A question to any cops here

[Mom]

Well hes driving around in a stolen car so not sure why they haven't seen him. They checked at his addy's suposedly and hes not there so I don't know.

Just keep on doing what you are doing mate. Sorry you are getting such a bunch of crap at the moment.

[Patrick]

Well hes driving around in a stolen car so not sure why they haven't seen him. They checked at his addy's suposedly and hes not there so I don't know.

So if he isn't there, where do you suggeast they look?

Just to make this clear this isn't a thread to bag on cops for what ever reason. I just had a question to ask. That said, thanks for your reply's I just wanted to make sure any cops that view the thread don't think I'm trying to give them shit and don't reply

Had me thinking it was....

When I worked up in Auckland, we would print off a list of stolen vehicles, daily. Do you have any idea how many are on that list, just for each day?

And how many are still missing? (Clue - in the thousands.....)

Hundreds of thousands of vehicles move around Auckland daily. Finding a moving needle in a haystack on a conveyor belt is a piece of piss....

[firefighter]

Something a bit more argo and hard looking as well - maybe a bit more Matrix. Yeah something to demand respect - you know when they get out of their vehicle and walk towards you you'll think 'oh shit' and suck in it.
Merry Christmas to all KB cops.

Las Vegas style black ones, with a gun and a taser, tell you what on my ride along no-one fucked with the guy I was with.......he looked the part big time, was swearing on everything that I could I was going to join the Las Vegas Metro after that.......!!

[wbks]

Well what you said would be enough to shut me up if it wasn't for these two things:
1) He has repeatedly waited in the stolen car outside my sis' workplace which is about 20 meters from the local police station.
2)Owns a house he is probably staying at in another place in auckland but no one has bothered to go and check there.
So aside from you thinking I am criticising the police (which I'm not) my question was: Do you actually go looking around places for the people who have been reportedly robbing houses/assaulting people/stealing cars etc or do you just wait for them to drive past your patrol car or wait for people to call 111 on them? Is that so hard to answer?

[MadDuck]

Do you actually go looking around places for the people who have been reportedly robbing houses/assaulting people/stealing cars etc or do you just wait for them to drive past your patrol car or wait for people to call 111 on them? Is that so hard to answer?

Auckland is a big and busy place. My understanding is that they need to have a call from an 'informant' before they can act.

[Fatjim]

Mate, if he shows up and there's the remotest possibility that he has a firearm make sure you mention it on the 111 call. I guarantee that you will get a response. Oh, and mention he sped of doing donuts without wearing his seatbelt and he looked intoxicated, just in case the OAS is busy.

[pete376403]

Tell them not to bother, you've taken the law into your own hands and dealt to the offender yourself. They'll be round in minutes.

[98tls]

Try sitting in a court for an afternoon.

I did it the other day in Auckland.

The police nick these vermin.. and they get bailed. To reoffend.. even if they're on bail and they reoffend.. the police bring them back into court.. and they get bailed again. WTF is the point of the police arresting them?

These are people whose whole life revolves around criminal activity. Not just the odd red light jumped.. but their WHOLE LIFE. And they get sent back into the community.

Absolutly correct.Will add that at this time of year every fuck head and his dog is ringing 111 so cops who would normally be doing worthwhile shit have to attend endless domestic incidents.

[samgab]

What I suggest, is next time you know he's sitting in the stolen car outside your sister's work go there, get obs on him, and call 111. Give the rego and say you're watching the car right now, it's happening NOW. (Not last week or yesterday or an hour ago, NOW). The calltaker will check the REGO, and if it really has been reported stolen, they'll make it a high priority job, because it's happening NOW. That is the real key point I want to drive home- happening right now. Advise the call taker that you will keep obs on the stolen vehicle till police arrive. If he drives off, follow, if you can do so keeping to the speed limit, of course. Stay on the 111 (or *555) call and keep the calltaker updated with clear direction of travel, side streets you pass, and turns taken.
Don't go into all the historical stuff with the call taker. Stick to the one issue that is happening right now. They don't need to know all the history and a hundred other things about this person. That will all come up when they catch up with him for the one thing he's doing NOW, eg, driving a stolen car. The police that end up pulling him over will do a person query, and everything else will be flagged.

That's how to go about it if you really want some action on it.

[awayatc]

Have a mate who found a fast way of getting to the front of the que in getting the poliese's attention fast....very fast.

After ringing them and getting no joy about vandalism at his lifestyle property, he rang 111 calmly, and said he was opening his guncabinet as he was talking to them on the phone,loading his shotgun, and told the 111 operator that it depended on the time it would take to respond wether they should send the police or an ambulance....

Police got there in record time....

[devnull]

Best way to sort out scumbags is a firearm and a posthole borer

Put them in a hole after you've shot them and plant a tree on top.
By using them as fertiliser, they'll have done at least 1 good thing in their otherwise useless existance

[wbks]

have to attend endless domestic incidents.

Like what I'm describing? I get pretty pissed, too when people call 111 over someone doing skids down their road or letting their dog shit on their lawn but you don't have to in the middle of genocide to call 111

[Pixie]

Well what you said would be enough to shut me up if it wasn't for these two things:
1) He has repeatedly waited in the stolen car outside my sis' workplace which is about 20 meters from the local police station.
2)Owns a house he is probably staying at in another place in auckland but no one has bothered to go and check there.
So aside from you thinking I am criticising the police (which I'm not) my question was: Do you actually go looking around places for the people who have been reportedly robbing houses/assaulting people/stealing cars etc or do you just wait for them to drive past your patrol car or wait for people to call 111 on them? Is that so hard to answer?

Call 111 and they'll send a taxi after him

[Patrick]

Like what I'm describing? I get pretty pissed, too when people call 111 over someone doing skids down their road or letting their dog shit on their lawn but you don't have to in the middle of genocide to call 111

You should hear what gets called in for 111 calls. People wanting to know the lotto numbers, the time, can you call a taxi for me, the list is endless....

Call 111 and they'll send a taxi after him

Yep. After the Asher thing, cops are way too busy in Auckland playing taxi for the drunk/drugged idjits to be out there attending to crime in your neighbourhood.....

[wbks]

While this thread is still going, let me get this strait: You (police) can only go looking for people in response for a recent 111 call or something incredibly serious, not just threats and assaults? Ok I get it now. I'm still a little worried that by the time cops get there shit has already happened. Took 30 mins last time to come and the offender had already done what he wanted to do and left.