Hit and run - Police not interested.

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A friends son's car was sideswiped by another car last Friday evening, he managed to get the other car's registration and the make; a 2013 Kia of some sort or other.
The other driver stopped for a pause and then drove away, my friends son phoned the police who told him it wasn't a police matter and he should phone his insurance company.
Obviously this stinks, why would somebody in a new car drive away from an accident? Drink driving springs to my mind, and why are the police not interested in hit and run's? I'm not blaming the police on the ground but obviously there's been a decision made at higher levels to downgrade this kind of offence in favour of other crimes.
 
Hmmm

Failure to report an accident is an offence. Trust me I have just been through exactly this and ended up writing to the Police Commissioner for Kent.

By reporting an accident that can mean that both parties involved agree that the accident is in their hands and have exchanged the requisite details.

In my case the Police admitted that they had got it wrong and apologised. They then went round and charged the driver with driving with no insurance on the public highway.

This only happened after many calls and mails with the Police fell on deaf ears. A letter to the PCC and they were all over it within days.
 
Call the Police again, your friends son might not have explained the indicent clearly enough/the operater might not have understood correctly etc.
 
plod don't seem to care these days - more interested in carrying out plebgate lies, hilsboro cover ups, and cooking the books it would appear. Maybe the problem is far far greater than we know so far? Maybe give your local Police and Crime Commissioner a nudge - at the same time write to the IPCC and get your MP involved - takes a sledge hammer to crack a nut these days.
 
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plod don't seem to care these days - more interested in carrying out plebgate lies, hilsboro cover ups, and cooking the books it would appear. Maybe the problem is far far greater than we know so far? Maybe give your local Police and Crime Commissioner a nudge - at the same time write to the IPCC and get your MP involved - takes a sledge hammer to crack a nut these days.

Oh,they do care,but thanks to the government they are seriously depleted in
the ranks, can't blame the police,they generally try to do their best and I for
one thank them for it.
 
I know a traffic policeman , and you would not believe how low morale is in the police service at the moment :(
 
At the very least you need to call the Police again to get an incident number for your insurance claim.
 
Oh,they do care,but thanks to the government they are seriously depleted in
the ranks, can't blame the police,they generally try to do their best and I for
one thank them for it.

And yet they always seem to have the money and resources to buy, equip and man a nice new van which spends all of its time parked at the side of the road looking long and hard for drivers doing 38mph in a 30 zone.

They are members of a discredited profession in which any notion of good policing has long since been subverted by the desire to raise easy cash.
 
At the very least you need to call the Police again to get an incident number for your insurance claim.

.....and this is where my problems with the Police started. They insisted that it was my insurers who had to contact them via a "special" insurance hot line. I was not allowed to report it as I might just be making it up.... You know, as you do. What shall I do today. Oh I don't know... Errrr. Oh yes I will crash my car the call up the Police and blame somebody else, that should fill some free time up.

This was all recorded. When I did (after writing to the Police Commissioner) get the Police to speak to me as a human and somebody from planet idiot, they were by their own admission staggered. They blamed a lack of training and confusion between different offences. It is a great comfort to know about the lack of training and confusion over different offences that exists in our Police Force.

But for the OP and his friend this is a warning.

Oh. I also having insisted that they take me seriously, had to visit my local Police Station and produce my documents. This proved to them that I was not pretending to be me and simply giving them all my details in an effort to frame the guy who crashed into me, who's name and address and registration number they had been given by me.

It took the 4 months to finally visit and charge the guy who drove into me. He immediately pleased guilty. Another crime solved another statistic box ticked.

I thought about this when I had to insure my Pajero for the winter, MOT it and then Tax it. Why bother. I could just drive around for 4 months. If caught (away from Police Interceptors or any other Police telly prog) you will not have your car confiscated. They would not know it was yours. Just make up a fake name and address, that will foll them. Giving them a real name etc just causes confusion with the training.
 
In general, the police are just there to provide a visual representation to law abiding people that our government actually has any control over the people who are not law abiding.
 
It took the 4 months to finally visit and charge the guy who drove into..

If there were no injuries I'm amazed they charged him. I've heard of a few similar incidents and once the Police are satisified that contact details have been exchanged they take no further action.

I've seen it said that if there's any opportunity to call an ambulance then do so, as then the Police are contacted and will attend.
 
In general, the police are just there to provide a visual representation to law abiding people that our government actually has any control over the people who are not law abiding.

I am sorry but I don't understand that statement
For visual representation they have PCSO's,a cheap cost saving arm of the force
with extremely limited training and power,on saying that they are respected and
do a very good job under the circumstances.

CCTV is picking up most of the workload for officers in the field,and what the cameras are capturing is far greater than the availability of officers to respond,
so jobs have to be prioritised.With a shortage of manpower thanks to this shambles of a government, the police can't hope to achieve the response they
are capable of.
 
I know a traffic policeman , and you would not believe how low morale is in the police service at the moment :(

I have a pal who has just been made redundant by Lancashire Police thanks to cutbacks in budget. His job - mobile vehicle mechanic - covering the whole of the county. He had to have knowledge of all the specialist equipment fitted to police vehicles. Now there is no-one employed by Lancashire Police to do this job. It's been subbed out to an independent breakdown service - whose mechanics don't have the specialist equipment experience.

That means if a Police vehicle fails whilst in service, it now has to be towed or trailered in to the Police repair depot miles away, whereas before he could frequently fix it out on the road.

Might sound OK, but that instantly puts one/two/several Police officers out of action who now have to spend the rest of the day NOT doing the job they are paid to do.

Bonkers!
 
Our son is a beat police officer. You would not believe the modern day police SERVICE.

The "tick box" just about sums it up methinks. But that is not run by the officers on the beat. You have to look at who creates the boxes and why.
 
Our son is a beat police officer. You would not believe the modern day police SERVICE.

The "tick box" just about sums it up methinks. But that is not run by the officers on the beat. You have to look at who creates the boxes and why.


It is done for statistical reasons and for politicians so they can use and abuse said statistics:

"Lies, damned lies, and statistics"

The same thing is happening to education and the health service. Education is no longer about educating your child to meet the challenges of life as you cannot get statistics from that.
 
Education is no longer about educating your child to meet the challenges of life as you cannot get statistics from that.

So very true unfortunately. I recently resigned as a governor of a local primary school because I was getting so frustrated with the way that schools are treated by Ofsted. All they're interested in is gathering fundamentally unsound data and ticking those dreaded boxes. Because of the pressures put on them, all staff had no option other than to direct a massive proportion of their efforts away from educating their children and into completing countless and mainly pointless forms. They lived their lives in continual fear of Ofsted inspections so were unable to give the children the attention they needed and deserved. Every member of staff from the head down was fantastically dedicated, but they were all sinking further and further into the depths of despair knowing that a brief visit from an inspector who knew nothing about the school could slur them with a label of "requiring improvement". Hardly the best way to motivate someone to do a good job. The school couldn't afford to ignore Ofsted and get on with teaching. I got fed up trying to fight the system so had no option other than to get away from it.

Sorry for taking the thread off on a tangent. Rant over.
 
If there were no injuries I'm amazed they charged him. I've heard of a few similar incidents and once the Police are satisified that contact details have been exchanged they take no further action.

I've seen it said that if there's any opportunity to call an ambulance then do so, as then the Police are contacted and will attend.

Yup that's it basically.No injuries- Police not interested.
 
I had exactly the same situation a car cut across into my lane on the motorway forcing me almost into the central reservation and to brake hard but he still hit my N/S wheel and wing. Reported to the Police not interested and stated that if no one was hurt then they were not interested, and as I had the cars reg. no. then it was down to my insurance company to pursue.
So this does seem to be their general policy now to say I was shocked was an understatement, as others I believed leaving the scene of an accident regardless whether anyone was hurt or not was an offence that could result in prosecution.
 
Yup that's it basically.No injuries- Police not interested.

I think it's simpler than that - they're just not interested because its too hard for them to solve.

Years ago they could express their interest by handing out summary justice in the cells. But that's probably not so easy to get away with now.
 

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