Police are too interested with cyber crime, hate crime, big-boy crime. They have limited resources and have to concentrate and bang for buck. Take out the head, and its a coup: take out the tail and another grows tomorrow.
Fully agree. Many are from ex or existing war zones, are organised, disciplined (often through combat) and technically competent. They are industrialising high value burglary and theft. These are not the traditional low life chancers on smack that would commit random opportunistic thefts. Heard on the radio this morning that the Home Office will focus their efforts on this threat. May be too late for the OP and his awful experience, but its a start.
It's ok pal, call me anything you like I'm thick skinned Being a farmer (not of camels) I've heard all the jokes Don't worry pal, I'm a farmer, vegans love me, I've been called worse than a Nazi Maybe we should narrow it down to the Pikey variant of Gypsy as described below:
Shopping at Lidl? My wife's a Pikey!! Seriously, the whole situation is crap, I've been very lucky to date but still know of the concern others have when these 'crime waves' happen. Insurance money won't stop the anxiety caused by knowing somebody has broken into your property and can do it again
Sorry to hear of your losses Simon, when my car was found the shitbags at the 'security compound', where the car was taken on being recovered, stole all the contents immediately after it was fingerprinted (as evidenced by gloved 'dabs' on freshly fingerprinted areas). I went to collect the car while it was being fingerprinted, but was kept in a waiting room while a lad was sent to bring my car round - it was taking a bit too long so I walked up to the pound and met the kid walking back to the office wearing gloves and carrying a bin bag - the penny didn't drop immediately, but he'd cleared the car contents into the bin bag ... I still thank my lucky stars that I'd removed a genuine SilMotor 'spaghetti' system I'd bought from the boot the night before the car was stolen ... Fact of life: if you own nice things, toe rags will have their eyes on those things. They're not hunting around the scrubby, inner city wastelands for MOT failure Cortinas to steal, they're buzzing around your nicer residential areas looking for new, nicely polished swag. They can now pick up the transponder signal from the keyless fob to your car, or bike, from as far away as 30 metres, according to a warning leaflet we received 2 days ago, the signal is then relayed to another gadget that unlocks and starts the car/bike to be driven away. It advised keeping those fobs (plus the spares) in a tin - but then, I suppose that could make a home invasion potentially more likely.. My nephew was woken by their security light going on at 3.45am last Thursday last, he switched the light on and went to his window. His light switching on alerted the getaway driver who was staring up at my nephew as he looked out to see 3 balaclava'd types walk calmly from the driveway to the thieves' car and off they went. My brother in law has just bought a brand new Audi Q7, but being a highly paranoid belt n braces type bloke, he has one of those ugly great bright yellow steering wheel cover lock things that he fits every night and the police reckon that's what saved his car from being stolen on that night, one having gone from the next street instead... Boldmere, Sutton Coldfield
Just to give you a running commentary as to what happens in a stolen recovered case. Now we have been without a car since Monday, i have done a deal on a new car but cannot proceed until this is sorted ,mate runs a dealership and will loan us a car until new one arrives so we can be mobile again. I cant see this being sorted out quickly.So far the insurance company have been very good, I reported to the insurance company the car had been found and gave them all the details, this is there reply. That is good news. I have noted it on file and have given the location a call. They have informed me that the police still have the vehicle on hold so they can perform forensics which means we are going to have to wait for this to finish before we can get involved. Once the vehicle is off hold, we will recover the vehicle and transfer it to one of our garages to stop storage costs building. We will then be sending a field engineer to the location so that they can walk around the vehicle with you and discuss if there is any damage caused by the theft. Safety checks will need to be performed on the vehicle as the third party may have tampered with the vehicle. After all of these things have happened, we will be in touch with you regarding the need for repairs for your vehicle or the need to write the vehicle off, depending on the damage caused and your stance on keeping the vehicle.
No info on the car so everything is just guessing, worse case burnt out, best case parked up for cooling off days and unmarked, either way it wont be ours for long, both made our minds up on that one.
I work in South Africa from time to time. Guns and gated communities aside, estate patrols are the norm and are part of standard surcharges.
