Moped-enabled crime

Ride a bike that's crazy tall, nobody will be able to ride it make it worthless.

Ah, OK, so no pannier snatches without an accompanying bike snatch. I didn't put that well earlier.

Funny you should say that!

Wasn't the official advice that whenever you see pillioned mopeds acting suspiciously, to call 999?

At least 101. Twitter is not the place to report things to the police

Only way I can do it; tweet them.

https://www.met.police.uk/report/how-to-report-a-crime/

Not everyone can use an audio phone my man.

See my reply above.

What he meant is this;

Is it an emergency?

Does it feel like the situation could get heated or violent very soon? Is someone in immediate >danger? Do you need support right away? If so, please call 999 now.

When I was assaulted, I couldn't call, and there was no one about, so after 15 minutes to recover, I end up limping it to the nearest police station in Peckham to report it.

No I understand that but twitter is social media, it is for conversations and announcements, not for reporting crimes. The staff that deal with manning twitter are not going to be the same ones taking reports. If you can't report it on the phone, you unfortunately will have to visit a station I guess.
How can you report an assault in 140 characters?

Thank god they're wearing high-viz!

It's more astonishing people who actually harm others without thinking.

I wish for a house of solid gold, doesn't mean it's gonna happen. If someone actually harms another person though then all bets are off - it's defending yourself or your property.

just wondering if anyone's taken precautionary measures yet

No.

Isn't that what already happened in 2012 when LFGSS went full roadie? 8)

That's almost as many times as someone has tried to drive over the top of me in a given year. Maybe I should be concerned about those scooter louts... le not.

I look poor but not slow. Surely this is a better strategy?
Or do you mean look slow but not actually be slow?
"Sleeper" bikes all the rage... DA buttons hidden in Sora shifters... special thigh-circumference reducing colour schemes on kit... aerodynamic farings made to look like welded-on gussets for that 'snapped frame' look.

Don't forget your tallbike jousting stick...

visit a station

Recent MOPAC public consultation, (How can we convince the Citizenry that one Police Station per London Borough is adequate), was based upon the declining number of visits to 'front desks'.
(Nothing to do with, say zero provision for traffic patrol officers requiring likely lookers to show tax & insurance within 7 days, or the myriad of other uses a Police Station used to have, before, say in the case of Ruislip Police Station, it went to volunteers 'manning' it, only over lunchtime).

Last time I went to my local one it was closed.

Handy

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Not me!

The upshot of the MOPAC consultation is that in the London Borough of Hillingdon,
we will shortly have only the one Police station, in Hayes, the extreme south of the borough.

At the public meeting, a map was displayed, showing estimated response times.
'This area will have a maximum 30 minute reponse time.
This area will have a maximum 60 minute response time' (cue gasps from the public).

'What about that bit of the borough to the north of the 60 minute response time?'

This bit of the map remained resolutely un-colour indicated. Evidently the software used had been set up for the possibility that a London Borough could have such an overloaded road system that the response time could exceed 60 minutes.

Nothing to do with the fact that the police stations in Ruislip, (built early '60s, approx 1/2 acre), or Uxbridge, (new in the late '80s/early'90s, again approx 1/2 acre) can be sold for housing much more easily than the site in Hayes.

Look out also for the 'Tri-Borough' plan, where Borough Commanders are down-numbered, and the remaining are tasked with policing three boroughs, (from one Police station?).

this is my strategy.

My routes just go along awful roads where any possible mugger taking concentration off the traffic to put attention on me even for a few moments results in death/injury. No canal paths or anything.

Canal paths are no guarantee of safety. If you lived on the water, you'd know how bad things are there at the moment - we're seeing a huge spike in burglaries, vandalism, muggings and beatings, particularly on the canals. I'm in a secure marina, and we've had 3 incidents in the past week of actual or threatened violence to boaters outside the gates.

Does much of it get reported and/or followed up by plod?

Is this Springfield Park?

I'm at Limehouse, but I've seen a fair few reports at Springfield - everyone's talking about the importance of reporting it to plod, but I've seen fuck all about anything being done my them. There's nuff hot air about patrolling the hotspots with mooring pins and hammers.