Sleeping householders are going to be woken up in the middle of the night to discover someone breaking into their house - only to discover it is the police.Of course burglary is made even easier when the police are engaged in obnoxious gimmicks- that treat the public like lowlifes- like this.
Police in Shoebury, Essex, have been going round testing doors and windows of houses to check if they have been left unlocked - and if they find an easy way in they will wake up the household to warn them their house is insecure
Don't they need warrants to enter people's property anyway?
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Lots of scope for egg on face too. I'm amazed they don't see it...
...well not amazed exactly.
This rang some bells - of the "this is a repeat of an 'initiative' tried before" type and them bells were right to start ringing
from 2010
http://menmedia.co.uk/macclesfieldexpress/news/s/1192162_watch_out_theres_a_policeman_about
Police are set to switch sides to warn you about home safety... by posing as burglars.
Residents could be dragged from their beds as late as 2am by police checking their windows and doors are locked in a new tactic to slash burglaries across Macclesfield.
And if the robber-cops find a way in, they won’t hesitate to hammer on the door until they wake you up, whatever the hour.
Code-named ‘Operation Golden’,the new initiative will work between 4pm and 2am, and householders who fall foul of their checks will be told: "If we had been burglars, by now you would have lost cash, valuables such as a laptop or an iPod, sentimental items such as jewellery and possibly the car off your drive!"
They wouldn't be doing this in the US, would they?
God, I hope someone farms out in Shoebury!
And what happens when if woken by the police the householder says things have recently disappeared so it must be the police what done it as they were the only people messing with their property.
Well yes.
It also gives a rogue officer a licence to actually steal.
Don't they need warrants to enter people's property anyway?
Not now. RIPA.
http://gavinayling.blogspot.co.uk/2006/12/regulation-of-investigatory-powers-act.html
XX James Higham said...
Don't they need warrants to enter people's property anyway? XX
Show us where it in any way insinuates that the police will be ENTERING the houses!
Any way, it WAS always a traditional "crime prevention" method, the copper "Trying door knobs" on night shift. I mean FUCK, it is even become part of the national psyche, so where is every ones problem with this? Or are you all morphed into Daily Mail reading scum, who will believe any old anti police shit the wankers at the Mail tell them to believe?
I wonder what will happen if some surprised householder leaps out of bed and lamps the policeman with a handy piece of 4x2?
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