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Alasdair

"UK police 'steal' from cars for your own good"

Surely this story is a step too far?  The police entering vehicles and removing valuable items for the good of the owner?!

http://www.presstv.ir/detail.aspx?id=104588&sectionid=351020601

Quote:
Police in the UK capital of London have started taking valuable items from unlocked cars in a bid to help motorists discourage theft.

The new measure allows police officers to sneak into unlocked parked vehicles and take away objects of value left incautiously in the cars, British media quoted a new Scotland Yard statement as saying.

Car owners in the Richmond upon Thames area of South-West London, where the measure has been introduced, have found their valuables including handbags, laptops and satellite navigation devices gone missing after returning to their automobiles.

Indiscreet motorists would see notes on their cars, warning them to 'remove the property for safekeeping' before the police exercises the 'tough love' policy in order to stem theft from cars, which has shown a 40-percent rise in the region over the past several months.

"The message to car owners is: 'Help us to help you,'" AP quoted Richmond Police Chief Inspector Duncan Slade as saying on Wednesday.

The latest stunt carried out by the British police has sparked controversy over possible damages that could be done to personal belongings in the course of the inspections and retrieval of the confiscated items.

However, the metropolitan's law enforcement branch insists that the bid would merely safeguard the repossession of properties abandoned in vehicles with open doors or windows.
Aventinian

'We'll nick your stuff before someone else does' is an interesting policy.
Reluctant Hero

Is that what we need a 1,000 more police officers in Scotland for?

Surely the police can find more constructive ways of spending their time.
wisnaeme

The polis will be taking a leaf out of  Broon and the Westmidden stealth thieves book next. Somewhat akin to  the free enterprise, car clamping privateers down Englandshire way.

Commission on a percentage of the value of the goods returned to the owners, perhaps.

and while they're 'at it' maybe a few swabs and fingerprint samples taken from those goods  on display will add to the erm knowledge on file of our citizenry.

Traces of cocaine or other naughty substances, was it?

... and your DNA sample won't be returned to you, since you don't own that anyways. Besides, it will be useful for 'research' purposes

Did you obtain a receipt for those goods  'found' in your vehicle when they were bought, then, Mr Smith? To prove ownership, naturally.

...and we didn't download any material on your laptop or whatever out of curiousity, nor did we show any curiousity whatsoever on any personal details 'found' in handbags or whatever.

...and no, we won't inform your insurance company on the risk attatched to yourself, Mr Smith in the matter of difficulties with higher premiums with such as yourself by selling useful information. I mean to say, Those  You Gov,  vehicle people in Swansea have the standards  of a duty of care, just like ourselves.



Uh Huh, aren't our polis wonderful, in their efforts to stamp out  on us, the wonders of technology in the crime prevention.

Ah mean to say, maybe they just walked into my house through an unlocked door or an open window
... and took our valuables  on display into protective security on our behalf.

Ah mean to say, if they have accessed  an unlocked and unsecured vehicle in the because of whatever. Surely it would be a remiss of their curiousity not to take a look in the boot or in the glove compartment?

Likewise it would be a remiss of their curiousity in the crime prevention not to take a look in my cupboards and drawers after they'd just walk in or crawled through a window.

Aye, no need for the inconveniences of search warrants or that sort of thing.

Couldn't possibly be confused with control freakery, could it?


Cynical, ain't I just? Rolling Eyes

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Stevie

Big Brother B******s.

Thanks for highlighting this Al.

It makes me wonder what the heck the world is coming to.

... sigh.

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