Complaint to police

[purpleme12]

Has anyone made a complaint to the police?
How long did it take to get a response?

Depends what you mean. I reported an incident on the Met’s chat function. Gave all the details and asked for an officer to come to my home so I could speak to them in person. They made an appointment.

Are you complaining about the police, or reporting an incident ?

I'm talking about making a complaint as per the title

You should get an acknowledgement in a week or so, then they'll assess it. It depends on the seriousness and/or complexity of the allegation, you may just get a call within a few days to try to sort it out, or a written acknowledgement then be contacted in the method of your choosing to work through what the issues are before an investigation.

Do you mean a complaint about the police or to the police? Your title isn’t clear

About who? The police or someone else?

Yep your title is unclear whether about the actual police or not?

Ok
I'm so impatient I just want to hear back and know someone's looking at it

OP if you’ve made a complaint to the police, about the police, you should get an acknowledgment of some kind.
Either a phone call to say we have it or an email or letter.
i don’t work for the police but most organisations have a deadline to respond - often 28 days or sometimes 60 days if it’s a more complex complaint.

Who would wanna help you with that attitude. Your title doesn't make it clear at all if you're complaining TO the police or ABOUT the police. There's a big difference 🙄

I still can’t figure out who the complaint is about?

But the title isn't clear. A complaint TO the police, or ABOUT them?

Also different Forces have different ways of initial handling/triaging which will affect who contacts you and when, but if you've not heard in 5 working days then send a chaser.

I'm not certain who the complaint is about either. Are you complaining about the police or complaining to the police about someone else?

Yea we can see you want to complain to the police, not who do you want to complain about?

*yes.

And *now who...

This seems very familiar. There is a poster who asks regularly how to complain about the police, GP, hospital, paramedics it never goes anywhere.

Lol I haven't made a complaint about anyone else.
To my detriment, my complaint to the police is not going to make a difference to our particular situation but I feel it still makes a difference to log a complaint so it's all noted and people will learn from it gote the future

@NorthernChinchilla ok thank you will do.
@jubileetrain about the police. About a specific police officer I guess. But it's ok someone above has answered