‘Greater Manchester Police broke down my door after getting the wrong house – and are refusing to pay for the damage’
https://www.manchestereveningnews.co.uk/news/greater-manchester-news/greater-manchester-police-broke-down-31431124
by pppppppppppppppppd
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Report the attempted burglary to the police . I suspect they will get onto getting you a New door asap
Happened to my brother in 2007 too. The house he had bought to renovate used to be a squat. He had owned it for over a year, it was under renovation, they totally the original Victorian door because they had intel that someone they wanted was still at that address. Clearly really shit intel, as they could have seen the house was on the market for a year, and had been sold to my brother for a year, had new deeds. They refused any payment and left the building wide open for a week, refused to even a temp fix.
ReAsOnAbLe UsE oF FoRcE. They should always pay for this shit, yet never do as they are allowed to hide behind such an excuse.
I think the argument is, these fuckers get so much freedom to be heavy handed and get it wrong. That it would cost the tax payer too much to cover them.
Everyone thinks the police are great, until they have to deal with them.
At this rate people should just starting installing steel doors, good luck bashing that in. I know it redirects them to windows but it’s a case of what’s cheaper to replace?
Small claims court and formal complaint. Name who you spoke to and who did it.
That’s the police for you; they’re nothing but cunts.
This happened to me about 15 years ago (South Yorkshire Police) whilst we were out, they mixed up drive and close, kicked in the porch door before the neighbour spoke to them and they went back to car and realised. They said get the door replaced and they will pay it on invoice, “trust us, we are the police”. So we did, called after the work was done and they tried to claim it was repairable, I had sent them photos of the door split into pieces. After some back and forth I got “ok we will pay for the door, but not the paint” thought it was petty, but least I got my door
Reminds me when the police was doing a raid in the block of flats I live in. Woke up to having assault rifles pointed at my face by the police my flat wasnt even the target flat.
Happened to me as well in 2011. They were chasing someone in the middle of the night and apparently thought he had jumped over my garden fence so they kicked the door in. I was asleep and my mother fell asleep downstairs in front of the tv. Then when they realised they had the wrong house they just left. None of us were aware of this until the neighbour came in and nudged me awake, he told me what happened and he had a recording from his cctv. The lock was broken so I phoned up in the morning and complained. At firdt they denied it but then I mentioned I had a video and then thhey admitted it. I asked for them to fix it but they refused and claimed that because they had suspicion of a crime they had the right to break it and didnt need to fix it. I then phoned up the independant police complaints commission, told them i had the video and I was going to the local media. I shit you not someone phoned me back 10 minutes later, asked me to withdraw the complaint and they would send someone round, so i did and a tradesman came round about an hour later and fixed it. I later found out that i had been stitched up because once i retracted the complaint i essentially gave up my rights to compensation which i should have gotten for their awful behaviour.
No surprise, my local police decided it was completely OK to post staged photos of a drug raid with the door to the building I live in on social media. Both the door to my flat and my very distinctive windows were fully visible in the photos. That was a fun one to explain to work the next day. Shortly after that, I had to leave that job because someone started a rumor I was coming to work on cocaine.
Do people not have insurance? Call your insurance company, get a new door. Let the insurance company deal with the police.
Sue them, they have to pay, tell the local nespapers
Surely, that makes it a criminal matter, and they should be arrested instead?
“Listen mate, your door is no impediment to justice. If the police need to kick your door in, smash your Tele up or shag your wife, then it’s open business for us coppers to crack on, yeah?”
– PC Donut 🍩
The egregiousness of it being on their website as a reason to claim compensation
After months of being ‘passed around like a football’, the force has refused to pay out for the damage because officers had been ‘given the wrong address’ by the 999 caller and that they were, therefore, not at fault.
However, the wording on Greater Manchester Police’s own website reads: “You can ask the police for compensation for things like forced entry (eg, the police were given the wrong address and broke down your front door by mistake).”
This thread has restored my faith in the people of this country a little bit.. the police really are shits
Unfortunately, they don’t have to. I think they should.
Thugs of the state do whatever they like without consequences. You’re just livestock to their masters.
I work in social housing on the out of hours doing general building work one of the jobs I do is make safe after police break in the amount of times I get there and there is always one of them bragging to his mates how he hit the door with his big red key and it broke like this or like that….It costs the council over a £1000 to replace most doors as they are either upvc or fd30s fire doors more of the frame is gone last year I attended over 200 of these most of the times they were doing welfare checks and couldn’t wait until someone came to let them in I’d say 98% of these had no one in ..worst thing is they don’t pay for and I’m only on the rotor 8 times year along with another 7 carpenters…all that money wasted i just lecture the police every time I attend they don’t care
This happened to me. The police admitted they made a mistake. I spent an hour with a senior officer about it and he ended up showing me the statute books where it’s all laid down.
It turns out, it doesn’t matter if the intel is correct, just that the police believe it to be correct. Even if that intel has never been true (as was my case).
When I replied “so what you are telling me is we live in a police state?” his answer: “it does seem like that, doesn’t it?”
As it happens they paid months later as a “courtesy” when my landlord took them to court (they paid just before, I assume they realised replacing my door would be way cheaper than paying for officers to attend court).
They are likely considering a claim
“By their own laws, it means the police can break down anyone’s door and then just say ‘bye bye’. It’s crazy. Despite following their instructions, I have received no resolution, only delays and poor communication. This has caused significant stress and financial loss.
“I will fight for my rights. Nobody has been willing to help me at all. I have only lived here for four years and moved from Hong Kong. It has made me scared.
I only want my costs back for the damage to the door. I spent my own time fixing this. Hours spent trying to ring the police. They don’t have a hotline for the department. I was passed like a football back and forth just to get some answers.”
Go to the local station or call 101 to get the address for compensation/repairs.
If they refuse you can possibly claim through small claims court but they are notorious for playing dirty through court
Can one sue in this situation? Are the police above the civil law? Are they not supposed to protect innocent people and property?
They can’t leave it insecure 😳 shit like this happens often, but they’d have had to arrange boarding up. That’s awful!
Pay the station a visit , rearrange the front door problem solved .
The Police are often referred to as Pigs.
This doesn’t come from nowhere.
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