Phil Pascoe
Established Member
On tuesday morning I answered my door to a neighbour who told me a van had knocked down my garden wall, and that he had pit on his cctv. I informed the police and tried to send the video ... I couldn't send the pictures because the file was too big. I offered to take them to the main police station, but told them I couldn't actually get there as I have no transport and the police station (the main one in this part of Cornwall) only opens 9.00am - 5.00pm weekdays only, closed for lunch.
I eventually get a call from a WPC who had seen the toing and froing of emails who told me that I should have been told after the first email that the police would do nothing without the vehicle's number - which I didn't capture on film. She said they couldn't possibly identify the van without the number, and I said well if your system would accept emails of more than a certain size one of their traffic police would probably get the age and make of the van at a glance, that it was carrying a clinical waste licence orange warning sign and a long horizontal yellow stripe, and was undoubtedly damaged as it rode over the wall. This is at 9.36am in the morning at the end of a long cul de sac. The irony was he touched the wall and stopped - then must have thought sod it, the van'll ride over it.
She told me that I couldn't possibly expect the police to investigate minor things like that and I should have been told that in the beginning.
I wonder how many companies in West Cornwall are licensed to carry clinical waste? I wonder how many run large white vans of a certain age and manufacture were delivering or picking up at 9.36am in a cul de sac in a small village?
She did say that I was welcome to ring around and to try to get some more info. I didn't get into an argument with her when she said "you don't expect us to investigate thing like that do you" but I very nearly said yes I f*** ing well do actually - it's what you're for. The call was undoubtedly taped although I wasn't told it was, so I suppose I could have said anything I liked really.
I'm going to get No.1 child to put it on Facebook and YouTube and ask if anyone has any ideas, because the police haven't.
I eventually get a call from a WPC who had seen the toing and froing of emails who told me that I should have been told after the first email that the police would do nothing without the vehicle's number - which I didn't capture on film. She said they couldn't possibly identify the van without the number, and I said well if your system would accept emails of more than a certain size one of their traffic police would probably get the age and make of the van at a glance, that it was carrying a clinical waste licence orange warning sign and a long horizontal yellow stripe, and was undoubtedly damaged as it rode over the wall. This is at 9.36am in the morning at the end of a long cul de sac. The irony was he touched the wall and stopped - then must have thought sod it, the van'll ride over it.
She told me that I couldn't possibly expect the police to investigate minor things like that and I should have been told that in the beginning.
I wonder how many companies in West Cornwall are licensed to carry clinical waste? I wonder how many run large white vans of a certain age and manufacture were delivering or picking up at 9.36am in a cul de sac in a small village?
She did say that I was welcome to ring around and to try to get some more info. I didn't get into an argument with her when she said "you don't expect us to investigate thing like that do you" but I very nearly said yes I f*** ing well do actually - it's what you're for. The call was undoubtedly taped although I wasn't told it was, so I suppose I could have said anything I liked really.
I'm going to get No.1 child to put it on Facebook and YouTube and ask if anyone has any ideas, because the police haven't.
