That's because it was a daft question. We both know not EVERY crime has to wait 2 hours for a response.

How do you know for sure that the police didn't have other incidents they were attending that were more serious?

It depends, was this happening between 1 & 3am when this crime took place?

I have heard this kind of story before and '2 hours' is the norm.
Convienient that eh.

I'll take that as you don't then.

I never said it did.
HTH.

Still '2 hours' is the norm.
I wonder how they always seem to know they will be free in '2 hours'.

Estimated average response times for non urgent issues/

That and it was right in the middle of tea break

Seems fair.

It does if you're a burgalar. Two hours is planty to clean out any room and make a clean getaway.

I wonder if it was the council building / councillors home that was being robbed with no danger to humans how long the response time would be.

Come on... It was a joke ... Lighten up!!

You're not even called Roverswall any more.

Opps.

It was an invite for a bun fight.

Look on the brightside it could have been worse

Just to derail further, I thin you're being [ivery[/i patient with Standee over on the Sin Bin.

Not really it is a nice sensible conversation which for standee is a first

Good god, it's like being on "The Comedians" in 1977 on here.

It's a good job my kegs got stolen, I'd have wet them several times over by now.

Obvious innit?...Hull supporters.

I was thinking that because who wud be awarded the game wudnt they if it cudnt go ahead

well never fear the show must go on

Not quite...


So basically Plod were told that the thieves had legged it, possibly without even managing to nick the cable. Little wonder the call was given a low priority.

Thats not true at all Anakin. The same goes for any member of the public. We all have a right to action a citizens arrest under section 24A of the Police and Criminal Evidence Act 1984. This one comes under something like "The person causing loss of or damage to property" But you have to be satisfied that an offence has being commited and that it's not reasonable for a constable to effect the arrest at that given time. Trying to remember back to my training but that was eight years ago.

Just knack 'em upside the head and get 'em back in't cells, that's the best course of action until you get Tasers.

I'd love to see a plastic policeman 'arrest' a group of gypsies stealing a cable, let's be honest, a grand scrap value? Not going to be little kids are they, If they are basing the grand scrap value as a 'stripped' price then it's well over 200kg, if they are basing it on unstripped then it's well over 800kg.

Last time the floodlight cable was stolen, I was told in the wholesalers by the company that were contracted to repair it, all the while the club denied it. When walking to the game that the weekend; there was cable striplings right down the track.