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Similar thing happened to me earlier this year. Bike was stolen in Soho but popped up on Gumtree with a Shoreditch address. The Police at the City Road copshop did absolutely nothing to help me in spite of me having the name, mobile number and address of the thief/fencer and an agreed time and address to meet the little cunt! I was almost begging them to send a plain clothes officer out with me, but they were having none of it. I told them that I was going up there with some mates to sort it myself and all they could say was "...we strongly advise against that Sir".
Anyway, I rocked over there with two mates and almost got the bike away from them. Unfortuantely there were about 15 of the little fuckers complete ringfencing that part of the estate. We'd completely underestimated the situation - I thought it might be just two guys at most - so it was just a fucked situation we couldn't control and I was probably lucky not to get stabbed.
To add insult to injury I received a customer service call from the police a few days later, asking me to rate how I thought they'd handled my bike theft experience...