Getting out of handcuffs?

[FrostedWoods]

This is such a bizarre thing to write about but hear me out!

Had a weird situation with the police last night. Won't fully go into it but they mistakenly thought there was a criminal in my house and I was arrested then unarrested when they realised their mistake. I was put into handcuffs. I have hypermobility. And I think due to this I could get out of the cuffs pretty easily. Has anyone else experienced this?

I was so suprised at how easy they are to get out of. Do they have any kind of back up if they really need to keep someone secure? Just keep thinking about it! 😄

@Icequeen01
What?

It sounds like they where just trying to figure out what was actually going on

You have had experience of all 148,000 police officers in this country so therefore are qualified to state they are all incompetent? I too had a rubbish experience recently with the police when I was robbed but I’ve also had some really good experiences. I just hate all this generalisation of different jobs such as teachers, police etc (and I’m neither of those). Try saying some are utterly incompetent to make it more accurate?

@Icequeen01
I was hauled from my bed at 4am and arrested on allegations my STBXH fabricated to get me out of the family home, with no evidence, and held in a cell for 13hrs awaiting questioning after being put in the back of a van. I was then asked questions such as “did you give STBXH COPD?”, you cannot give some COPD, and STBXH has never been diagnosed with COPD. I was then told that they couldn’t ensure my young DC could come with me when I was bailed from the address, it was up to STBXH. LUCKILY, STBXH allowed DC to come with me.

it was agreed with the police a third party could collect my belongings the next day. STBXH changed the locks and I’ve not been allowed my things since. Police say it’s a civil matter and won’t get involved. That was six months ago, if I change the locks then I risk STBXH being issued an occupation order and losing rights to the property for a number of months.

So yes, I find the police and the laws they enforce to the utterly incompetent.

And I agree that is utterly awful for you and your family and I’m truly sorry for what you have gone through but my point still stands. Some police officers are utterly incompetent whilst others are decent people trying to do a difficult job.

I am very hypermobile (EDS) and can slip wristbands etc off very easily because my thumbs can kinda melt into the rest of my hand. I’ve never been handcuffed but I suspect that I’d be able to get out of them just like you did unless they were very very tight around my wrists. (Even if my hands were behind my back)

I think most people wouldn’t be able to get handcuffs off, so it’s not really an issue for the police.

Yeah that would be impossible! She must have thought you were hiding him then 🤣

Why would you risk an occupation order yet he’s done the same thing and hasn’t?

copd- goodness grief!

They just randomly arrested and cuffed you in your own house without asking any questions about who you were?

OK then

You need to be put iNto cable ties lol

I take my comment back as something happened to me where they walked in but wont go in to too much detail

I think they should have paid more attention to what was actually going on i.e that it was happening at another address before they knocked on my door! Also I don't think they are allowed to detain people while they try to figure out what is happening.

We are allowed to have opinions on the police without having experience of every officer! It is about the whole system. We can use our own experience as well as others/news reports etc as well as experience not of direct officers but the way things work - I.e there is noone you can complain to. My opinion is that the police as a whole are incompetent and the whole system needs reforming.

That is awful, I'm so sorry.

Yeah, true. Only just realised that so must have thought he went in the loft and I closed it up. Would have been great detective work if she'd checked the actual address first!

Try reading the thread so you are aware of what actually happened before commenting.

Except...this doesn't add up as I answered the door as soon as they knocked so not like I had time to do this! Maybe they think the kids did it! Who knows?!

It can't ever be an excuse for handcuffing someone and taking them into a cell that you were "just trying to figure out what was actually going on". That would be ridiculous.

OP, I suggest you have a chat with solicitors specialising in police law, e.g. Irwin Mitchell, Hickman and Rose, Bhatt Murphy. Unfortunately this sort of conduct by the police is not that uncommon and they need to be held to account for it.

Dealing with the police can be unsettling at the best of times. A relative of mine was questioned about a missing child once, and found the whole experience traumatising. The case was never solved.

@fashionqueen0123
i am classed as housed as I’m now with my family, ATBXH claims to have nowhere else to go.

This sounds quite sensible to me, anyone could have been hiding in the loft/the ladder could have been unstable. Doesn’t sound farcical at all. I’d be interested to see what their body cams show..

How sad 😔

The ladder isn't unstable. She was just scared because it was a bit wobbly, aparently. And well, I suppose anyone could have been anywhere! Didn't stop her looking elsewhere. One minute it is so desperate they have to enter our house just as we are about to celebrate new year and the next they can hang around waiting for back up for a wobbly ladder. Don't know why they didn't swap so she could make sure I kept the hand cuffs on and he looked in the loft. Maybe he was even more scared of heights than her. Don't know how they would have coped with a real emergency/actual criminals.

Laser or pepper spray...