Police across England and Wales have failed to solve a staggering three in every four domestic burglaries, leaving thousands of victims without justice. The Mail has the details.
Police failed to solve a staggering 31,980 domestic burglaries – three in every four – across England and Wales in the three months leading up to June this year, it can be revealed.
New data from the Home Office has revealed that the majority of perpetrators are getting away with the crime, which carries a maximum sentence of 14 years in custody.
Homeowners in typically richer suburban areas are being disproportionately hit, the figures reveal.
The Liberal Democrats, who uncovered the data, branded the figures a “national scandal” and called on ministers to guarantee all domestic burglaries are attended to and investigated.
They have also blamed the previous Conservative Government for reducing the number of Police Community Support Officers (PCSOs) by 4,500 since 2015. …
National policing guidance issued last year says officers should prioritise attending the scene of a domestic break-in within an hour of the report, increasing the chances of solving the case.
In 2023, former Home Secretary Suella Braverman said every force must investigate every theft and follow all reasonable leads to catch offenders.
But the Police Federation, which represents 145,000 police officers in England and Wales, said at the time that forces simply don’t have enough resources to render such a promise viable.
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I wouldn’t even bother telling the police if I got burgled. I don’t have insurance so wouldn’t need an incident number. No point in reporting any crime I expect. It is obvious that the crime would not be solved and even if it was then who cares. They wouldn’t get locked up and so would be free to carry on burgling anyway.
As has been said countless times, they are too busy investigating online non-crime hate incidents to worry about real crime. It takes too much leg-work and thought to investigate, let alone solve, real crimes.
There was a famous police blogger who wrote under the name of “David Copperfield” back in the 2000s, who explained more about how and why this has been allowed to happen. Being a traditional bobby is the lowest of the low in today’s police culture.
The way to get on is to find yourself a job with a specialist squad (e.g. “Hate Crime”, “Online Harm” etc.) which will be largely office-based and which will allow you to work normal office hours, network effectively and be the first to see exciting new opportunities posted on the notice board.
When you appreciate this, you can see why there’s no-one available to come round and investigate domestic burglaries. (DC’s book, “Wasting Police Time” was an excellent if depressing read. https://www.amazon.co.uk/Wasting-Police-Time-Crazy-World/dp/0955285410)
Well, P.C. White Fang solved mine by hunting down and cornering the burglar who was swiftly packed off to jail.
Then home for tea and treble bonios all round.
Couldn’t agree more with you on this one, Monro. Protect your assets. With wild animals if possible.
It seems the ambulance staff are also failing in their duty to attend emergencies in a timely manner. If somebody of advanced aged breaking their hip outside in the freezing cold doesn’t constitute a ”priority” I don’t know what does! The problem is, in this particular scenario, you can’t just move somebody and bundle them into a taxi, as with a different broken bone. Do you think they react faster when somebody has a stroke or cardiac arrest, where time really is of the essence in getting to a medic? Is our resident paramedic still here to shine some light on this appalling situation?
”A 95-year-old woman told onlookers ‘I’m going to die here tonight’ after being left on the freezing pavement with a broken hip for five hours because ambulance chiefs told her she ‘was not a priority’.
Winifred Soanes was unable to move due to the pain she was in, after falling over in Christchurch High Street, Dorset, at 2.30pm while out her 92-year-old husband Andrew.
Despite multiple concerned members of the public making repeated 999 calls for an ambulance, explaining Winifred was elderly and vulnerable, they were told she ‘was not a priority’.
Passing Good Samaritans managed to prop her head up with shoe boxes from market stallholders and a pillow from a nearby pub.
Staff at Mountain Warehouse provided her with sleeping bags and charity shops gave blankets and hot water bottles to keep Winifred warm while she waited.
Others provided coffee and food to help Andrew, who is an army veteran and diabetic and who refused to leave his wife’s side.
An ambulance eventually arrived at 7.45pm on Monday and took Winifred to hospital where she remains under supervision.
To add insult to injury, Andrew developed a chest infection as a result of being out in the cold so long and cannot visit his wife in hospital.”
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-14143507/woman-freezing-pavement-broken-hip-waiting-ambulance.html
I weep for this country
Triage: the process of sorting victims, as of a battle or disaster, to determine medical priority in order to increase the number of survivors.
All resources are scarce so need rationing one way or another.
For example: who is more likely to survive, a 12 year old road traffic casualty, a 50 year old signs of stroke, or the elderly woman in the story?
Who is priority? Who is most likely to survive from quick attention? That’s the reality.
The ambulance service being State-run is underfunded and therefore lacks necessary resources.
Until the British people understand the State-run NHS, never has had, never will have the same level of investment, resources, and quality of treatment or incentives as a for-profit service in the competitive private sector, then “our” NHS will continue as is no matter how many more £billions are thrown at it, or foreign cheap labour recruited to staff it.
It’s your choice folks.
Theres got to be a heap of inefficiencies in there as well surely… it was Dorset, not the big city… and even if triage says she’s last on the list, it’s still not right. Someone that age should be looked after as best we can no matter what, even if a 12 yo has to suffer a bit more pain, which they are well able to cope with and recover from
“But the Police Federation, which represents 145,000 police officers in England and Wales, said at the time that forces simply don’t have enough resources to render such a promise viable.”
Let me give the Police Federation a tip on management – reallocate resources.
Hurty words and tweets and wokey do not require
resourcesstaff, burglaries do. With that essential management tip all theresourcesstaff required will miraculously be revealed. Now jog on.Surely it’s nowt to do with the police federation is it – it’s down to police senior management?
It is everything. The trains, the shops, everything. A lon ongoing degradation that has accelerated over the last four years, It isn’t just that things don’t work anymore or that the funding has been sucked out by the parasite class. The people have changed, maybe it was the vaxx who knows. The way people dress has gotten worse very rapidly for example and you don’t see many people walking about with a rosy and optimistic glow about them. Even the food seems more sinister. And obviously the disastrous effects on wellbeing of the weather over the last eighteen months. It is a full spectrum attack.
Welcome to the 1970s – high taxes, strikes, profligate Government spending, high inflation, power cuts (just wait), increasing unemployment, businesses closing, Brain Drain, the rich leaving, general feeling of gloom and doom.
Oh and of course a Labour Government.
I used to believe the police were short of staff and would have supported increasing numbers, even in excess of that maybe necessary, as one never saw them on patrol;until the first day of lockdown. Suddenly police in numbers appeared to patrol the parks with lots of shiny new vehicles I had not seen before; and have not seen since lockdown ended.
A population can become demoralised in such a way that the only dubious pleasure that it can be granted is the assuaging of the fear of financial insecurity, or the dopamine rush of a quick buck hence the fact that the lackeys of the system tend to carry on until the bitter end. When I came to this country one of the great things about it was that money was seen as something tawdry and not to be mentioned. It didn’t matter that much. The average worker now has to watch what he puts in his shopping trolley. The idea of owning land or even a house is bitterly laughable to him. But still he sits counting his pennies hoping that his job is secure. This is infinitely worse than abject slavery.
The more crimes that are unsolved induces a complacency in the authorities now, that we didn’t have previously. It also encourages more people to engage in criminal activity. We have a report today that says that 20,000 invaders have crossed the channel since we had the misfortune to elect a Liebour Gummint. How many of those will engage in criminal activity? We will become like Germany sooner now ….
Research by the newspaper BILD shows a total of almost 146,000 criminals are wanted in Germany with an arrest warrant, including 821 murderers. Almost 1,500 people are wanted for attempted murder or manslaughter, another 1,800 for rapes or sexual assault. Similarly, 15,000 thieves are also at large.