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Originally Posted by Gayle
Word of advice - if you ring the police station (not 999 the regular number) and ask for someone to come but they don't - ring back after five minutes to remind them.
Someone I know phoned the police and they didn't show up all night. When they rang the day after to ask why they didn't come they were told 'we didn't come because you didn't ring back so we didn't think it was important enough'.
So, if you need them keep bugging them till they come.
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not completely true gayle ..well not here in blackpool anyhow...not long ago my daughter were being bullied at school to the extent that the girl was expelled from school and she continued to wait for my daughter to walk to school, she gave my daughter a good hiding one day and because the school couldnt do anything they asked me to involve the police , which i did .. my daughter were in a right state and i phoned the police at lunchtime and 11pm that night i got a phone call from them apologising because they had been busy elsewhere . (no help to my daughter at the time ) same the day after.. it took them three days to come out .. although when they finally did and saw the severity of the situation they became more helpful and everyone finally worked together..ie police ,myself and school resulting in a prosicution... but should it really have taken so long? no is my reply..