Maniac Drivers

we called out of hours and got through to kidlington call handlers,  they had no idea where we were and thought we were near thame  !

its a joke, dont expect TVP to turn up after dark....

 

Unfortunately like most of the public services they too have had budget cuts up to the eyeballs and struggle to attend most jobs where partners are being assaulted, drunk miscreants are having fights, people with mental health issues threatening to end their lives and so on. Maybe rather than bashing them you can do what I have done and go out with them on nights as an observer and see what it's like and see how much sh*t they have to pick up, it was a serious eye opener for this serial complainer.

To then think that the Police can turn out an Officer at peak busy drinking/ASB hours in an instant is fanciful to catch cars doing 100+mph in their piddly Vauxhall Astras! By the time you have called it in, the racers are probably in another town.

If you call 101, it's a non-emergency number, costs you 15p and gets graded a low call. You will be lucky if they come out in 24 hours if at all.

If it's an emergency, an element of danger or the crime is happening there and then, 999.

I know from talking to the officers that the local neighbourhood teams will be unstaffed from 10pm so you are going to be getting the Amersham based 999 response team out, or maybe even officers from Chiltern/South Bucks - Taplow. So yes thats why the neighbourhood teams run speed operations during the day, because at night they are at home.

Keep logging the calls, keep asking it to go to the neighbourhood teams for information, keep making the right noises because the Police work on stats, if you make them aware of the PROBLEM they HAVE to SOLVE IT they cannot ignore it.

Better yet, help them out and get registrations, descriptions of cars whatever, anything to help them.

Only if you are serving this all up on a platter for a good few months and the problem still persist should you have any cause for complaint and then you can speak to the IPCC.

If you never phone or only phone once every 2 months I think you need a reality check and should join your local Police team on a ride along. Bet you won't be bitchin after that and realise how ruined they have become after all the government cuts etc.