Anyone read about the mum getting arrested for taking her dcs ipads?

Yes, this is the real story. Sounds like he was weaponising the police due to a disagreement with his Ex over screen time for kids.

Yes, they've said they were already at her house, when they got the call. Using find my iPad, found them in the house, but she denied all knowledge of them, then refused to cooperate with the police, therefore was arrested.

If she'd explained everything at the start, I'm.sure it could have been resolved straight away. Guessing (as Plod statement doesn't say) that they went to the school to enquire with children what had happened.

Agreed. The iPads belonged to the kids (gifted by Dad).
Mum thought they needed removing (temporarily?).
Dad with a grudge reported them as 'stolen' and put the Police onto her.
Ridiculous waste of public resources.

However, I knew a family where the 15 y/o Dd's smartphone was temporarily 'taken away' by parents for bad behaviour and social workers informed the parents that it was to be returned as they were damaging her social networks.

Unfortunately I have no respect for the police after how they dealt with me in an RTA (not my fault) and a recent break in to my property they didn’t attend or do anything at all.

Nope. However, it does show that it was a bit more complicated than “mum arrested for confiscating her children’s Ipads.”.

I don't think that police statement improves the situation.

Do you talk like that to everyone whose opinions you don't agree with?
Are you an aggrieved misogynist man and/or police officer yourself?

Only ones who talk absolute utter bollocks and make up what they don't know

And no I'm neither

Oh do stop talking bollocks.

Charming.
Do you talk like that to everyone whose opinions you don't agree with?
Are you an aggrieved misogynist man and/or police officer yourself?

It's not a ridiculous leap. It's based on a comment I saw beneath one of the newspaper articles about this incident.

It would potentially explain why the officers in this case decided to act in the way they did (cos the complainant was their mate) and treat this as 'theft' when it wasn't, and might also explain why the woman wasn't so keen to 'cooperate' (or just didn't understand what they were going on about) when they turned up on her mum's doorstep and accused her of being in possession of stolen goods.

We have no idea why an ambulance was called, or who it was called for, and whether or not this was also done on the basis of false allegations made by some controlling bloke...

Oh fuck off. That's a ridiculous leap

Did you see the part where they actually called an ambulance for someone. It wasn't initially reported as a theft. It was a welfare call

The immediate attendance at a property and the attendance at the school sounds like a child protection concern, so the first incident where there was a report of a concern for safety would clearly be right for police to go round, especially if the concern was about a child. The iPad situation sounds like he was using his kids ipads to track his ex wife or track where the kids were. I'm not sure why the woman didn't just say she had them and she had confiscated them.

it seems likely that the ex was a cop himself. which explains why his colleagues were so quick to rush to investigate this, and arrest this woman.
(most people complain that the police don't even try to locate stolen property when it's reported to them)

So much more to the story.

She outright lied to the police when they attended.

Fuck about and find out 🤷‍♀️

What on earth was going on that would create a safety concern at (ultimately) three different locations

Trying to locate the person the concern was about? The person they were concerned enough about to call an ambulance for.

Well, that's as clear as mud. They attended a school, and a house, because of a safety concern. A man told them devices had been stolen, even though he knew they hadn't. Why? What on earth was going on that would create a safety concern at (ultimately) three different locations? I know it's none of our business, but really the police shouldn't have bothered to tell us anything if they're going to be this gnomic.

So the police were called initially for a welfare check. The 4 police officers were actually only there long enough for the second crew to let the first crew leave at the end of the shift because they were still awaiting an ambulance. She also denied any knowledge of the ipads despite them being her children's

But noone will be interested in that. Why let the facts get in the way of a good story.

I read that too. They belonged to the DC not the Dad. The police wasted 4 police cars and officers and locked her up in custody for hours. If a house burglary occurs it takes about a week for 1 police officer to turn up.

Surrey Police have responded to the story on their Facebook page and there is way more to it than her confiscating the iPads.

https://www.casemine.com/judgement/uk/62cc6f60b50db97b28b75e9e

https://www.iclr.co.uk/blog/commentary/coercive-behaviour-family-and-queens-bench-division-proceedings-part-1/

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When I was underage my mum took a hammer to my iPad (but she bought it) and the police did nothing they just asked me what I did to make her do that. It is abusive to smash things and I don’t know how she got away with so much. I’m glad he got away and got a place in care but I didn’t get that chance

reminds me if some training I did once where the facilitator said she knew of a family who had a full drawn out childrens services investigation because someone had reported a child’s comment that mummy took her tablet away. They had their iPad confiscated for poor behaviour but it had been recorded as medication withheld as punishment. She told the story to highlight how important it is when recording safeguarding concerns you use the EXACT words a child used.

I knew it would be based on a complaint from an ex before I even read the article.

So, maybe I am wrong about it being the ex-stepdad rather than the actual dad. Still, any man who wastes police time like this is showing the world exactly what kind of person he is

quite

Just to update, the Daily Mail article about the iPad incident contains this hint:

"Ms Brown has been involved in fraught disputes with two different men in recent years after relationships broke down, it's understood, including the father of her children."

So, maybe I am wrong about it being the ex-stepdad rather than the actual dad. Still, any man who wastes police time like this is showing the world exactly what kind of person he is.