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Hi
I agree with you. The Police should be involved and you should look to escalate it through their complaints procedure.
At the end of the day they came to your wife, had services provided and left without paying. Criminal not Civil!
No different in my eyes to pulling onto a filling station, filling my car then driving off without paying.
I'm not a lawyer though
Apparently down here in Devon an Cornwall driving off without paying for fuel is now a civil offence rather than criminal
The police don't deal with fraud any longer, it's been delegated down to a website, which doesn't really deal with it!,,
http://www.actionfraud.police.uk/fraud-az-individual-fraud
Apparently down here in Devon an Cornwall driving off without paying for fuel is now a civil offence rather than criminal
Many forces ARE considering that as a formal approach in order to manage what they do and don't attend-I think the rationale is that the station has ANPR so has the means to pursue the driver, and public funds can be better spent elsewhere (not my argument, I don't speak for my force or the other 42 in England and Wales).
DrP there is every chance that your original call didn't even reach the eyes of a police officer (let alone CPS)- it would have gone into something like our Police Enquiry Centre where a suitably trained civilian call taker would have recorded it, and may have classified it and "filed" it there and then.
rene, obvious troll is obvious etc, so I'll just leave these stories that book-ended my 2 years on our Professional Standards Dept here
http://www.bucksfreepress.co.uk/news/9031636.PC_jailed_over_indecent_images_of_children/