Thread: Rifles stolen

In regards to Police not attending some burglaries, I don't think many realise how much volume of dishonesty crime is out there, how long it takes to investigate and how few officers there are. If there are no leads or areas where viable prints may be lifted then there is no reason to attend the scene so a report is taken over the phone.

In my town it is frontline staff that attend burglaries which some can't be attended during the day normally as most people are at work which just leaves late shifts for them. And because the frontline staff are responders, all it takes is any domestics, armed incident, disorders, shoplifters, pursuit etc to overtake any burglaries they would have attended put on top of that any prevention work and enquires they have to make. Burglaries are very hard to solve to top it off. I bet if there was twice as many frontline Police they would still be busy.

Ring your local station and ask how many General Duties 1st response Officers are on duty on the street covering your city at any one time, something like 1 Officer to every 5000 head of population. It sucks but that's what has happened in our current financial climate.