Just had a note from the door from Cambridge Police...for taking photographs!

Groucho said:
Baffles me why the police did not tell the neighbour that its perfectly legal to take a photograph in the street.:shrug:

Think i will make a complaint that my neighbour is walking down the street:cool:
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Yes, and how did this come to be recorded as an incident?

I wonder what the police would have done if the neighbour had been unable to ID the photographer .......... police cars / helicopter search?
 
with all the crime and things going on the police prioritise going around banging on you door at 10pm for takeing a photograph in the street.

the complainent should be given a warning and so should the police for not knowing the law and being ridiculous themselves

now i am of to report my neighbour hes wearing a loud shirt in a built up area...:lol:
 
Photo Plod said:
Unfortunately, some time ago, people decided that police officers were exercising too much discretion and ignoring their complaints. As a result, we got the National Crime Recording Standards, "Ethical Crime Recording", the Policing Pledge, and so on and so forth. What it essentially boils down to is that the police are obliged to bottom out almost every complaint or report made to them, however spurious or nonsensical. If we don't, and the original informant complains about a lack of action, we end up facing disciplinary action.
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Is very stupid now on how paranoid people are about things such as this and also how the police actually follow up half of this stuff.
 
this is by far one of the most ridiculous things i've heard, i was once told off for taking photo's in a shopping centre(bluewater) incase i was a terrorist and planning my attack!

Im 19, white male, broke with poor gcse's. im sure i have time brains and money to make a bomb and plan an attack..... :\
 
I guess your neighbour isn't aware of Google Maps Street View!

What a mindless moron. I despair of what's going on here, I really do :bang:
 
I fail to believe that the Police involved did not have the brains to inform the person making the complaint that it was a perfectly legal activity.

Still it's one more solved crime to add to the stats.
 
Just realised that Spotify is playing.....

Fun Boy Three - The Lunatics (Have taken Over The Asylum)

... While I am reading this thread


How apt
 
Sloper said:
I guess your neighbour isn't aware of Google Maps Street View! :
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i was going to say exactley the same thing... But ain't that done from a moving car...:shrug: Mmmmmm even more suspicious
 
mrbrightside said:
this is by far one of the most ridiculous things i've heard, i was once told off for taking photo's in a shopping centre(bluewater) incase i was a terrorist and planning my attack!

Im 19, white male, broke with poor gcse's. im sure i have time brains and money to make a bomb and plan an attack..... :\
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We've had this before - shopping-centres like Bluewater are not public places - they're Privately-Owned - the vendors pay a ground-rent to set-up there: the owners can do anything they like regarding photography withing the structure - you choose to go there and shop...no-one's forcing you to...

If you want to photograph there, apply in advance to the PR department (who will say 'no' in all liklihood - they have thier own image consultants after all).
 
Photo Plod said:
Unfortunately, some time ago, people decided that police officers were exercising too much discretion and ignoring their complaints. As a result, we got the National Crime Recording Standards, "Ethical Crime Recording", the Policing Pledge, and so on and so forth. What it essentially boils down to is that the police are obliged to bottom out almost every complaint or report made to them, however spurious or nonsensical. If we don't, and the original informant complains about a lack of action, we end up facing disciplinary action.
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But surely if it's not illegal then just explaining the fact is good enough?
 
Send this story to Richard Littlejohn at the Daily Mail, this is right up his street.

You couldn't make it up.:lol::lol::lol::lol::lol::lol:
 
fabs said:
I believe Photoplod already answered that one. ;)
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I know, doesn't stop me failing to believe that they have to follow up complaints of lawful activity taking place ... must make his job a nightmare
 
What are the police supposed to do then? Somebody reports what they think is suspicious behaviour, admitedly somewhat paranoid, so the police follow it up and that is that :shrug:

If you'd had your house broken into and later found out that the gippos had been snooping about but nobody bothered to report it, you'd have every right to be upset.

But not this! Some people are just paranoid. They don't answer the door after 10pm...
 
Proposterous, next you will be getting arrested for selling goldfish.:eek::eek:
 
Reckon the old bill are going to be rather busy in Cambridge this summer then with all those camera toting tourists taking pictures of anything and everything.

Pity they can't nick a few of those punt touts, much more of a nuisance than an innocent photographer
(sorry, but detest those scavangers who bother me every day on my way home down Bridge Street)
 
puddleduck said:
What is even more funny is that when I asked why the someone was bashing hell out of my door last night at nearly 10pm, the WPC said they thought someone deaf might live there..! :lol:
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Pardon? :lol:

Barney

P.S. Makes me SO glad I live in the country with no near neighbours!
 
Martyn... said:
I know, doesn't stop me failing to believe that they have to follow up complaints of lawful activity taking place ... must make his job a nightmare
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So you think the neighbour just called the police say that someone was taking photographs? Or might it just be possible that the story they gave might have been a little embellished? Sometimes the police have no choice but to follow a complaint up, they don't have the benefit of weighing things up on an internet forum afterwards.
 
The police have to follow everything up.

I imagine they got some laughs though out of it.
 
taz said:
But surely if it's not illegal then just explaining the fact is good enough?
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Exactly. Not only does it close down the complaint but it (hopefully) prevents the police having to repeat the waste of time from the complainant. Now they are likely to continue to report such nonsense and waste even more of peoples time.
Fill in the paperwork with "explained to complainant that their neighbour is not committing any crime" - job done and further pointless jobs avoided.
 
fabs said:
So you think the neighbour just called the police say that someone was taking photographs? Or might it just be possible that the story they gave might have been a little embellished? Sometimes the police have no choice but to follow a complaint up, they don't have the benefit of weighing things up on an internet forum afterwards.
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Don't be so sensible Marc. This is (yet another) serious case of photographers being persecuted.
 
should have said you work for google street'
 
donky7 said:
should have said you work for google street'
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No...you should have told them you work for the Vory v Zakone (Russian-Mafia) and would come back and kill him, his wife and their children using blunt knives and axes.
Then kill all his extended family, friends and all their children too...

Let's not go soft on these idiots, please...it just encourages more stupidity.

PhotoPlod: please look away...
Look through all the back-episodes of CSI on how to cover your tracks...
 
:lol:

It's mostly the Media's fault, all the mind games and dumb little bits of information they make out to be the biggest problem in the world!! suppose they have to make their money at the the end of the day


Didn't the Police give you the smallest of apologizes for the banging at your door at 10pm when you brought it up?
 
fabs said:
So you think the neighbour just called the police say that someone was taking photographs? Or might it just be possible that the story they gave might have been a little embellished? Sometimes the police have no choice but to follow a complaint up, they don't have the benefit of weighing things up on an internet forum afterwards.
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Very true, however it is what Andy stated he was told by the WPC.
 
Sounds like they should be nominated for the Darwin Award!

:lol:


The person who complained I mean!
 
The old Bill are just trying to do their job, really. In my line of work, we sell equipment at a premium price - and the funny thing is, customers are happy to pay that price, because us humans are such a gullible lot. I don't agree with it, but my job allows me to feed and clothe myself, and I try to keep my head down.
 
Cambridgeshire Constabulary - making Cambridgeshire safer........by persecuting an innocent photographer, you have to laugh at the stupidity of this nanny state:cuckoo:
 
bain said:
next time wear a hi-viz jacket with Google writting on it ..they seem to get away with it it's a sad state of affairs though,,
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I am so going to actually do this..
 
I know we constantly hear about paedophiles and terrorists but I also think people are beginning to think they have "rights", the right to stop you taking a photo of their car, the right prevent photography in "their" street (yours as well, I know). This hyper-vigilance cant just be for the protection of the realm and its younger subjects!
 
To be honest what really annoys me is that when mine and five others neighbours garages were broken into, we all called the police to report it, we were all given crime numbers but no one ever visited and about five weeks later a knock at the door and the was a dibbleman there to ask if we had heard anything further about the break ins. When I said no, he said it was unlikely they would catch the people and to put it down to experience.

Another time about 4am in the morning I heard a noise outside and on looking out of the window I saw a group of youths trying car doors walking up and down the street, I called 999 and reported it and continued to watch them make their way up the street for about another 20 minutes. I never saw any police drive up or down the street and then went back to bed. About 30 minutes later (after just having got back to sleep) the phone rang, and it was someone from the police asking if the youths were still in the vicinity. Bunch of ******s!

I have no time what so ever for the police and knowing a few (my best mate was one and my brother in law is one) and some of the things they do/have done are certainly not within the law. Amazing what you can get away with when you flash your warrant card!
 
Theiving little scumbags who keep trying to pinch the lead off our coal cellar roof don't get followed up on at all. Does anyone from TP fancy a nightime meet in our street?
 
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