To tell you that “logging with the police” is a real thing?

[JessieMcJessie]

I see a lot of chat on here where a poster is advised to call the police about something in order to “log” it. Until today I was absolutely in agreement with those who said that this was a load of nonsense. However I have just been sent the minutes of a meeting betwe my residents’ association and the local community police and this is what they said:

What the police suggested is to place a call with 101 or 999 every time there is a problem, even if the police won't be able to attend, that will generate data and at some point we will be able to get more resources in the area.

The best thing to do is to call the police as you witnessed the incident, after that of course is great to let the concierge know that you place d the call with the police. the police confirmed that I am the only person reporting crimes and that itself does not generate much data so the police is under the impression we are doing well which is far from reality!

So there you go- almost straight from the horse’s mouth.

The point is, they record crimes. Not "a man in the High Street looked at me funny" or "someone walked along the footpath next to my garden at 11pm and I'm worried". Also, you don't the option of "record it but I don't want you to follow it up".

"the police confirmed that I am the only person reporting crimes..."

Seems highly unlikely.... on both counts. That 1) they're the only person 2) that the police would confirm this... ?

Jackandrose this isn’t the first thread this day that you’ve put a twattish comment on but do be a dear and make it your last.

It’s quite clear you’re a bloke from your previous posts, probably a proud MGTOW’er. On that basis, I do wonder if it is you, and not the OP, who doesn’t have better things to do.

I don’t know what you’re talking about JackandRose. These are minutes of a meeting written by the concierge of the building, who has been reporting crimes as part of her job. Not me, I haven’t reported anything. I didn’t even go to the meeting (I am a non-resident landlord). I just read the minutes on email.

Also, you don't the option of "record it but I don't want you to follow it up"
I have done exactly this. Whether or not it is different in cases of DV, I'm not sure.

Using bold to quote is perfectly acceptable on this site.

Bold is Mumsnet convention for quotation marks JackandRose. The words “this is what they said:” before the two bold paragraphs would also make it pretty clear that what follows is a quotation. I suggest that you familiarise yourself with the forum rules before you go shooting your mouth off to posters about how things should be done.

Jackandrose
People in glass houses...

Good grief Jack, you’re thick as slurry. It’s perfectly normal (and correct) to put quotation marks around a direct quote from a document. Run along. You keep making yourself look like a pillock.

Please do feel free to find another forum with rules that are more to your liking JackandRose. Your erudite contributions are clearly unappreciated by us uneducated posters here.

@Gilead maybe it’s changed now, whenever a friend reported dv to the police they still arrested him and cautioned him. Altho she asked not to press charges.

When not whenever

OP
Back to the point of the thread. I had a similar issue with low level but chronic anti-social behaviour where I used to live. I reported regularly (and carefully) which allowed the police to gather enough evidence to justify focussing resources on the problem.

Really not the case...

Oops, missed the mark by a couple of posts!

"BarbarianMum
The point is, they record crimes. Not "a man in the High Street looked at me funny" or "someone walked along the footpath next to my garden at 11pm and I'm worried". "

Or someone is having sex in my hedge...Oh wait I think that actually is a crime.

I don’t think the OP is a pillock.

I’m surprised that the police would invite people to log stuff with them- I mean who monitors all that or has time for it?

Jackandrose

Congratulations on derailing the thread - why don't you go away now and do something useful - like boil your head - it may reduce your know-it-all attitude.

Thanks for the info OP - I too wondered if this was really a 'thing'. Useful to know.

I don't think anyone means you can't log something with the police, you certainly can.

But some of the stuff on MN that's suggested to to log with the police is ridiculous.

Depends what you consider" logging" and what is done. If an allegation of a crime is made then it has to be reported and recorded as such. That is HOCR for you. Even though it goes no further it can be used by analyst to gather a picture of what happens in a locale and patrol strategies can be devised.