Car keyed: Options?

[~Divine~Wind~]

A little update, I went to give a statement yesterday and the officer asked me to provide the full length footage from when I arrived in the street until I leave showing that no one else walks past the car on the side that was damaged, hopefully I can get this tonight, they also wanted to see footage of my drive way CCTV from when I come home until the next morning when I see the damage to show it was not done overnight on the drive. I was also asked to provide a quote for the repair which I got today (£432).

I will update as and when I hear anything.

Hope you get this sorted mate, but wtf is tho whole CCTV for x amount of time before and after the incident? :/
What if you dont have CCTV at home? They just going to flat out ignore a crime that's been committed when theyve been given proof?

Suppose the police need to save time/money wheveer they can

 

[grudas]

Hope you get this sorted mate, but wtf is tho whole CCTV for x amount of time before and after the incident? :/
What if you dont have CCTV at home? They just going to flat out ignore a crime that's been committed when theyve been given proof?

Suppose the police need to save time/money wheveer they can

it's more the uk's laws and how things work.. for someone to get accused/charged of crime is very difficult!

I mean the number of cyclists that have been hit by cars, drivers recorded, faces etc and they get nowhere because the evidence is "insufficient" is crazy..

 

[Gaygle]

Hope you get this sorted mate, but wtf is tho whole CCTV for x amount of time before and after the incident? :/

Maybe, just maybe, the police officer who took the statement has dealt with a case of criminal damage before, has interviewed many suspects and knows that they will likely deny all knowledge of it? Therefore, it makes sense to get all the evidence you need prior to interview so you can hit back with something when they deny it. The alternative to this is interviewing the suspect, having nothing to challenge them on, letting them go, having to go back to the victim and ask for the rest of the CCTV, reviewing it all and getting the suspect in for a second interview. This means it would take way longer for crime to be investigated AND runs the risk of the CCTV being over written and evidence lost, which may equal the case being NFA'd which would then definitely equal one unhappy victim.

This is why you should let the police officers do the police officer stuff.

What if you dont have CCTV at home?

He obviously has told them that he does?

They just going to flat out ignore a crime that's been committed when theyve been given proof?

How have they ignored it? They've recorded a crime, they've taken the victim's statement 2 days(?) after he reported it and they're requesting more evidence before interviewing the suspect, for the reasons outlined above.

Suppose the police need to save time/money wheveer they can

Yeah because saving time and money whilst also investigating crimes more efficiently to increase victim satisfaction is just terrible.

If you were the victim, just what would you be unhappy about in this situation? That they didn't smash down the old womans front door, taser her then drag her out in handcuffs the instant you called and just *hope* that the evidence was of a decent enough quality?

 

[slick rick]

Thank you for your replies guys.

Gaygle is absolutely right, as the footage does not show the actual object being run along the car they wanted as much evidence as possible to show that she was the only one who could have realistically caused the damage.
I did tell them that the car is covered by CCTV at home.

I have to admit that the police were very good and taking the matter seriously, they just want to give me the best chance of getting the matter resolved.

 

[~Divine~Wind~]

it's more the uk's laws and how things work.. for someone to get accused/charged of crime is very difficult!

I mean the number of cyclists that have been hit by cars, drivers recorded, faces etc and they get nowhere because the evidence is "insufficient" is crazy..

That was my concern, lining up a get out "oh it's not recorded 24/7? cant do nowt"

Thank you for your replies guys.

Gaygle is absolutely right, as the footage does not show the actual object being run along the car they wanted as much evidence as possible to show that she was the only one who could have realistically caused the damage. I did tell them that the car is covered by CCTV at home.

I have to admit that the police were very good and taking the matter seriously, they just want to give me the best chance of getting the matter resolved.

That makes more sense haha

If you were the victim, just what would you be unhappy about in this situation? That they didn't smash down the old womans front door, taser her then drag her out in handcuffs the instant you called and just *hope* that the evidence was of a decent enough quality?

My reasoning above the fact he's already said theres CCTV at home means it makes far more sense

 

[Dis86]

Any update on this one?

 

[slick rick]

The only update is that the lady was questioned and denied causing the damage, which was to be expected. The matter is still ongoing though so I will post when I hear anything more.