Friday, October 27, 2006
They don't like it up them
I've been sitting on this due to other pressures, but the local "news"paper reports here on a police van burnt out by some "yobs".
Of course any sort of attack on private property is out of order, but isn't it the job of the police to prevent this sort of thing? I remember when my car got stolen and I phoned it in, from the tone adopted I could easily imagine the gallic shrug and the "Je regrette ... there is nothing we can do". The reluctance to issue a crime number as let's face it there was never going to be a detection. I went out looking for the car myself and indeed found it, it hadn't yet been burnt out. I phoned the police again who told me that it was up to me to get it recovered and no they weren't interested in attempting to obtain any fingerprints.
So one of those things I suppose, stuff happens and you have to get on with it. It wouldn't be so bad except for the fact that we actually pay for this police "service".
So what happens when the police van gets torched? "... police, in a massive show of force, descended on the area with up to eight vehicles and blocked the road". What happened to "Je regrette", the gallic shrug, and the massive show of indifference? These police officers so stupid as to lose their van could have gotten a taxi back to the police station (like I had to do when my vehicle was stolen) and despite what I suspect is a token arrest being made, my money is on this going undetected. What could possibly have justified sending eight vehicles? It's just another burnout vehicle, the public will pay, "forgive, forget life is full of misfortunes".
This didn't go unnoticed by the locals: ""It's hard enough to get them down here when anything is going off but when it is one of their own they come down in force.""
"Sergeant Lee Pointon, of North Yorkshire Police, said: "It's absolutely disgusting behaviour and we will do what we can to trace the offenders."" No it isn't any more disgusting than it happening to a member of the public, you don't treat it specially then and you shouldn't do so now.
Here is an article about one of the paper's readers filming the event, a link to the video is provided (I don't know what it's like as I haven't watched it).
Here (on the same day as the original article) is another article from the same source about car crime soaring in York. So that gives you an idea of the priority this normally has for our local police.
Here from the next day is an article laughingly called "A force to be reckoned with" telling us how good North Yorkshire Police are and how great they are at meeting governemnt targets.
Here is a link to the story of the £28,000.00p shower for the Chief Constable by the excellent Ken Frost at Nanny Knows Best. Here my own poor efforts.
In any event no doubt soon they'll decide the old fashioned Yorkshire Rose has no role in "modern" policing and they'll want to change their logo. May I be the first in suggesting a showerhead?
Of course any sort of attack on private property is out of order, but isn't it the job of the police to prevent this sort of thing? I remember when my car got stolen and I phoned it in, from the tone adopted I could easily imagine the gallic shrug and the "Je regrette ... there is nothing we can do". The reluctance to issue a crime number as let's face it there was never going to be a detection. I went out looking for the car myself and indeed found it, it hadn't yet been burnt out. I phoned the police again who told me that it was up to me to get it recovered and no they weren't interested in attempting to obtain any fingerprints.
So one of those things I suppose, stuff happens and you have to get on with it. It wouldn't be so bad except for the fact that we actually pay for this police "service".
So what happens when the police van gets torched? "... police, in a massive show of force, descended on the area with up to eight vehicles and blocked the road". What happened to "Je regrette", the gallic shrug, and the massive show of indifference? These police officers so stupid as to lose their van could have gotten a taxi back to the police station (like I had to do when my vehicle was stolen) and despite what I suspect is a token arrest being made, my money is on this going undetected. What could possibly have justified sending eight vehicles? It's just another burnout vehicle, the public will pay, "forgive, forget life is full of misfortunes".
This didn't go unnoticed by the locals: ""It's hard enough to get them down here when anything is going off but when it is one of their own they come down in force.""
"Sergeant Lee Pointon, of North Yorkshire Police, said: "It's absolutely disgusting behaviour and we will do what we can to trace the offenders."" No it isn't any more disgusting than it happening to a member of the public, you don't treat it specially then and you shouldn't do so now.
Here is an article about one of the paper's readers filming the event, a link to the video is provided (I don't know what it's like as I haven't watched it).
Here (on the same day as the original article) is another article from the same source about car crime soaring in York. So that gives you an idea of the priority this normally has for our local police.
Here from the next day is an article laughingly called "A force to be reckoned with" telling us how good North Yorkshire Police are and how great they are at meeting governemnt targets.
Here is a link to the story of the £28,000.00p shower for the Chief Constable by the excellent Ken Frost at Nanny Knows Best. Here my own poor efforts.
In any event no doubt soon they'll decide the old fashioned Yorkshire Rose has no role in "modern" policing and they'll want to change their logo. May I be the first in suggesting a showerhead?
