Okay, so I have a bee in my bonnet about this. Well, so should you after this stunning missive plonked on my desk from some friendly Detective at Bow Street Nick.
“The fraud allegation reported has been recorded as a crime on Tower Hamlets Borough (Oh! Good!). Unfortunately, due to the current Borough policy… blah, blah, … will not be investigated”
And again:
“… Police Service has finite resources (translation: money) .. only right that these resources are directed to crimes that are solveable…”
So, a reported crime, where you give the name, address, the evidence, more eveidence (indeed more than you can shake a stick at) is not solveable – indeed PC Plod is not going to even send someone around to knock on the door of someone who has nicked the best part of £4,000 for a few days work – Oh! And it’s against the Borough policy.
So what crimes, pray, are with policy? How much can one nick before Inspector Plod comes a-calling? Naturally, I have asked Chief Superintendent Blindeye to let me have a note of, er, “permissable crime”. Certainly, The London Borough of Tower Hamlets is clearly the place to be for credit card fraud!
