shed broken into. Not nice but must be so much worse if they go in your house. My step daughter (now in her 40s) had a burglar when she was a student in Liverpool, she came home to find all her knickers lined up on the floor

 

SY Police & Crime Commissioner is Dr Alan Billings, I know him actually.. he's a thoroughly decent guy.. in the main though the problem is not the Police being lax or not caring it's the fact that the budget has been so screwed since 2010 by 'austerity' there just aren't enough Officers to do every job. The son of a friend of ours has just transferred up here from a force down south.. he was shocked to find his new station has less than half the number of cops to cover roughly the same demographic. Things have improved slightly since Cameron left.. had he transferred around 2016 he'd be with even fewer Officers than now.

 

It's an absolute joke that an 80 year old priest is in charge of modern policing for south Yorkshire though

 

I sort of get what you mean, but a very limited budget is exactly that choose who’s in charge

 

A few years ago a very good friend of my was broken into. They entered the his house got the keys to his Range Rover and proceeded to to steal the car. He heard them and ran down opened the car door at which point the scumbag hit with a hammer. My mate collapsed to the ground hitting the back of his head on the corner of low wall. He never regained consciousness and passed away a few weeks later. Possessions are replaceable flesh and bone is not.

 

That’s horrible to hear, rip to your mate. Hope they got or get the culprits

 

Yes they cought the culprit who got a very lengthy sentence. He was the scum of the earth who had a list of offences as long as his arm.

 

He isn't in charge as such... The Chief Constable is the man in charge. PCC is elected by us, his role is to liase with the Council leaders of the South Yorkshire Borough's /Cities, the local police and central government, ie the Home Secretary.. and address problems with the Police that may arise at community level, I believe he has a budget the Police can access for work that might not be considered ordinary policing.

 

You say he's not in charge but didn't he literally fire the chief constable once which led to a wrongful dismissal claim and huge costs to south Yorkshire tax payers?

 

He did, over Crompton's comments around the Hillsborough situation. I don't know if he was right or wrong in that tbh.. but Crompton was a disaster, he wrecked the established model of neighbourhood policing, where a team of Bobbies would work out of local police stations and know the local villains etc. in Mexborough for instance... quite a large town, he shut the station and had the coppers based in Adwick Le Street, unfortunately Adwick LS has a traffic bottleneck and at busy times it could take 3/4 of an hour to get to Mexborough... they then had to work from their car using hotbooks.. a laptop system that didn't work in practise, a local businessman offered his firms WiFi for police to use when they were around. The cops then had to battle the traffic at the end of their shifts to sign out in Adwick Le Street, an absolute farce. His replacement was Watson, a solid gold, proper copper who had done Liverpool, Manchester etc, reopened the station and put the boots back on the ground, obviously still had a small budget but made much better use of it.

 

I get that the police could do more, but the problem for me lies with the people that steal. If people didn't rob cars and burgle houses then the police wouldn't have to try and bring them to justice.

 

‘‘Twas ever thus I’m afraid, they’ll always be the ‘unruly element’ in society, However, the more high tech and materialistic society becomes so does the criminality increase. As with most public services, we need more of them, not less.

 

There is also the marginalised issue in society. As if by magic, during cov-19 the homeless suddenly had a roof over their heads, proving that it's an issue that can be solved. But we turfed them out again. Add to that a near-cashless society and people can barely get a couple of quid any more (not that that is a long-term solution but you get my drift). I don't know the answer, but people shouldn't steal.

 

So sorry to hear of this, Andy, old mate. Wishing you and your partner lots of love.
Kev & family.

 

Exactly, I have a friend who had someone approach him with knife in Leeds many years ago. Demanded his Wallet he refused and in the struggle was cut/stabbed in his forearm. That was about 10 years ago and the nerve damage means he will never have full use of that hand again. He did manage to keep his wallet that day but often says he wished he had just handed it over.

 

They can always find enough people to man the camera vans though