to ask wtaf is going on with the Met Police?

[whatyadoing]

I was a victim of crime last night (serious crime and was in ongoing danger). I reported the crime at approx. 1.20am (999), they eventually made their way to my HOME address at 6am at which point I was home (no fucking thanks to them!).

I rang 101 this evening to discuss said crime and was on hold for 23 minutes at which point I gave up holding.
Wtf?
Is there something I should know about? What has Theresa May done now or am I just living in a particulary cunt of a bastarding place in London?

Coolncalm quite shocking isn’t it

user so it wasn't police dealing with illegal parking then, as your post originally implied, rather a completely different story, which no doubt has been made up for effect considerably embellished

I hope you are OK op. What a terrible experience.

But Brexit will sort it all out. We will be great again.

BlancheM, that’s depressing. So that man has got away with it?

Tax at nearly half your salary can by no stretch of the imagination be classed as “low” except possibly by people who don’t pay any

Christ Almighty Blanche Have they said why?

To everyone stating budget cuts are the reason how come there’s plenty of money sloshing around if you go 2 mph above a speed limit, or park and run in a shop for a couple of minutes, you will soon see a policeman then. Fuck off eith the budget cuts excuse

Utter twaddle. I live here and have done for 15 years. I have never experienced anything like this and don't know anyone who has.

Most 'police' speed enforcement is done by civilians not by actual police officers. Police and council employ people to do this job as it is part of the polices duty to enforce the law of the road, but obviously not necessary to always have a police officer sat in the van doing the camera stuff.
The police officers, and the other non police officers who work within the police are literally on their knees with a combination of workload, hate from media fuelling public hate, and being tied in red tape. The massive rise in things like cyber crime (whether it be fraud, grooming of children or harassment on social media) ... how are the police supposed to investigate and keep up when they haven't got the money to invest in the latest technology? Companies charge for everything... every time the police request something like phone records from a company they are charged for this... these things are considered basic evidence in a lot of cases but it costs a fortune.

Traffic police make money issuing tickets, fines, you name it- they're cash collectors. Saving a mugging victim doesn't pay and might be scary.

LanaorAna if you really think this then I suggest you donate 4 hours a week and become a special. See the front line for yourself. You don't have to do 4 hours every week, just need to do 16 hours a month. Then you can see how all the lazy cops avoid going to the scary robberies first hand

The police in general can definitely be slow and drag their feet in regards to chasing cctv, investigating, identifying suspects etc

That's because they just don't get the enquiry time they used to get. We can't afford them to be off the road doing enquiries when there's maybe only 2 cars doing calls. You just can't justify allowing 1 to disappear when there are ongoing incidents occurring.

Again it all goes back to the damn cuts

Just found this re. Putney Bridge jogger.....

www.bbc.com/news/uk-england-london-44639208

@Lanaor.
Tell that to the British cops who unarmed charged and attacked terrorists aren't with knives and fake suicide vests.
Tell that to all the dead police officers that have been killed in the line of duty.
Tell that to the friends I have seen beaten and bruised after wrestling with a subject in broad daylight and no one helped.
Tell that to the many officers who every day put their lives on the line so you can hopefully get home safe and live your life with relative freedom.

@Helena. They couldn't identify the guy, they appealed for info, checked cctv and made inquiries but they couldn't successfully identify the guy so unfortunately it went unsolved.

Helena the Met claim closing the Putney Bridge case isn’t anything to do with resources, but an ex Detective Chief Inspector cites it as a “classic example” of what happens when resources are low.

Look at the date the statement was released.............the day England were playing a match in the World Cup.

Traffic police make money issuing tickets, fines, you name it- they're cash collectors. Saving a mugging victim doesn't pay and might be scary.

No. Traffic police save lives by stopping people driving selfishly. They are the most likely officers to have to deal with people who have killed and seriously injured. To comfort bereaved children. To provide life saving first aid.

*who have been killed and seriously injured

This is normal now. Don't vote Tory.

The usual rhetoric around cuts is always trotted out and frankly it's bullshit. The truth is it's inefficiency, bureaucratic incompetence, waste of resources and institutionalised bigotry.

I've had a number of dealings with the Met police professionally and personally over the last 20 years, Tory and Labour govts alike it's always been the same. I have never once felt protected or well served. I reported DV many times, nothing was done. I was burgled, nothing. Assaulted - told to get myself hone and not to make a fuss. My bf's car was vandalised, twice, cctv showed who did It, they never even showed up for the footage. I have been threatened by a neighbour - a half arsed visit by the community officer who believed he didn't live there. And completely ignored his kids 3 uninsured vehicles on the road outside. Because that might have involved some actual effort. Conversely a family friend has been subject to police harassment, fabrication of evidence and police deliberately lying in statements - which I would not have believed could still happen but sadly it does.

I don't bother reporting crimes any more, there's no point. OP I hope you are ok now and safe.

@Helena. Are you saying police closed the investigation because they wanted to watch the world cup?

London is actually one of the least likely places to get issued a ticket for speeding by an actual officer . Gatso cameras do nearly all the enforcement these days , because the traffic officers that are left are either driving miles across town to get to serious rtc after serious rtc , or they are more focused on roadside drug testing or getting actually dangerously unroadworthy vehicles off the road . And they really don’t give a shit about parking unless it’s an obstruction , because parking enforcement powers were transferred over to the council at the same time as the powers to deal with noise nuisance . So traffic wardens are actually a thing of the past , they’re now local enforcement officers , and bugger all to do with the police .

Since 2009 , England and Wales have seen a drop of 20,000 officers . The equivalent of waving goodbye to two thirds of the Met . Or TEN county forces . You think losing the equivalent of the whole of Kent , Surrey , Essex , Sussex , Bedfordshire , Herts , Cambridgeshire , Hampshire , Thames Valley , Norfolk and Suffolk wouldn’t have an effect ? The thin blue line , is getting thinner and thinner every day . We don’t make the laws , Parliament do . We don’t get to choose what we can report or not , and we don’t get to choose what we can investigate . There is SO much being reported , that there simply isn’t enough officers to do it . There’s a chronic acknowledged national shortage of detectives, and that’s going to take a long time to fix .

@Velvetspoon, regardless of your bad experiences in the past, you are denying financial cuts have happened to the police budget?

Train101 she’s saying they tried to bury the news by releasing it when people were less likely to read or hear about it.

Train ..............please dont treat me like an idiot. Have a little think about why that statement might have been released on that particular day