What is CCTV for?
 

On Sep 12, 12:23 pm, Mizter T wrote:
On 11 Sep, 18:49, James Farrar wrote:

On Tue, 11 Sep 2007 06:26:15 -0700, Jim Gemineye

wrote:
That link should have been...
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/pages/liv...s.html?in_arti...

It's no wonder they couldn't get any help from that police station!

I shall explain James' comment for those who (scandalously!) might not
be up to date with the policing situation in Lewisham.

That is Ladywell police station - and it is now closed, replaced by
the vast new Lewisham Police station in Lewisham town centre, opened
as part of a rationalisation of policing in the borough of Lewisham.

I am a bit surprised that no coppers could be rustled out from within
the big new police station to help out. That said, perhaps those
allocated to being on patrol on the streets were in fact doing just
that - nonetheless you'd hope that a few officers sat round their
desks might relish the opportunity to go out and nick someone right
outside their front door.

The bit about the data protection laws preventing the release of the
CCTV is obviously about the bus company not releasing it to the
newspaper - of course the police would have (unrestricted) access to
it.

I know the Daily Mail's raison d'etre is to get people steamed up
about things, so I'm always cautious when confronting a story such as
this. Nonetheless the whole situation does all sound a bit of a
shambles - a bus driver who did the right thing and was keen to deal
with the crack-smokers on his bus didn't get the assistance he needed
from the police despite pulling up outside a large police station.



In the past when I've tried to report crimes by telephone, I've been
told that the only way to report it is to go to a police station.

Now it seems that if you go to a police station, they tell you that
the only way to report it is to phone it in.

Maybe you have to say "Simon says" or something.

What is CCTV for?
 

In message . com, MIG
writes
In the past when I've tried to report crimes by telephone, I've been
told that the only way to report it is to go to a police station.

Now it seems that if you go to a police station, they tell you that the
only way to report it is to phone it in.

Maybe you have to say "Simon says" or something.

I went to a police station in rural Warwickshire once to report a fallen
tree on a main road. The police station was closed but there was a
telephone. When I used that to report the incident, including the road
number and the distance in metres north of a disused railway bridge, the
person on the other end of the line asked if I had a postcode for that!
--
Ian Jelf, MITG
Birmingham, UK

Registered Blue Badge Tourist Guide for London and the Heart of England
http://www.bluebadge.demon.co.uk

What is CCTV for?
 

On Thu, 13 Sep 2007 21:39:59 +0100, Ian Jelf
wrote:

I went to a police station in rural Warwickshire once to report a fallen
tree on a main road. The police station was closed but there was a
telephone. When I used that to report the incident, including the road
number and the distance in metres north of a disused railway bridge, the
person on the other end of the line asked if I had a postcode for that!

I had a slightly similar experience with the AA once: years ago, and
before mobile phones (at any rate before mobile phones that I could
afford, so I had to use a payphone in the station) my car broke down
outside Hatton Cross tube. I assumed that this would be a precise
enough description for the AA to find me, but they insisted on either
a postcode or a street address

Martin