Police time.

Mondo74 said:
It's clear that some people can't grasp the fairly simple concept that some calls will get more attention than others based on how the initial report is perceived.

Cops will drop everything to go to a call where its perceived life could be in danger or there's an ongoing high value theft or whatever. This means that in all likelihood cops will be in the middle of dealing with an overwhelming list of jobs and will have to abandon those to deal with something like the call above. Nobody has a clue what they're going to until they get there. If the owner of the shop called in saying something like 'hi, we're a high value establishment and somebody is going berserk in the shop' then of course it gets a rapid response to all units. Every unit will make their way there until the facts have been established and the proportionality has been judged.

Sounds like people should be grateful not critical!!!
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what I actually stated that we were closed at the time. The last customer had left, the frount door locked and security procedures to secure valuables were now under way, she couldn't get in, but refused to go away. noone saw her as a threat, more of a bother
In a totally unrelated incident where another female fruitcake got into an argument over inability to pay for a takeaway she ordered and assaulted the delivery driver, the incident was covered by one policewoman
 
kennethwfd said:
True in the case of the OP but to repeat five squad cars and a total of ten officers to advise one woman that we are now closed and cannot reopen to serve her because of security devices does seem rather OTT
Bet she felt a right plonker as squad car after squad car turned up.
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Tbh calling the police in the first place was a tad OTT imo.
You've said yourself no one felt threatened, just bothered.
 
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viv1969 said:
Tbh calling the police in the first place was a tad OTT imo.
You've said yourself no one felt threatened, just bothered.
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Exactly. But I'm pretty sure when the call was made it would have sounded like something far more serious. Hence the emergency response.
 
I love this joke and some how its relevant too ;)

A man was going to bed one night when his wife told him that he had left the light on in the shed.
She could see the light was on from the bedroom window. As the man looked for himself he saw that there were people in the shed taking things.

The man phoned the police, but they told him that no one was in the area to help him at that time, but they would send someone over as soon as they were available.

He said "OK," hung up, and waited one minute, then phoned the police back.
"Hello" he said, "I just called you a minute ago because there were people in my shed. Well, you don't have to worry about them now 'cause I've shot them."

Within 2 minutes there were half a dozen police cars in the area, an Armed Response unit, the works.
Of course, they caught the burglars red-handed.

One of the officers said: "I thought you said that you shot them!"
The man replied, "I thought you said there was nobody available!"
 
Aye - the old ones are the best [emoji3][emoji3]

It's no different to the crumbling Ambulance Service. Phone them to say you've cut your finger and they'll tell you there's nobody available and it will be quite true - all crews will be dealing with more serious matters. Tell them there's a multiple pile up on the M (insert nearest motorway here) and they'll stand units own from stuff to go. Yet there may not be any casualties at the multiple pile up but they'll send all they've got until you find out!!
 
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Or phone them to say your 6-week old son has stopped breathing and they're there in a couple of minutes.
 
I must be living in some parallel universe. I phoned them up, provided a truthful and accurate assessment of the situation. And they arrived in a time appropriate manner.
 
viv1969 said:
Tbh calling the police in the first place was a tad OTT imo.
You've said yourself no one felt threatened, just bothered.
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the bigger picture is that of a number of staff now trapped a building, including those with young families and one well on the way to a new arrival. No means of entry or exit without opening the frount door to this woman. No facilities other than a rest room and tea making facilities. Back door sealed as part of security measures (fire exit)

By "threat" I mean one of an armed raid. but if the door had been opened,the situation could have quickly escalated

the woman had been shouting and pounding on the door for 20 minutes, so iIMO police intervention was justified - a couple of officers would have been adequate, because they advised her that what we told her was right. The safe is now on a time lock and noone present has the means of overriding it
 
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kennethwfd said:
the bigger picture is that of a number of staff now trapped a building, including those with young families and one well on the way to a new arrival. No means of entry or exit without opening the frount door to this woman. No facilities other than a rest room and tea making facilities. Back door sealed as part of security measures (fire exit)

By "threat" I mean one of an armed raid. but if the door had been opened,the situation could have quickly escalated

the woman had been shouting and pounding on the door for 20 minutes, so iIMO police intervention was justified - a couple of officers would have been adequate, because they advised her that what we told her was right. The safe is now on a time lock and noone present has the means of overriding it
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If the rear door is designated as a fire exit it must open freely from the inside. To render it sealed and be unable to open it is illegal. :-)
 
viv1969 said:
If the rear door is designated as a fire exit it must open freely from the inside. To render it sealed and be unable to open it is illegal. :)
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true, but the issue is that as a former employee, I cannot reveal certain aspects of my former employer without approval

I leave this thread with this. if I spent 20 minutes at your frount door banging and shouting..would you say oh just acceptible behaviour...
 
swiftflo said:
I live at the bottom of a dead end street and we can also here the ambulance and police sirens on the near by dual carriage way. Friday morning I did not take any notice of the sirens on the dual carriage way. Very shortly afterwards the sirens appeared to be coming from the front of the bungalow, so went out to investigate. It appears that the police car was chasing a couple of youngsters in a car from Derby which is around 8 miles away.They had turned down our street and in turning had crashed into 2 cars parked at the top of street.As the street is a dead end the youths had come to a stop with the bags inflated, they had stopped about 2 feet from our front window with a police patrol car immediately behind them, one tried to get away by running down the drive further up the street.
Minutes after the cars stopped no fewer than 5 police cars arrived all behind each other, so we then had a virtual army of police uniforms outside, 10 in all, not long after this there appeared 6 (I think) plain close officers walking down the street. A neighbour made tea and there they all stood drinking tea.
I ask you 16 police and 5 vehicles all in a line on the street. No wonder you cannot get a policeman if you wanted one.
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I can't see what your issue is Derbyshire Constabulary responded to an incident. Members of public often make cups of tea for officers it's called engaging in the community. They all carry radios you know, this enables them to communicate with other units, control room, dog section, helicopter ! Etc etc - suspects may have been arrested just around the corner for all you know and the units were stood down !!
 
kennethwfd said:
true, but the issue is that as a former employee, I cannot reveal certain aspects of my former employer without approval

I leave this thread with this. if I spent 20 minutes at your frount door banging and shouting..would you say oh just acceptible behaviour...
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No...but nor would I call the police when not under threat.
I guarantee the door knocker would tire first. :-)
 
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