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.

Jackandrose Ypu sounds like an angry person. Have you nothing better to do?

The only one who looks like a pillock is you.

Nope.

”Can't bear people who don't know how to post properly.”

Lol!

I look at 101 records as part of a volunteer role. They can absolutely be useful. For example, one guy phones to report a ‘dodgy looking white van’ and gives a number plate. The next curtain twitcher in the same street says she saw two ‘eastern europeans’ on next doors drive.

The third call is to report an burglary on the street by, yup, the stereotypical but actually real guys in the van. Householder came home to witness them screeching off his drive but couldn’t give a clear description other than white van. Police are able to quickly track down the van and recover all the stolen loot.

I’ve vagued it up a bit but this actually happened.

Logging it is indeed helpful. Although I have to say some of the calls are ridiculous (neighbours cat in my garden etc).

:o Cant beat a self rightous arsehole who is pathalogically incapable of accepting that they are in the wrong. Very entertaining!

Although maybe we should be more charitable in this hot weather, perhaps his budgie smugglers have cut off the circulation to his brain.

Pyong

I'm forever 101 logging the drug dealers next to my house. They lurk, a customer arrives. I'm on the phone with descriptions. The community police officer has said that they do want to know these things.

The government can say that crime is going down, when we don't have that experience, if we don't report things. We're all grown ups, we know that it's unlikely someone will be prosecuted most of the time, but crimes must be reported so they can be recorded.

It's not as clear cut as calling to log all incidents. In this situation it's for a specific area and they're probably thinking more of general disorder, youths etc

You can't just 'log' an actual crime. I hate seeing advice on here for someone who for instance has been assaulted by a partner but doesn't want to report it as such. They get advised to 'log it' It doesn't work that way. If you report an actual crime the police (at least in Scotland) are obliged to follow that up.

I do agree tho that too often people on MN recommend logging the least wee thing. Like someone looking at them the wrong way.

It sounds as if in the area the OP is in they're working pro actively to sort problems but I don't think any Police Officer would advise people in general to just log anything. A bit of common sense still needs to be applied

In terms of ‘logging but not pressing charges’ I don’t really know how the police work to be honest, but I thought it didn’t matter if you wanted to proceed with pressing charges or not, that they might ask you if you want to persue it, but ultimately it’s down to the CPS if they take it further?

Didn’t realise this was a ghost thread 🤦‍♀️