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Originally Posted by keetah992000
by responding to the call-
they had a space of half an hour to get to the field which they chose not to do there were other details i gave them and i did say it was while ago so couldnt remember exact details
it wasnt as though i was ringing and naming a random incedent - it is a nutorious spot for riders dumping their car and burning them
does the firebrigade ask how hot a fire is before responding, or a lifegaurd ask how far i think the person could swim ? no because it is their duty to turn up to incedents and judge them for themselves.
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Fire services have no legal requirement to respond to your call so that is a bad example to use but what are the police meant to do? The police also have discretion over which crimes they use their resources on and if they charge people... they don't appear to have done something that breaches their duty as far as the law goes... perhaps maybe they have a moral duty to answer your call but it doesn't really sound like it was worth wasting time over in my opinion.
If you were in the police woul you have genuinely responded to it? Remember that the police force spend more time on following up their investigations with paperwork, and do you think this was worth that hassle when they may have been needed somewhere else more urgently?
I had to wait over an hour after being jumped by a gang of girls once, but I still have faith in the police and didn't really think too much about them taking so long. In fact, afterwards I felt like I had wasted their time because I knew there were no witnesses to back me up, at least none that bothered to stop to help me, and no other evidence. For all I know the police could've been busy wasting time on calls like yours that delayed them actually getting to me, same goes for that poor man in the park. I think people waste more police time than they realise because they want a perfect society, and we should just accept it's not going to happen and just accept that sometimes the law is broken and with limited police resources, we unfortunately have to be a bit more selective about which crimes we report an which we dont. Unfortunately that's just the way it is.