Police Wrap - 28 April

LOL at Special G’s link!!!

When the police tell me to go and do their job for them, by seeing what a clearly armed and dangerous person is doing, you know something is wrong.

40 minutes later the cops did show up. By that stage the thieves had left in a car they hotwired and I was outside inspecting what they had done. I was asked what was wrong (repeating the same story I told the cop on the phone, these guys were oblivious to anything I had reported) and both of the officers didn’t even bother getting out of their car to see what had happened.

Took my details, and drove off. Absolutely amazing police work right there.

You – are going to have to expand on that one. Sounds reasonable to me. is the offender still in the house, does he have hostages, has he decamped in a northerly direction.

Given your whingy sounding tone Police probably do have better things to do like drinking coffee and eating donuts or maybe even real police work http://www.snopes.com/photos/odd/ronald.asp

Having recently witnessed and reported an armed (knife) break in to the police, and old to “go out and see what is happening” it does indeed appear that the police do have better things to do with their time. Like for example, not doing their job.

Blingerific said :

I have to ask, they stole a mobile phone, which has an IMEI number that is absolutely unique registered on the network, using that number the position of that phone can be triangulated very accurately through the current generation mobile phone network. Why aren’t the Police using this capability? Even if you change the SIM card the IMEI number remains the same. One would imagine if the Police used the capability to track phones and catch the thieves that mobile phone theft would be very much wiped out.

But all that happens is the network operator bars the IMEI number rendering the phone useless. And the criminals get away scott free. Is this a sign of how weak our bleed-heart society has made the law?

How on earth do you know whether or not the police are using triangulation?

Perhaps they have better things to do with their time than broadcast investigation techniques to the general public and the crims who may or may not be currently holding a stolen phone.

Blingerific said :

I have to ask, they stole a mobile phone, which has an IMEI number that is absolutely unique registered on the network, using that number the position of that phone can be triangulated very accurately through the current generation mobile phone network. Why aren’t the Police using this capability? Even if you change the SIM card the IMEI number remains the same. One would imagine if the Police used the capability to track phones and catch the thieves that mobile phone theft would be very much wiped out.

But all that happens is the network operator bars the IMEI number rendering the phone useless. And the criminals get away scott free. Is this a sign of how weak our bleed-heart society has made the law?

Chances are they threw the phone away quite quickly.

Muggers steal phones these days to slow down the victim reporting the crime to police.

shitzu said :

“The pursuit lasted for two minuets”

Assuming the minuet – a French slow courtly dance – is five minutes long, then the pursuit lasted ten minutes?

LOL

“The pursuit lasted for two minuets”

Assuming the minuet – a French slow courtly dance – is five minutes long, then the pursuit lasted ten minutes?

I have to ask, they stole a mobile phone, which has an IMEI number that is absolutely unique registered on the network, using that number the position of that phone can be triangulated very accurately through the current generation mobile phone network. Why aren’t the Police using this capability? Even if you change the SIM card the IMEI number remains the same. One would imagine if the Police used the capability to track phones and catch the thieves that mobile phone theft would be very much wiped out.

But all that happens is the network operator bars the IMEI number rendering the phone useless. And the criminals get away scott free. Is this a sign of how weak our bleed-heart society has made the law?

Golly, that’s on average at $12-13 a packet, 2300-2500 packets of cigarettes. Civic didn’t strike me as overly smokey. Guess they sold cigars and other exxy paraphernalia too?