Ducati stolen

Damn! Of course. Foolish of me.


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I don't think so. It would need *some* communication, of course.

I'd agree.

Or some kind of ticketing system?

Yes, I can see that might be less good.

This is beginning to seem less likely. Which is nice.


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Oh. Well, there goes my justification for the plod, then. Incompetent
buggers.

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That would make sense - if you don't have the manpower for a 24/7
surveillance,
then set up surveillance, call the landlord and/or owners, and then you
can stop anybody coming for bikes and arrest the ones who turn out to be
thieves.

Well, they could have taken a sensible option or just go in and do same
immediate
damage. The second option was obviously way more fun. :->

 

They only started thinking after I'd spoken to them every day (and on
some days more than once) between Tuesday and Sunday, *including* a call
on Christmas day.

That's at least half a dozen phone calls, during which I never managed
to speak to the same officer twice, which were all logged, and it took a
senior officer to start asking questions before someone made the
connection.

Something really doesn't add up about their 'evidence' - yes, they
managed to catch someone, but it would appear to be as a result of a
scattergun approach, rather than being based on any solid evidence - I
still don't have any explanation as to why it was my lockup which was
raided, even though there are bikes being kept in at least 2
neighbouring units.

 

Honestly, ask for someone to come round and explain the series of
events to you in person then be nice and tell them you understand it
was a mistake and as long as they fix the doors properly that'll be
the end of it.

You could ask them if they'll accept responsibility if the garage gets
raided again within a set time period (someone might have seen that
the door was butchered and assume there was something valuable in
there) and if they say no tell them that you're concerned their
actions might lead to a future loss and you don't know what you should
do but I don't think you'll get away with this because you could
stitch them up big time.

If they refuse to come round and explain everything then go tabloid on
their arses but be prepared to suffer the consequences.

 

Evidently a reasonable-sized team looking at it then. And I'd expect
shifts to chop and change a bit over the christmas period.

Look, these aren't just plod, they're Welsh plod. I'm amazed they were
able to operate the cutting gear in the first place, let alone play
join-the-dots a few days later.

 

Most of them weren't even on the team - they were mostly plod given the
job of chasing up the paperwork and fielding calls - hence it was all
supposedly logged on computer.

It could be worse, it could have been South Wales Police, who are even
more incompetent than my local force.

 

To be honest life's too short. I don't like the police but winding
myself into a frenzy just seems a waste of time.

 

I love this. The only bit they left out was that they had both stolen
and recovered it.

 

I've typed it twice and this makes it the third time; I don't
think they're going to understand how it works no matter how
many times this gets pointed out to them.

 

I understand exactly how it works, but it doesn't compensate for the
complete incompetence in their handling of the situation from the point
at which they had both the address of my garage and knew I was the owner
of the bike.

I do also question the amount of damage done in order to gain access -
seems someone was a little trigger happy with the angle grinder.

 

The crime detection stats will look good, if nothing else. ;-)

 

Because at a lucky guess, they spoke to him on the 22nd when he phoned
them in response to the note they put through his door to inform him
they'd 'recovered' his bike and he then, IIRC, mentioned to them where
the bike would have been if left where he'd last seen it, i.e: the
lockup which they'd inadvertently raided?

It therefore doesn't take a genius, assuming you're working from a
semi decent log of events leading up to the conversation in question
between Steve and plod taking place, to be able to add two and two
together.

I'm still putting my money on them hitting the wrong address - the
pictures Steve has taken would suggest they cut one hole to have a
looksee, then decided 'ah, there's a bike in here after all, so we
must therefore have the right addy'.

A wrong addy would also explain why they didn't put two and two
together when they first spoke to Steve on the 22nd.

Anyway, in reply to what you've pressed on this, the point is he's not
griping about the actual raid, he's (justifiably) griping about the
way that plod have seemingly not been able to tell the difference
between their arse and their elbow since.

Let's just hope the bike is in as good condition as when he last saw
it, eh...

 

Yeah... I saw that episode of The Bill too.

If you didn't see it, I suspect you'd be pleased to know it was 'the
wog that done it', and that they banged him up.

 

It's the Mr Angry from Middle Britain writing to the Daily Mail
syndrome working its way out. It's obviously a **** up but at least
the bike's safe, plod have admitted they fucked up and Steve will get
a new garage door fitted before the bike's returned to him.

 

"They who would give up an essential liberty for temporary security,
deserve neither liberty nor security."

 

But, but, but.... someone should do *something* ;-)

I'm not convinced that the bike is in a safe place, from the
conversation I had with the Inspector last night, either.

We'll see just how apologetic they are tomorrow and how quickly they can
get a hopefully undamaged bike back to me.

 

Think if the children!

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It doesn't read like that to me.

More that he's wondering why it took plod so long to put two and two
together when they've had the very simplistic facts of A: 'we removed
the bike from location A', and B: 'Owner has said the bike was last
left in a lockup at... oh... location A.

Not exactly unreasonable to question just how reliable their
procedures are when they appear to have missed the 'bleeding obvious'
for a week, is it?

 

I didn't mean Steve.