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I understand your difficulties in telling it as it is, as opposed to what you are allowed to say.....I have the same worries sometimes!
The fact remains though, that stealing a bike is against the law, yet time after time, no action is taken by the people who are responsible for upholding the law. I know it's not the rank and file who make these decisions, and I know it's not the senior officer's fault, for having to make cuts, due to the Tories insistance on creating permanent solutions for temporary problems.
At the same time, I can absolutely understand how people take the matter (law) into their own hands.
If it's yellow, has a bill and goes quack, it's probably a duck. If that duck nicks my bike, and I can have a go at getting it back, it better be a double hard duck. -
Thanks, Kieran--obviously no apology required. I've followed this work for nearly twenty years and have seen numerous stop-start attempts end before they could take proper root in police work. Often it was the initiative of individual officers, and usually there were significant successes, before such work was derailed again by some kind of reallocation of funding/budget squeezes/officers moving on etc. There's no doubt in my mind that the Cycle Crime Task Force was the best such effort yet and I just hope that there will be a future for it and that those who worked on it will maintain their enthusiasm for tackling these problems in the possible event of it being re-established, so that all the learning isn't lost. Thanks for your work.
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Bit of a corporate answer but:
I often read stories where the victims of theft/fraud confront the suspects and sometimes manage to retrieve their possessions. I would urge people to think twice before contacting/confronting these people as it can have tragic consequences but to contact the police with the information.
That said, I do recognise the strain the Police service are under and can only apologise that the service which is needed cannot always be provided but no bike is worth serious injury or death.