Bungling police stumble across stolen bikes
One owner's misfortune leads to bike thief's lair
HARINGEY police have seized nine stolen mototorcyles in a lock-up, despite initially being uninterested in the case.
When Sam Jackson had his R6 stolen from outside his house in Enfield, he alerted the local police and told them his Acutrac device could pin-point where the motorcycle was. The police didn't take any action and later that day Jackson could see the bike on the move again.
Frustrated with a lack of action, Jackson told his story to local newspaper Enfield Independent who ran an article highlighting his plight. Haringey Police then assigned a new officer to the case who followed the tracker's trail to a row of containers in Edmonton, North London.
When the police opened the containers they not only found Jackson's R6 but also another eight stolen motorcycles.
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Had same type of issue years ago, bike nicked, mate told me a suspicious one turned up close to his house looked like mine, false plate on it, took me 4 visits to plod to convince them to even run the plate, which showed up as proper to a lorry..... they then went and waited for the guy to turn up at his house, after i supplied the address the bike was parked up at, nicked him, recovered bike, insurance covered repairs. Lad riding it got a slap on the wrist for receiving/handling.
Makes a case for handling it yourself outside of the law really.
Posted: 13/12/2011 at 13:30
Just to add an insight to the story, the new officer assigned to the case spoke with Acutrac who explained how they had tracked Sam's bike from the moment it was nicked and then told him which of the many containers on the site was the most likely to contain the bikes, it was only then they decided to raid it.
Short of slapping the cuffs on, Acutrac did the Police's job for them.
Posted: 13/12/2011 at 15:50
If you're speeding you get the Police attention, but get your Bike nicked, they don't move a single finger. Who can trust them?
I don't.
Posted: 13/12/2011 at 21:45
lol on Acutrac's news page:
"By working with the Police, Acutrac not only pinpointed a stolen vehicle, but the Police also recovered 8 other stolen motorcycles"
I think the words "working with the Police" is the odd bit out in this sentence. Should read:
"Acutrac not only pinpointed a stolen vehicle, but also recovered 8 other stolen motorcycles"
:)
Posted: 14/12/2011 at 11:49
Is it any wonder why the Police have such a low reputation as crime solvers, nicking speeding motorists is childsplay, NPR again technology doing their job.
My daughter was assaulted by 2 pissed up lads, we spoke to the club owners who said they had the culprits on cctv, I rang local plod and explained that they needed to get there sharpish as the hard drive cleans itself every few days, did they go ?
wellwhat do you think
...Wan**rs
Posted: 14/12/2011 at 13:26
Not surprised, I had a bike stolen once, reported it all to the police, Insurance paid out, 6mths later I got a letter from the DVLA asking if I had sold the bike as someone was trying to re register it. So clearly the police nor the insurance company informed the DVLA the bike had been stolen. I contacted the police and they asked me to hand in the letter, now I would have thought that would have been a pretty simple piece of police work, after all the DVLA had the details on the person wishing to register it, but no they just filed it under "B", how do I know? 6mths after that a work mate bought it out the paper, same reg plate and everything! I told him it might be a good idea to flog it on, not until after I sold him some bits for it I still had in my garage though.LOL
Posted: 14/12/2011 at 14:48
Why are any of us surprised by the Olympic level of laziness and buffoonery shown by these idiots on a day to day basis...
(I am talking about pc plod here, not the thieving bastards who nicked all these bikes)...
Posted: 15/12/2011 at 14:27
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