Police theft ...

rypt · 25 Aug 2009 at 16:14

Police 'steal' valuables from cars in a lesson for drivers

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1208909/Police-steal-valuables-cars-lesson-drivers.html

I know the source is the daily mail, but this was just covered on BBC News channel.

Do they not have something better to do ... like say do some real police work and arrest all the thieves so that it is safe to leave your car unlocked?
In Cyprus even expensive Mercs are left unlocked and no-one steals them...

EDIT: OK, how did I typo the topic?

rsatd · 25 Aug 2009 at 16:23

Because this is theft prevention?

simisker · 25 Aug 2009 at 16:23

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rypt · 25 Aug 2009 at 16:24

rsatd said:
Because this is theft prevention?

No .. theft prevention is to have visible policing that will deter any would be thieves and to arrest the ones that do carry out the deed.

Missing.String · 25 Aug 2009 at 16:24

I'm waiting for the inevitable screwup when they take something that someone really needs in a hurry or something stupid.

Scenario:

Person X needs medication, and has it in a bag in their vehicle.

Police take said bag.

Person X gets back to car, goes to take medication, doesn't find it, and dies.

Azagoth · 25 Aug 2009 at 16:24

Does double-clicking the thread title allow you to edit it?

rypt · 25 Aug 2009 at 16:26

Azagoth said:
Does double-clicking the thread title allow you to edit it?

Nope, but a Don has fixed it for me

Cosimo · 25 Aug 2009 at 16:26

Our local police are very good at theft prevention, they even lock people out of their houses when they leave their front doors open and are doing something outside.

PiKe · 25 Aug 2009 at 16:27

So, get a day glow jacket, a helmet and a pen and paper and you can go thieving from cars all day and nobody will bat an eyelid, brilliant.

Azagoth · 25 Aug 2009 at 16:27

So police are, in reality, going around on the rob. Shouldn't they be out catching the real criminals rather than trying to emulate them?

The mind truly does ****ing boggle sometimes at the complete and total ineptitude that are the governing powers in this once great Country.

rsatd · 25 Aug 2009 at 16:28

rypt said:
No .. theft prevention is to have visible policing that will deter any would be thieves and to arrest the ones that do carry out the deed.

Not really going to work now will it, if the door is unlocked, it takes just a few seconds for someone to open it, take stuff and walk away like nothing has happened. How often you hear car alarms going off, only to roll over on to the other side of the bed?

Also bad mods, bad, deleting our posts about ploce thefts! :mad:

rypt · 25 Aug 2009 at 16:33

rsatd said:
Not really going to work now will it, if the door is unlocked, it takes just a few seconds for someone to open it, take stuff and walk away like nothing has happened. How often you hear car alarms going off, only to roll over on to the other side of the bed?

This has a lot to do with over sensitive car alarms being set off by cats and birds; and house alarms going off on power failure (my parents' one used to do this, annoying as hell).
As I said, some other parts of the world seem to manage just fine with unlocked cars and houses - why can't we?

Many of the problems need to be tackled at the root cause - rather than to force people to act to avoid the problem instead of tackling what causes the problem

Barks · 25 Aug 2009 at 16:33

That newspaper is a joke.

It seems perfectly reasonable to me. I'd rather it was at a police station than in some thug's hands, that's if I was retarded enough to leave my possessions in such a position.

Indy500 · 25 Aug 2009 at 16:33

Great. When will these nonces do their jobs instead of hassling the common citizen? Or walking into people's property uninvited?

Last month, it was revealed that Police and Community Officers - known as Blunkett Bobbies - in Hove, East Sussex, were wandering uninvited into properties during a burglary crackdown.

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scott212 said:
That newspaper is a joke.

It seems perfectly reasonable to me. I'd rather it was at a police station than in some thug's hands, that's if I was retarded enough to leave my possessions in such a position.

This isn't Lambeth we're talking about here, its Richmond.

rsatd · 25 Aug 2009 at 16:37

rypt said:
As I said, some other parts of the world seem to manage just fine with unlocked cars and houses - why can't we?

Because we have a far greater percentage of chavs that need to be culled?

Indy500 · 25 Aug 2009 at 16:40

rsatd said:
Because we have a far greater percentage of chavs that need to be culled?

We're mostly crammed into urban centres, which by their nature will have higher crime rates due to local population density.

Burnsy2023 · 25 Aug 2009 at 16:42

It's not theft. There is no intent to permanently deprive.

markweatherill · 25 Aug 2009 at 16:42

1 - This is too much beaurocracy. Take the items and just inform the owners they can go to a forthcoming lost property auction if they want the stuff back.
2 - They could try a more well-off part of London to find (probably) correspondingly more careless behaviour.
3 - if they find a bag of cocaine or something, they're a bit stuck. They can't prosecute, I think, and they can't return it. Do they have to compensate the owner...?

meghatronic · 25 Aug 2009 at 16:46

Burnsy2023 said:
It's not theft. There is no intent to permanently deprive.

This.

G J · 25 Aug 2009 at 16:47

So whats happening? the police going around checking for unlocked cars... what happens when someone decides to dress as a copper they get free reign to take what they please? :confused:

Isn't taking something without permission theft/stealing, regardless of the intent.