Police set up phone lines and online form to tell on neighbours

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www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-8162725/Police-urge-Britons-spill-beans-neighbours-suspected-breaching-coronavirus-lockdown.html

hey will be asked if their report concerns rule-breaking by an individual, group, or business, on what street, and at what date and time - by the minute.

It comes as police forces across the country face charges of 'overzealousness' from ex-MPs, lawyers, and human-rights groups this week.

Wow...

Welcome to the Stasi.

I'm just waiting for someone to snitch on me..for going to work for my non essential factory job..lucky I got a letter then eh

@pippishortsocks wins the internet.

It will keep all the 'log it with the police' types off 111 which can only be a good thing.

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Apparently Humberside Police are red hot on catching deviants.

Does it surprise me? Not to anybody who knows the Harry The Owl Miller case regarding free speech and so called 'hate crime' regarding a limerick.

I think setting up specific hotlines and reports are a way of triaging them out. Then websites could have triggers words/phrases to further limit the number of reports that will actually be looked at by someone who again will further reduce the information. Then if necessary that information will get passed on.

I get why it feels scary but I suspect it's a ploy to keep the curtain twitchers happy,busy and off 101 and 999 rather than setting up a country wide surveillance network. It does say that the places that have put this in place have been inundated with calls anyways. I might be wrong ofc.

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I had some random shout at me to “stay at home” this morning. As I walked into work to do my ICU shift (very obvious where I was going). He was out walking a dog, so what the fuck high ground he thought he was on I don’t know.

Some people are busybodying little twats.

so you want them to not bother with anything?

Hopefully the online forms just get rerouted to the Junk folder and emptied out every few days. Then Nosy Nora feels happy and the police don't have to frighten old ladies walking their dogs. The amount of neighbours from hell that would abuse this must be enormous.

pippishortsocks that is amazing

Oh great...my neighbour will love this...

Gosh what could possibly go wrong?

@Christmascarcass

Same happened to my sister. Some nosey parker walking his dog told her to go home...whilst on her way to work in A&E?

@Smithtylater OMG I wonder if it the same tosser! South London? Maybe he just loiters outside the hospital all day yelling at staff

@pippishortsocks your house is lovely

@MaidenMothercrone it is in my dreams

Isn't this to keep the main phone lines clear, and to allow police to clear groups, rather than to have a nation of curtain twitchers getting annoyed that someone's left the house twice?

On one of local Facebook community pages there's been warnings of petty crime increases with groups of late teens to 20s hanging around up to no good. They stand out even more with most people staying at home. Now more than ever it would make sense for police to know and move them on.

Michael Paine - springs to mind - fast show

Yep. Because people are stupid and don't realise that we haven't suddenly begun to live in a tolalitarian Police state.

So non-emergency 101 calls such as 'my neighbour is selling drugs and there are people coming in day and night and threatening me if I ask them to leave', 'there are 14 year olds driving cars on my estate, or 'my abusive ex partner has just been sitting in his car outside my house and says on FB he'll kill me'.

Which require a non-emergency response can be separated from 'my neigbour just went to the corner shop to buy wine, is this essential?' 'my neighbour just let their Mum come round' 'my neighbour is letting their child play with another neighbours child' calls which require no response.

I do find it strange that police were so "over stretched" before this pandemic, people were getting away with things they really shouldn't have because they just didn't have the man power apparently, yet they seem to have a lot of time, resources and man power for this . Fines for people who are out their house without a good enough reason. Anyway to make money out of people, and at a time where people just can't afford it.

I've been told be a po friend that they aren't answering calls atm unless it's basically a case of life or death. Yet they have time to stop my friends partner twice on his way home from work yesterday (in a car) to find out why he's in a car.

Is chalking the pavement or outside the bakers shop really defacing the councils property? Chalk comes off very easily, or does it?

pippishortsocks

😂

That reminds me of my trip to lidl yesterday, was in the meat aisle near a mother and teenage daughter (trolley each) who I had been queuing behind on the way in. A member of staff walked past and stopped as he clearly knew the daughter and they very briefly said hello and a how are you etc at an appropriate distance. As the staff member walked off the mother turned to her daughter and furiously said...'you're not allowed to socialise!!'
I think in some peoples eyes you're not even allowed to be civil anymore!

".'you're not allowed to socialise!!'
I think in some peoples eyes you're not even allowed to be civil anymore!"

That made me laugh.
I do think that if I bumped into an acquaintance I might be afraid to talk to them too much in case someone thought we were 'gathering' or even 'walking together'.