The scumbags are operating in Hemingfield at present. Spate of thefts this week. Police have not even visited site of thefts, just given report number. If anyone is offered or knows of an old farmers plough called a Little Imp painted Black ang Gold. Please let me know via site and I will reward you if retrieved. Thanks lads and lasses.
Is there anything for the Police to do if they did visit or would you feel better just to see someone to find out for themselves? Not having a go just genuinely interested. Would you feel better if a bobby physically came and looked round and told you personally that there was nothing to go on? What's your minimum expectation and why? Thanks
im probably like many millions of folk in the country that expect the police to be eminently far more qualified than i at looking for signs of evidence. therefore if i had been burgled id at least expect a cursory glance over the crime scene.
I agree with the burglary comment - there is a massive debate going on at the minute about public expectation and what can be provided with reducing numbers, reduced funding etc, so I am simply wanting to know what your thoughts are on the matter, not extolling or defending not turning up. If I had my way there would be enough Bobbies to prevent something like this happening in the first place, but subsequently enough for one to turn up, provide reassurance and crime prevention advice etc for everything. At then moment, people receive crime numbers over the phone and don't see a Bobby at incidents such as ones of criminal damage where no one has been seen, where your car has been broken into etc. Limited funding/resources means you pay peanuts... (and not YOU pay peanuts, the govt!)
More often than not it's SOCO/CSI that are going to get something from the scene, and ought to be going to every crime. Local cops ought to be aware of who the active burglars are and should be deploying tactics focused on controlling offenders proactively, rather than depending on responding to each individual scene. Integrated offender management is the most successful way of controlling serious acquisitive crimes (car crime, burglary, theft) - and it's an approach that brings together prisons, the probation service, police, drug treatment teams and so on. It's not something that gets seen a lot by victims though, and the downside is that victims can be left feeling unvalued.
