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My mate "Dave" received some unpleasant messages via whatapp and text, all from one person, to the point where he asked for a home visit from the Police to discuss his options.
The officer looked at said offending messages and advised Dave that he could go down the route of an harassment complaint, due to the nature of the messages.
In the first instance, Dave wasn't too keen on this, so the officer told Dave to block both whatsapp and text messages from said person - therefore enjoying no further visibility of incoming harassment.
All good regarding whatsapp, however, Dave's particular phone sends blocked text messages to an folder called "Blocked Messages", where they can be viewed - in other words, they still arrive at the phone.
Naturally, Dave would dip in and out of the blocked messages folder (as you would) and would see an increasing number of unpleasant messages.
Eventually, faced with the content of the blocked folder, Dave decided he was ready to go down the harassment route and went to make a formal complaint at the Police station.
The interviewing officer (a different person to the home visit officer) read all the texts in Dave's blocked messages folder, noted that they were very personal, very unpleasant and that some had been sent in the middle of the night, 3am, 4am etc. designed to deliberately wake up Dave and his good lady - thereby causing alarm and distress - the generally recognised harassment definition.
So, what do the panel think the Police decided to do about the formal complaint and what was their justification?
The officer looked at said offending messages and advised Dave that he could go down the route of an harassment complaint, due to the nature of the messages.
In the first instance, Dave wasn't too keen on this, so the officer told Dave to block both whatsapp and text messages from said person - therefore enjoying no further visibility of incoming harassment.
All good regarding whatsapp, however, Dave's particular phone sends blocked text messages to an folder called "Blocked Messages", where they can be viewed - in other words, they still arrive at the phone.
Naturally, Dave would dip in and out of the blocked messages folder (as you would) and would see an increasing number of unpleasant messages.
Eventually, faced with the content of the blocked folder, Dave decided he was ready to go down the harassment route and went to make a formal complaint at the Police station.
The interviewing officer (a different person to the home visit officer) read all the texts in Dave's blocked messages folder, noted that they were very personal, very unpleasant and that some had been sent in the middle of the night, 3am, 4am etc. designed to deliberately wake up Dave and his good lady - thereby causing alarm and distress - the generally recognised harassment definition.
So, what do the panel think the Police decided to do about the formal complaint and what was their justification?
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