Spoke a friend and fellow contractor last night. He's on a gig at an FE College. Last Thursday he had his mobile phone stolen from his desk. He rang security to ask them to check their CCTV to see if they had anything and they did appear to have a youth recorded hanging around at the time near where his office is (plus you could se the guy’s face on the camera image).
So he rang his mobile provider, informed them of what had happened and asked them to put a stop on the phone. They asked him to get a crime number from the police so the phone could be replaced under the provider’s customer insurance scheme.
He then rang the police, described what had happened and told them he had what appeared to be good CCTV evidence. To his astonishment, the police operator told him that they don’t record mobile phone thefts under current Home Office Guidance. The police still didn’t want to know when he advised them of the CCTV evidence. So now he cannot get his phone replaced for free because he cannot provide a crime number.
Moral? Don’t leave you’re mobile unattended, of course. But what’s more worrying is that so called ‘guidelines’ are preventing police from investigating crimes simply to keep the crime stats down.
The police? Leicestershire Constabulary – cheers guys, were all feeling a lot more safer now.
Welcome to Neu Leiber.
So he rang his mobile provider, informed them of what had happened and asked them to put a stop on the phone. They asked him to get a crime number from the police so the phone could be replaced under the provider’s customer insurance scheme.
He then rang the police, described what had happened and told them he had what appeared to be good CCTV evidence. To his astonishment, the police operator told him that they don’t record mobile phone thefts under current Home Office Guidance. The police still didn’t want to know when he advised them of the CCTV evidence. So now he cannot get his phone replaced for free because he cannot provide a crime number.
Moral? Don’t leave you’re mobile unattended, of course. But what’s more worrying is that so called ‘guidelines’ are preventing police from investigating crimes simply to keep the crime stats down.
The police? Leicestershire Constabulary – cheers guys, were all feeling a lot more safer now.
Welcome to Neu Leiber.
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