RussBoy

I don't know if this is a clever wind up, or SIAL (I am sure it must be a wind-up) but Wiltshire Police are pulling out all the stops in the hunt for a prolific local thief: http://www.wiltshire.police.uk/appea...iew.asp?id=467

I know Wiltshire is quiet but a good use of police resources?


Russ

fatherpierre

In a word, no.

It's hardly in the public interest to pursue these master criminals!

Jap2Scrap

I see it as proving cameras do tackle crime. Hurrah for Wiltshire police!

King RA

holy crap!!! they must be having a laugh lol!!!

unclebuck

They must be busy what with all this serious crime *and* monitoring all the speeding traffic on the M4.

paul-s

why chase someone for 3 quid when itll probably cost a few thousand to catch 'em and give em a caution

Iain Young

Wiltshire (or Swindon at least) police are a joke.

My brother had his car broken into the other day at his house, (windows smashed and sat-nav stolen). Took 5 hours of ringing again and again to finally get in touch with the local police station incident desk, only to be told that they weren't interested. Mainly because it had happened several hours earlier and any evidence would have gone by now

Similar thing happened to my sister-in-law in Swindon ceter a year ago when they had a car window smashed. She was standed in a carpark, in the rain, waiting for a pc to turn up for 3 hours before they finally showed.

Seems they are only interested in manning cameras these days...

paul-s

Damn camera vans, this wouldnt have happened if police wernt wasted in mundane useless jobs like that.
Ideally they would be doin something useful and responding quickly - if they wernt stuffing donuts in their faces

LUCKO

iTrader: (3)

if he had held the 'popcorn counter' up with a sub machine gun nowt would have been said!!!! what a waste of police resources

Iwan

I think it's quite a good idea. I'm not sure why some people think it's ok to steal stuff, it's taking the pi$$ really.

At least putting their picture on a website is cheaper than going through the CPS and courts process. Hopefully their friends/colleagues/kids will see the pictures and start ridiculing them for being pikey enough to nick a tub of popcorn.

Iain Young

How many of their pikey friends spend their time looking at the wiltshire police web site though? Seems a bit pointless....

OllyK

They may well do to keep one step ahead of plod, what with the councils delivering their benefits to the caravan they can probably all afford GRPS WAP mobiles anyway!

fatherpierre

How is it?

If caught they will either get a PND ticket for theft or go to court which means the whole CPS thing.

It wouldn't get that far anyway and be chucked out due to the value of the item taken, which would be a waste of police time and taxpayers' money.

It's still theft, I guess..................

LUCKO

iTrader: (3)

since when have pikeys had internet access??

_Meridian_

iTrader: (1)

It is of course entirely possible that this man is wanted for a lot of things, but with no evidence to convict. Suddenly the police of solid evidence for a crime. It might be their only way of getting someone they have been after for ages.


M

Iwan

Exactly, people think "oh it's just some popcorn" but it's the principle. Besides he might be the sort to nick your Scooby to take his bird home from the cinema too.

Felix.

If it is reported as a theft, it has to be investigated. In this case, there is CCTV so the suspects may be identifiable. For the crime to be investigated fully, all avenues must be explored. Theft is theft.

Ian - In your case, although annoying, if there is no realistic chance of catching the offenders (no CCTV, forensics etc), then often details are taken over the phone. This frees up time for the response policing.

MJW

If he'd only worn a burberry baseball cap, the police would've been screwed !