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51 cars seized in Wirral

12:19pm Monday 20th August 2007

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POLICE using a high-tech number plate recognition system seized 51 cars on Wirral's roads in one day.

The large scale ANPR (Automatic Number Plate Recognition) operation pulled together resources from across Merseyside to effectively target police action against those using roads and vehicles to carry out criminal activities.

“ANPR ensures we continue to target and arrest criminals, recover stolen vehicles and reduce crime in our communities.”

Chief Superintendent Colin Matthews

During the operation on Friday, officers made 56 arrests, seized 51 vehicles and issued 15 cautions for possession of cannabis.

A total of 120 fixed penalties were also issued for motoring offences.

Vehicles equipped with ANPR were strategically positioned around the major arterial routes in to and out of Wirral, creating a barrier for criminals entering the area.

ANPR systems automatically read and check vehicle registration numbers against information stored in databases, such as the Police National Computer, DVLA databases and local intelligence databases, to check if vehicles are of interest to the police.

It gives officers the capability to check whether vehicles have been stolen, are being driven illegally or have been used by offenders to commit crime.

The technology is particularly helpful in preventing and detecting serious crime by identifying pool' cars travelling in the area.

Shared by groups of criminals for the purpose of committing crime, pool' cars tend to have no registered owner and no insurance attached to them.

ANPR doesn't monitor speed and members of the public who don't break the law have nothing to fear from police using ANPR. Information is gathered and used by officers to directly target those involved in crime in the region.

Wirral Area Commander, Chief Superintendent Colin Matthews said: "ANPR technology improves our ability to prevent crime and detect offenders by denying criminals the right to use our roads.

"Working together with the local community and partner agencies, we are using new approaches, new technology and new legislation as part of out total war on crime in the borough.

"ANPR ensures we continue to target and arrest criminals, recover stolen vehicles and reduce crime in our communities."

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Mr Bollo, says...
1:16pm Mon 20 Aug 07

So that's what they were all doing! I drove through the Woodchurch junction of the M53 on my way home from work on Friday, and I have never seen so many coppers together in one place at the same time. Still, I’m sure we’ll all sleep safer in our beds knowing that 15 highly dangerous dope smokers are no longer at large in the community. I would like to commend the police on an excellent use of resources – so much better that sending all these officers out and about to walk the beat and giving people in the community a sense of reassurance by maintaining a visible police. And after all, we don’t want them getting tired feet or cold and wet from the rain, do we?

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Wind your neck in, says...
1:28pm Mon 20 Aug 07

A very cynical attitude Mr. Bollo. Does it not occur to you that the very people who drive without licence, without insurance or whilst disqualified from driving are NOT model citizens, but very often career criminals? Seizing their vehicles is but one part of the process; often when stopped all manner of other criminal activity is uncovered and dealt with.

Apart from anything else, are YOU happy with uninsured drivers on the roads? Do you think they drive extra-carefully, or that they would stop if they ran you or one of your loved ones down?

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Mr Bollo, says...
4:23pm Mon 20 Aug 07

Sorry, but I won’t ‘wind my neck in’.

Does it not occur to you that the very people who drive without licence, without insurance or whilst disqualified from driving are NOT model citizens, but very often career criminals?


How often? How many ‘career criminals’ were arrested last Friday? What did this operation cost? What were the 56 people arrested for? Surely any serious ‘career criminal’ wouldn’t be so stupid as to be driving around in an uninsured vehicle these days?

Apart from anything else, are YOU happy with uninsured drivers on the roads?


No IÂ’m not, but I donÂ’t think it requires on operation of this scale to catch uninsured drivers.

The point I was making is that this doesnÂ’t seem like an efficient use of police resources. Ask most people what they want from the police and they will tell you that would like to see more police out and about in the community, not tied up in resource hungry operations like this. Most of the coppers that I saw on Friday seemed to be standing around doing not very much. This kind of operation does the image of the police no good whatsoever. It smacks too much of easy policing.

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Wind your neck in, says...
4:42pm Mon 20 Aug 07

Well we'll have to agree to disagree then. Strangely enough, plenty of career criminals do use unlicenced and/or uninsured cars. Not your 'Mister Bigs' - but the low-life low-level career criminals who outnumber them and actually make ordinary peoples' lives a misery much more than the 'Ronnie Biggs's' of this world.

And talking about 'operations of this scale' and whether it is 'an efficient use of police resources' - well I happen to think it is. How much more 'out in the community' can they get than having a large-scale, 'in your face' operation running over a period of a few hours that takes 51 cars off the road, etc. etc? I think this kind of operation does the police's image a power of good. Bring it on!

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Peter J, Pensby says...
4:44pm Mon 20 Aug 07

Mr Bollo wrote:
So that's what they were all doing! I drove through the Woodchurch junction of the M53 on my way home from work on Friday, and I have never seen so many coppers together in one place at the same time. Still, I’m sure we’ll all sleep safer in our beds knowing that 15 highly dangerous dope smokers are no longer at large in the community. I would like to commend the police on an excellent use of resources – so much better that sending all these officers out and about to walk the beat and giving people in the community a sense of reassurance by maintaining a visible police. And after all, we don’t want them getting tired feet or cold and wet from the rain, do we?
Shut up you plank...

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Mr Bollo, says...
4:57pm Mon 20 Aug 07

Shut up you plank...


Peter, thank you so much for your thought provoking contribution, it was most welcome. Are you a freemason by any chance?

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tommy, wirral says...
4:59pm Mon 20 Aug 07

do i see police state of the future? the british govt,never does anything without a long term purpose that is why we are the most watched society on the planet...wake up and smell the coffee and before anybody say if you have done nothing you have nothing to fear ha!..bet a few million people in history have heard that before

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Steve McChrystal, says...
5:15pm Mon 20 Aug 07

Cannabis and fixed penalties? How much did the operation cost? What are we most concerned about? Anti-social behaviour, attacks on innocent people, internet fraud/identity theft etc (for which the police say go to your bank) and paedophiles. It is quite obvious that a person in a car is a soft target and a good way of bumping up the detection rate.

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Dave Rimmer, Wallasey says...
9:29pm Mon 20 Aug 07

I believe the largest element in these operations is excise duty recovery. The DVLA are the ones that financially score from such exercises.

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Brian, In exile says...
1:06am Tue 21 Aug 07

Depressing to see the old "If you have done nothing wrong, you have nothing to fear" line being trotted out by Globe staff. Does it really take THAT much imagination to see the potential for these ANPR devices being spread as widely as speed cameras, hook the whole lot into a database (trivially easy, and I speak as someone who earned his living from writing database software for almost 20 years) and there you have it, a movements database for motorists. What fun when that's hooked in with all the other information HMG wants to collect. The only mistake George Orwell made is that he was about 30-40 years too soon on his prediction. And yes, before someone else points it out, they have an approximate movements database now (ever wonder why garages like putting your registration on credit card slips) but that's just small beer compared with the data that the automated systems will be able to collect.

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Wind your neck in, says...
8:39am Tue 21 Aug 07

You lot make me laugh.

Let's deal with the 'conspiracy theorists' first. Yes, I have read '1984' thank you - several times as it happens. Yes, with some effort, technology would allow all our movements to be tracked. But tell me do, why would the police want to do this? People complain that there are not enough police around, so who the hell do you think is going to have time to use the data that they collected? Brian, our database writer, ought to know that collecting data is easy - sorting the wheat from the chaff and doing something useful with the good data is quite another matter. Why would anyone want to know where you are if you are not breaking the law? You appear on CCTV every day, do you think an army of people is watching your every move? News flash - if you are walking down the street minding your own business and not breaking the law...they are not interested in you.

Now the moaning minnie motorists. Stop bleating about the police 'wasting their time' targetting motorists. Just obey the **** laws. Wear your seat belt. Obey the speed limit. Leave your ruddy mobile phone swithched OFF. It really is that simple - and if you all did it, the police would not need to 'waste their time' stopping you, nor would you get clocked by speed cameras, etc. Not that difficult, is it? I find it amazing that so many motorists can spend time, money and effort in trying to avoid getting caught for speeding, when the easiest and cheapest way to do is to obey the speed limits.

To quote Jim Carrey's character in the film 'Liar liar', when he is asked by a serial offender what he should do to stay out of jail..."stop breaking the law, @sshole" - !!!

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SL, prenton says...
9:03am Tue 21 Aug 07

I hear both sides of the argument here... but there is one thing i agree with bollo about...

There should be more visible police on the beat, and then there might not be so many 'hoodys' causing problems in the local areas.

Feeling intimidated to walk 200 yds to the local shop or takeaway after 7pm is a worry for anyone on their own (especially females) when you face a gang of 15-20 youths (ages 15-18), 'hanging out' outside the shops. There is already a ban on groups of that size gathering in this area but still they come, the intimidate, they don't care.

I appreciate the bobbys on this occaision were trying to capture some of the more serious criminals but just how many of the above statistics were 'serious' criminals? not including those carrying a little dope for own use... or those who have a faulty brake light or a wearing tyre?

I am law abiding, and I accept that I am caught on camera numerous times a day if out shopping etc, and that tons of information will be held on me in some office somewhere. (have you ever requested an organisation send you all the info they hold on you... its unbelievable... for example... 500+ A4 sheets from benefits agency - dating back to 1970s for someone who has worked most of their life!!!)

There are those who deserve to be punished, and if the police have to occaisionally carry out these type of operations to catch those serious criminals, then so be it. If they happen to catch the minor criminal in the process, then unlucky to them, they should stay law abiding.

I support the operations, I support the cameras, and I even support the ID card.

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Dave Rimmer, Wallasey says...
10:03am Tue 21 Aug 07

When the Chief Constable before Mr Hogan-Howe (cant remember his name) took the decision to reduce the traffic cops by 60% (yes 60%) it became obvious that the standard of driving on Merseyside would deteriorate in a very short time. The very prescence of visible policing, in my opinion, was far more effective than all your speed cameras and other technology put together. This trend of removing traffic cops and replacing them with technology does appear to me to be more of a revenue generation exercise rather than a road safety one. Bring back the traffic cops and remove the cameras, these actions would improve the driving standards.

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Mr Bollo, says...
11:03am Tue 21 Aug 07

You appear on CCTV every day, do you think an army of people is watching your every move?


If nobody is watching all these cameras (over 1 million at recent estimates), then what is the point in having them? How do you know what is being done with the information recorded on these cameras? Do you really want to be watched all the time? There are already face recognition systems in development. What happens if you closely resemble a known criminal? Are you going to be arrested each time a camera ‘flags you up’?

Stop bleating about the police 'wasting their time' targeting motorists.


Nobody here is condoning bad driving, but it’s all a question of priorities. The police have limited resources. In many areas of town, people simply do not feel safe. This kind of policing is only ‘high visibility’ if you happen to drive through one of these roadblocks. It does nothing to reassure those who are out and about in Birkenhead. It might catch a few minor criminals driving illegally, but it doesn’t do anything to deal with the problems of anti-social behaviour in the community. It is an inefficient use or resources.

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Ragnar, Brandenburg-Preussen . says...
12:28pm Tue 21 Aug 07

members of the public who don't break the law have nothing to fear


Not yet.

Would you be so blasé if at the next general election, the BNP became the Government?

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Ragnar, Brandenburg-Preussen . says...
12:29pm Tue 21 Aug 07

Up until 12 monthjs aggo, it was not an offence to put your bin out on the wrong day, either.

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Bluestring, Wirral says...
5:04pm Tue 21 Aug 07

In fairness to the Globe staff being mocked by 'Brian in Exile', I don't think the newspaper has said anything of the sort.

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Peter J, Wirral says...
5:23pm Tue 21 Aug 07

Mr Bollo wrote:
Shut up you plank...
Peter, thank you so much for your thought provoking contribution, it was most welcome. Are you a freemason by any chance?
No actually.

If you have a problem with the Police dont bother phoning them next time someone breaks in to you shed, slashes your car tyres ot assaults you in the street.


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SadSid, London says...
6:16pm Tue 21 Aug 07

If Mr Bollo pays his taxes he has every right to call the police when he needs them. You don't throw away your sink if you lose the plug do you?

The problem here is that the 'monitoring' is moving away from looking at tapes if some crime has been committed to watching people and tagging their every move regardless.

The problem with that is if you support a particular political party you may find yourself being fitted up for all sorts. Look how this government wants to regulate us, think ahead to the future where the government wants to control us even more. Not a nice thought.

We need the police but high profile real policing not easy catches to bolster their records. I'd rather all those low life scummers got away if they stopped the last two people being killed for speaking out at teenagers and car drivers.

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Mr Bollo, says...
7:28pm Tue 21 Aug 07

Peter, what is your point exactly? Have you anything intelligent to contribute here, beyond another mindless insult? As SadSid said, given that I pay my taxes (income, council etc), I am perfectly entitled to criticise the police if I disagree with their strategies and methods whilst still expecting them to provide the services I have contributed towards. Or do you think the police are beyond reproach? HavenÂ’t you ever criticised the council for anything? Bet you have, but you still expect your bin to be emptied, donÂ’t you? DuhÂ…

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Brian, In Exile says...
9:13pm Tue 21 Aug 07

Wind your neck in wrote:
You lot make me laugh.

Let\'s deal with the \'conspiracy theorists\' first. Yes, I have read \'1984\' thank you - several times as it happens. Yes, with some effort, technology would allow all our movements to be tracked. But tell me do, why would the police want to do this? People complain that there are not enough police around, so who the hell do you think is going to have time to use the data that they collected? Brian, our database writer, ought to know that collecting data is easy - sorting the wheat from the chaff and doing something useful with the good data is quite another matter. Why would anyone want to know where you are if you are not breaking the law? You appear on CCTV every day, do you think an army of people is watching your every move? News flash - if you are walking down the street minding your own business and not breaking the law...they are not interested in you.

Now the moaning minnie motorists. Stop bleating about the police \'wasting their time\' targetting motorists. Just obey the **** laws. Wear your seat belt. Obey the speed limit. Leave your ruddy mobile phone swithched OFF. It really is that simple - and if you all did it, the police would not need to \'waste their time\' stopping you, nor would you get clocked by speed cameras, etc. Not that difficult, is it? I find it amazing that so many motorists can spend time, money and effort in trying to avoid getting caught for speeding, when the easiest and cheapest way to do is to obey the speed limits.

To quote Jim Carrey\'s character in the film \'Liar liar\', when he is asked by a serial offender what he should do to stay out of jail...\"stop breaking the law, @sshole\" - !!!
I said HMG, not the police. And as for why they'd want to collect the data, then probably for the same reason as they want to foist a compulsory ID card on the UK. And yes, you'd be collecting a hell of a lot of data. Hard drive space is cheap these days. Why don't I like the idea? Simple - data that has been collected WILL be exploited sooner or later. Some bright spark in government is going to have the idea of selling the data - just to cover the costs of running the scheme, you understand. Link your movement records with all the other databases that are out there, and you can throw any notion of privacy out of the window (if it isn't too late already). And yes, sorting the wheat from the chaff is necessary - but then data mining isn't exactly an unknown concept. Put down your copy of 1984 and pick up a book or two on the subject.

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Brian, In Exile says...
9:17pm Tue 21 Aug 07

Bluestring wrote:
In fairness to the Globe staff being mocked by 'Brian in Exile', I don't think the newspaper has said anything of the sort.
Try reading the article again. Paragraph 10, to be exact.

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Rob, Blahzil says...
10:51pm Tue 21 Aug 07

I wish you lot wouldn`t keep quoting each other. All this scrolling down the page is a pain.
Most CCTV systems are useless. I would have thought that, if they were monitored properly, then a wrongdoer should be caught before he gets too far. Rarely the case. They look at the footage afterwards and all they get is the back of a hood or a grainy picture that even a mother wouldn`t recognise. I`m sure you have seen them on TV. Do you think they are any good as a deterrent?
A worry I have about the Police, is that they may be heading towards having to be self-funding. Imagine how that might work. More roadblocks etc.. Okay, if you are all legal and above board, that shouldn`t matter. But it might become your word against the revenue chaser`s, if they are having a quiet week. Then you`ll get charged for calling them out. Do they not now get the money earned from speed cameras? I think they changed it recently so that they do.
And of course, Orwell`s 1984, was actually written about what he thought it would be like in 1948, but he had to change the title to avoid getting into trouble with the authorities.

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scotty, prenton says...
12:57am Wed 22 Aug 07

Road blocks.my comment is -if the police are so concerned about illegal motorists because of their link to more serious offences,why dont you see road blocks 24 hours a day?surely criminals can drive around of a night ie commiting all sorts of offences cant they?ive never seen any of a night,and do you know why i havnt?because they dont make as much revenue of a night as they do in the daytime.take away all the police officers wages etc etc out of the amount of people they would arrest for driving illegal or other offences(drug possesion etc)and they wouldnt have made half as much as they would have in the daytime and probobly wouldnt cover expenses for the evening shift for the police.fact is catching real criminals is too much hard work and they dont get any revenue from thugs.and who wants to work nights anyway?when you can get paid around £22000 per year to stand around pulling motorists in a daytime job.if all those officers were involved in drug busts or walking the beat like in the good old days(when crime wasnt nearly as bad) the wirral would not be such a mess as it is now. am i wrong?let me know.i know at least 20 other people with the same comment as me.

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SPM, says...
6:27am Wed 22 Aug 07

Just support the Police and stop defending yourselves and the crap youth everybody has let run riot. Jail thier scumbag parents and make them pay for the damage. It is a pity that we cant send them to a penal colony or do we already have one already THE WIRRAL.

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Winston Smith, says...
8:47am Wed 22 Aug 07

And of course, Orwell`s 1984, was actually written about what he thought it would be like in 1948, but he had to change the title to avoid getting into trouble with the authorities.


That's not true. I doubt very much that Orwell cared about upsetting the authorities; he was terminally ill while he was completing '1984' and he knew it.

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Wind your neck in, says...
9:08am Wed 22 Aug 07

Brian in exile - there is a fatal flaw in your conspiracy theory - leaving aside the fact that 99% of the data colected would tell no-one anything useful; why would the police or HMG want to knwo where I was, minding my own business? "Because then can"? What possible gain is there to be had? No, the fatal flaw is that your precious 'data mining', or at least the outcome of it, depends ultimately on...people. A person is smart. People are lazy and/or stupid to varying degrees. Look at the current systems that we have - how many times is data wrong, unavailable, or there but no-one can be bothered to check properly? Every large government-sponsored IT system in the last 20 years has been late/under-spec/over
-budget, in any combination you care to mention, and in most cases not fully fit for purpose. What on earth makes you think that bigger, more complicated systems will fare any better or be of any more real effectiveness? We live on a ruddy island, and we can't even tell accurately how many immigrants arrive each year! Your faith in I.T. is touching, but misplaced.

Scotty - you talk of 'catching real criminals'. To reiterate a point that I made earlier in this debate, do you think that the low-lifes that choose to drive without a licence or insurance are not 'real criminals'? Do you think that, apart from their so-called 'minor' motoring offences they are upright, law-abiding citizens? Of course they are not. Brian's faith in I.T. is touching; so too is yours in human nature, but alas, equally misplaced.

Read what the police trawl in with these roadside 'nets' - bail jumpers, people dealing in stolen property, drug dealers, benefit fraudsters, etc. etc. The numbers and types of offence detected each time may vary, but these roadside operations DO catch real criminals. Times have changed - the days when 'burglar Bill' walked around with a bag over his shoulder marked 'swag' are gone. The modern criminal relies much more on cars and the public highways to go about their business.

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captain sore bum, birkenhead says...
9:25am Wed 22 Aug 07

Spreading more joy bollo? Back to the comment,the police should do this type of operation every month. And wee on the tyres of every third car.

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Bluestring, Wirral says...
10:38am Wed 22 Aug 07

Good point, Brian in Exile.

I think that paragraph should have quotes around it.

It looks like something Mr Plod might say, doesn't it?

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Mr Bollo, says...
11:32am Wed 22 Aug 07

SPM

Just support the Police


Yes, let's just do that shall we, no matter what, because the police are all totally brilliant, aren't they? We should never dare to question their methods, should we?

Wind your neck in

A person is smart. People are lazy and/or stupid to varying degrees.


So which is it then???

Do you think that, apart from their so-called 'minor' motoring offences they are upright, law-abiding citizens? Of course they are not.


What, all of them? So everyone who is driving illegally must also be involved in some other criminal activity? And conversely all legal drivers are therefore squeaky clean? I donÂ’t thinks so, somehow.

Look at the current systems that we have - how many times is data wrongÂ…What on earth makes you think that bigger, more complicated systems will fare any betterÂ…


All the more reason to be concerned about the misuse (either deliberate or accidental) of the data held such systems then, isn't it?

Times have changed - the days when 'burglar Bill' walked around with a bag over his shoulder marked 'swag' are gone.


But those days never really existed, did they? Except perhaps in the world of Enid Blyton, or the mind of the average Daily Mail reader.

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Wind you neck in, says...
11:45am Wed 22 Aug 07

Bollo - which am I? Lazy, to some degree. Certainly not stupid. But too lazy on this occasion to bother any more with this. Like I said, we'll have to agree to disagree.

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SPM, says...
12:02pm Wed 22 Aug 07

bOLLO, I WOULD SUGGEST THAT YOU HAVE A RECORD AS LONG AS YOUR ARM SO REJECT LAW ABIDING CITIZENS BEING PROTECTED BY A POLICE FORCE THAT IS OBVIOUSLY OVERWHELMED. GOODBYE

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Ragnar, Brandenburg-Preussen . says...
12:35pm Wed 22 Aug 07

Peter J, Wirral
If you have a problem with the Police dont bother phoning them next time someone breaks in to you shed, slashes your car tyres ot assaults you in the street.


To which the answer will be, "Sorry we are too busy stopping cars for minor offences around the county. We may send someone around to take a statement next....ahhh....in four weeks time."

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Ragnar, Brandenburg-Preussen . says...
12:35pm Wed 22 Aug 07

Peter J, Wirral
If you have a problem with the Police dont bother phoning them next time someone breaks in to you shed, slashes your car tyres ot assaults you in the street.


To which the answer will be, "Sorry we are too busy stopping cars for minor offences around the county. We may send someone around to take a statement next....ahhh....in four weeks time."

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captain happy, birkenhead says...
12:35pm Wed 22 Aug 07

Making friends again bollo? Thats nice. I think SPM might be on to something there. Maybe thats why your such a staunch supporter of the homeless,because,YES
! You are a Lady of the night!!!!!

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Mr Bollo, says...
12:44pm Wed 22 Aug 07

SPM wrote:
bOLLO, I WOULD SUGGEST THAT YOU HAVE A RECORD AS LONG AS YOUR ARM SO REJECT LAW ABIDING CITIZENS BEING PROTECTED BY A POLICE FORCE THAT IS OBVIOUSLY OVERWHELMED. GOODBYE
SPM, STOP SHOUTING, I'M NOT DEAF!!! And no, for the record, I don't have a 'criminal' record, although I do have a very nice vinyl collection.

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Mr Bollo, says...
12:50pm Wed 22 Aug 07

captain happy wrote:
Making friends again bollo? Thats nice. I think SPM might be on to something there. Maybe thats why your such a staunch supporter of the homeless,because,YES ! You are a Lady of the night!!!!!
captain, if you are looking to make friends, then I think you are on the wrong sort of website. Do you actually have a point to make in relation to this article?

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Brian, In Exile says...
3:06pm Wed 22 Aug 07

To wind your neck in - HMG don't need to have an interest in you to collect the data. You're swept up along with the rest of the populace in the hope that, *somewhere* in there, will be something they want to see. And yes, Government IT projects are an unmitigated disaster. Doesn't stop them doing them, though, does it? The more incompetent they are, the more it actually scares me, to be honest. When "computers" are seen by offcialdom as always giving the correct answers, corrupted or misentered data is dangerous if you happen to be the unlucky one. And as regards my "faith in I.T.", I was responsible for writing systems, and not (to my eternal relief) the people who used them. The systems can work perfectly, but when they bring in a bunch of minimum wage tame monekys to operate them, then the old saying "garbage in, garbage out" is proven yet again.

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captain late tea, birkenhead says...
7:43pm Wed 22 Aug 07

Not really.

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Rob, Blahzil says...
11:05pm Wed 22 Aug 07

Winston Smith...apologies, I stand corrected. I did read it somewhere though. Orwell was asked, why did you call the book 1984? "I agreed with my publisher to call it 1984, as, by transposing the last two digits of the year it was completed, (he started in 1945) the points I was trying to make in the novel about what was happening in my own time were all the better demonstrated". Also a secret Metropolitan Police file reveals that he was under surveillance by Special Branch for more than 12yrs of his life. I have probably read someone discussing the possibility that the book might have been censored if it had been thought he was actually writing about 1948.

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Winston Smith, says...
8:49am Thu 23 Aug 07

That's OK old chap. I blame the internet - there's a lot of inaccurate information out there! Keeps us busy at Minitru I can tell you. Must dash, it's almost time for the '2 minute hate'...

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captain sarge, birkenhead says...
4:20pm Thu 23 Aug 07

I think the police are great,not too keen on their latest album though! God I'm so funny,I hve literaly weed my pants.Again.

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Dave Rimmer, Wallasey says...
10:59pm Fri 24 Aug 07

"Weed" your pants.......think your more likely to have been smoking it.

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jack Frost, My lawless front room says...
10:01am Sat 25 Aug 07

The police are there to save us from ourselves, as we're all insecure and paranoid, have you ever listened to message in a bottle ?

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