Police fail to solve burglary in half of neighbourhoods in last three years, as offence effectively ‘decriminalised’

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  2. Then the top brass gets robbed and half the force is around there DNA testing the skid mark in the toilet bowl looking for clues and patrols around their house become more regular than the force boasting how ‘good’ their latest busts are on social media.

  4. Burglary has become a progressively more difficult crime to solve as the years have gone by, and criminals have learnt what methods it is that police use to solve it.

    Police start forensically examining crime scenes? Criminals wear gloves.

    Police start to take advantage of the plethora of privately owned CCTV cameras? Criminals cover their face, so that they aren’t identifiable on the footage.

    Police set up an extensive network of ANPR camera’s, to identify and track the vehicles used in crime? Criminals start to use vehicles with cloned plates, or change plates regularly to avoid cameras.

    The most likely scenario in which police arrest a burglar is when they are caught in the act. If you phone in a burglary in progress, you will get every available unit going to that call, because everyone wants to catch a burglar. Unfortunately, if the burglar has already left, we have to resort to the above methods of investigation, and it becomes exponentially more difficult to solve, especially with the extremely limited resources available to police following the cuts of recent years.

  5. Government, missing the big picture once again. Burglaries might give the economy a tiny boost – after all, someone has to replace all the stolen stuff. But here’s a thought, what about the growth that never happens because businesses are scared stiff of setting up shop, or have to pour cash into Sunak level security?

    One small business I worked at got burgled, they stole all company computers, drives etc. and I had no job for over a month. Of course burglars were never caught. It almost tanked that company.

  8. In our area we used to have a retired police sergeant as the policing & crime commisioner. Then the brain dead tory base voted in an **insurance salesman** as the new one (when there was another independent police veteran on the ballot). Then they all wonder why the quality of policing took a nose dive.

  9. Interesting take on how police manage burglaries. Isn’t the absence of crime more important than solving crime? Like for example the 30% decrease in burglaries over that past few years.

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  11. When I got burgled they sent a forensic team out. They almost found nothing. Until they saw a smear on the entrance door. When they took a closer look it turned out to be blood. The junkie that burgled my flat had cut his hand on the inside glass door and left his blood on the outside door on the way out. They identified the guy within 2 weeks and sent me a letter confirming the court date.

    Sounds promising? Mixed bag unfortunately, because despite finding the dude the police did jack shit to recover my stolen belongings which were blatantly on sale in a pawn shop nearby. No one would go and look and the pawn shop refused to help unless the police asked. So it was rather frustrating that all my valuables I spent literally all summer working to buy basically got sold off cheap to someone on the high street and I couldn’t do anything about it. This was right after a seriously bad time in my life, it was meant to be the beginning of a new chapter for me.

    I was so enraged by the incident I had actually managed to sleuth the bastard’s full name, nickname, phone number, full address, family members names, friends names, facbook accounts, twitter account and what kind of drugs he was taking, all by pretending to be someone that had “goods” for sale. I didn’t know how I was going to get him back at that point… I would day dream about ways in which I could use that information to get my revenge. The next step was to learn his routine so I would know when he was out his flat for some time.

    He died before we got to court. Overdosed on smack.

    When I found out he died I found some peace knowing he probably overdosed with the money he got from the burglery. I keep that notepad file as a keepsake of sorts. So I can remember that if he hadn’t overdosed, I would have probably burgled him right back. Maybe left him some synthetic drugs that were bound to give someone a really bad time. (Like the fake LSD that lasts like 14 hours non-stop and a bottle of cider filled with piss. That’s one shitty night right there…)

    I’ll maybe get to burgle that junkie back when I see him in hell.

  12. There’s a fine line, but there’s something to be said about Chinas surveillance of everyone and using gait analysis to identify an individual. Can’t hide how you walk.

  15. Tory Britain.
    They’ve systematically rid the police force of 30,000 EXPERIENCED Police officers since 2010.

    Tories have set new sentencing guidelines to the Judiciary to prevent prison overcrowding.

    Tories have made burglary an occupation, and in some cases a necessity.
    Mass poverty, personal tax burdens the worst since the 1940s. Mass immigration, legal and illegal, to keep wages down.

  16. ‘The cigarettes the burglars took – worth £10,000 – were recovered’

    Anyone else finds it odd the article talks so much about cigarrettes worth more than most earn in a month?

  17. Who is surprised? When all their time is spent dealing with the mentally ill or pouring vast resources into sex crimes and domestic violence and get practically nothing in return because the victims drop it. People cannot keep piling more and more responsibilities on the police and then wonder why they cannot fight crime as they used to.

  19. Then loosen the laws around protecting yourself during a home invasion. If the burglars could be legally bound & skinned alive by the defendant they’d probably think twice.

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