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Originally Posted by WillowTheWhisp

In my experience if you haven't any specific details to report the police regard it as wasting their time.

A few years ago as I walked into my local post office for my pension, I noticed two lads in the nearby phone box. When I came out those same lads were stood across the road as if they were waiting for someone.

Then a red sporty soft top car came roaring up stopped by the waiting lads, one of them put his hand inside the car and then withdrew it and put it in his pocket. At that time I was too slow to make a note of the number and the car sped off. Off the top of my head I would say that I had witnessed a drug sale.

Nearly two years later the same car pulled out of a side street right in front of me causing me to brake sharply. I recognised it right away and this time I made a note of the number as I followed it down the road.

When I got home I rang the police and told them the full story. They were most interested in the number and thanked me for being public spirited.

My reasoning was that although my tiny piece of information was unlikely to bring them to justice it could have been another piece or even the final piece of the evidence jigsaw to enable the police to make a raid and an arrest. I have no idea of the outcome but since that day I haven’t seen the red car flying around nor have I seen youths gathering around a phone box and then hanging around for a while after making a phone call.

My point is that we do not know what the police know and our apparently insignificant piece of information could be vital to them. In other words let them decide, not you.