fozy tornip
A usual suspect.
Quality footage: what camera are you using?
Police and YouTube traffic vids
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Only just noticed this thread so sorry for bumping an ended conversation.
If anyone has encountered as bad a response from the police as this and I Like Skol's incident, regardless of whether it's on the road or whatever, you MUST complain - first to the Chief Constable and if you get nowhere that way then to the IPCC.
When I was a student some years back in Leeds we had a similar problem with police taking burglaries and muggings seriously. Students in Leeds had become easy targets for thieves - cases were often reported in the local papers where students were fobbed off while calling 999 when people were currently trying to break into their house! Even when the Hyde Park region of Leeds had become the most burgled area in the UK and the (completely unlit at night) Hyde Park itself gained the highest levels of rape in europe, the police still didn't seem to care. Only after a capaign of reporting such fobbings off to the IPCC did anything begin to change. I don't know what it's like there now.
If anyone has encountered as bad a response from the police as this and I Like Skol's incident, regardless of whether it's on the road or whatever, you MUST complain - first to the Chief Constable and if you get nowhere that way then to the IPCC.
When I was a student some years back in Leeds we had a similar problem with police taking burglaries and muggings seriously. Students in Leeds had become easy targets for thieves - cases were often reported in the local papers where students were fobbed off while calling 999 when people were currently trying to break into their house! Even when the Hyde Park region of Leeds had become the most burgled area in the UK and the (completely unlit at night) Hyde Park itself gained the highest levels of rape in europe, the police still didn't seem to care. Only after a capaign of reporting such fobbings off to the IPCC did anything begin to change. I don't know what it's like there now.
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middleagecyclist
Call me MAC
- Location
- Prestwich, Manchester
cloggsy
Boardmanist
- Location
- North Yorkshire
What about leaving the scene of an accident? Failing to report a Road Traffic Collision etc?
I would have a serious word!
Did you get any witnesses?
Vikeonabike
CC Neighbourhood Police Constable
- Location
- Bourne, Lincolnshire
Why has no one else noticed he has a break light out....copper could at least issue VDRN to get that fixed!
ComedyPilot
Secret Lemonade Drinker
- Location
- The Kingdom of Yorkshire
Vikeonabike
CC Neighbourhood Police Constable
- Location
- Bourne, Lincolnshire
Refreshingly...
Went into a local Police Station after a bad "left hook", showed the Officer the video on the IPad, and....................
They were really impressed, reckoned it made the case unequivocal, they asked me to fill out a formal complaint, add the video as a CD, and they will be taking action on the strength of the video evidence and statement.
We then had a chat about the technicalities, the wisdom of the One Show describing it as being a "weapon in a war between cyclists and motorists" and left on very congenial terms
Went into a local Police Station after a bad "left hook", showed the Officer the video on the IPad, and....................
They were really impressed, reckoned it made the case unequivocal, they asked me to fill out a formal complaint, add the video as a CD, and they will be taking action on the strength of the video evidence and statement.
We then had a chat about the technicalities, the wisdom of the One Show describing it as being a "weapon in a war between cyclists and motorists" and left on very congenial terms
