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British Police don't actually turn up anyway. Even if you hand them evidence, CCTV footage and the address, name and admission of guilt of the scoundrel.
They're not interested in break ins and thievery, only "real crimes". (Still waiting to find out what defines a "real crime")
Yep!
Toerags were on site breaking in in broad day light in full view of our caretaker. He phones the police and tells them that they are still onsite and that if they come now they will catch them.
20 mins later someone turns up. Caretaker tells them that the crooks are still on site and asks if they want him to show them around. "No thankyou sir, we've seen all we need to see."
Monday morning, I confirm on CCTV that they were indeed still on site...
I know there have been cutbacks and it's a hard job, but it'd be nice if they actually did the work occasionally...
Well according to the last big cases we've seen it's been miss rendering and questioning foreigner's praying rights in Parks... When the Cops show up (3 of them) at your door because of a Tweet but won't during a robbery, you know it's time to put on a yellow vest.
Living in your most-loved ally across the pond, I can say things are generally different here. Our police will show up for (just about) any reason that you call them, and generally relatively quickly. Granted, if it's a busy time and they're receiving too many calls for service, they will prioritize and it may be quite some time before you'd see them about a call for, say, graffiti on your building. But an active burglary, with the perpetrators still on-site, gets treated as a fairly high priority in most jurisdictions around here (though, as I'm sure is the case everywhere, calls from upscale, low-crime neighborhoods may get answered faster than those from poverty-stricken, high crime ones, but that may simply be due to those jurisdictions being better-funded).
While every jurisdiction is different (and we have a crazy mix of state police, county sheriff departments, city police and sometimes specialty forces like university campus police here), from all of the articles I've read from Vulture Central over the last few years, it sounds like ours generally do a better job of showing up and investigating. Whether you'll enjoy the experience may be a different story, as the reports of questionable police activity seem to be higher here (just read a story this morning about a poor fellow who got tased 11 times, including directly in the twig and berries). Personally I've always been treated.. well, I can't necessarily say "professionally", but at least "as reasonably as I feel you can expect from the police" in my few encounters with them, but then as I'm a reasonably affluent white guy I don't think most people would trust my my experience to be representative..
I think we probably do get out moneys worth... we just don't spend much money so we don't get much in the way of service. This is compounded by having a government who clearly see policing priorities in a different way to their citizens......
On the plus side wee seem to have less chance of innocents being shot by the police, less corruption and a better chance of some kind of justice if we get caught up in the legal system. But not to worry our government are trying to fix most of these things by:
Making it harder to get legal aid
Lowering the bar to make it easier to get a prosecution
etc. etc.
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