Excellent news to hear a positive result for a change.
I'm not impressed by the Police though. Okay, not having a crack at the frontline general duties guys, and I don't want to get too sarky about the resources that are made available to the IRD arm of the Police. I do appreciate that the frontline have often got better things to do than data entry, but for God's sake someone in the organisation needs a firken rocket stuck somewhere uncomfortable for the pathetic way the organisation dealt with that. For one, no one loaded it as stolen onto the system - for how many weeks?? I'd think that would be a fairly important priority? How many non-stolen cars are used in committing serious offences?
And then the guys on the frontline who pulled it, obviously didn't make too harder an enquiry with the registered own when they saw it had no ignition barrel. Or did they not notice the missing barrel? Hmm...
In all seriousness, I'd be kicking up bobsy die about that shocker. Media, PCA, compensation demands. All very easy to blow out of all proportion, but as D50 said above, a stolen car is often the precurser to other crimes. Not to mention the fact that organisational incompetence led to your nephew being deprived of his hard earned asset for even longer.
Anyone remember a small error that someone made about Irena Asher?
"You, Madboy, are the Uncooked Pork Sausage of Sausage Beasts. With extra herbs."
- Jim2 c2006
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