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Thread: House Alarm going off at Brockley View
Post: RE: House Alarm going off at Brockley View
| The police won't routinely deploy to reports of an alarm going off unless someone has also witnessed something suspicious.
They will deploy to centrally-monitored alarms as invariably they will be ca... |
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Thread: House Alarm going off at Brockley View
Post: RE: House Alarm going off at Brockley View
| Unless you are witnessing a burglary in process or the alarm is a centrally monitored alarm then don't bother calling the police. If it has been going for more than 20 minutes call the council:
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16-04-2014, 09:44 PM |
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Thread: Noisy Energie Gym
Post: RE: Noisy Énergie Gym
| "who came first" is irrelevant in English Law when deciding whether something is a nuisance or not. It was enshrined in Sturges v Bridgman (1879) LR 11 Ch D 852 if anyone is interested. There is a nic... |
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30-01-2014, 03:28 PM |
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Thread: Parking on zigzags outside schools
Post: RE: Parking on zigzags outside schools
| Why are you calling the police? They don't have any power to enforce
Zig zags outside of schools as far as I am aware.
It's a responsibility of the local authority and their officers have the requ... |
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20-06-2013, 09:02 PM |
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Thread: Dog Excrement in HOP. Owners please be responsible!
Post: RE: Dog Excrement in HOP. Owners please be respons...
| [quote]My neighbour even caught an individual trying to deposit this in his wheels bin!![/quote]
Surely that's rather a lot better than leaving it on the floor.... |
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Thread: Shopping bag security searches
Post: RE: Shopping bag security searches
| I think it would depend - on how sophisticated the alarm system is, whether a staff member could have feasibly just forgotten to take a tag off or whether something else could set the alarm going.
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16-03-2013, 02:27 PM |
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Thread: Shopping bag security searches
Post: RE: Shopping bag security searches
| The only person that can forcibly stop and search you is a police officer* and only then if they have reasonable grounds to suspect that you have some form of prohibited item on you: for example, stol... |
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12-03-2013, 11:36 PM |
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Thread: Cuts to Lewisham Hospital A&E
Post: RE: Lewisham Hospital A&E to close?
| Thanks Barry. Will Mr Kershaw be attending? |
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05-12-2012, 07:12 PM |
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Thread: Incident in Stanstead Road 19-02-2012
Post: RE: Incident in Stanstead Road 19-02-2012
| [quote]The jury were told that none of the facts of the case were in dispute but they had to rule whether or not Asare was insane at the time of the offences. [/quote]
So, it certainly appears that... |
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07-11-2012, 02:47 PM |
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Thread: article in the guardian - Do you feel rich
Post: RE: article in the guardian - Do you feel rich
| I suppose because they are as variable as any other group of people: you have those pensioner who are rather well-off, having paid off their mortgage some time before they retired, have a lifetime of ... |
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16-09-2012, 02:35 PM |
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Thread: Loud party noise
Post: RE: Loud party noise
| Why would you call the police? It's not a police matter and the police have no powers to take any action against people causing a noise nuisance.
Call the council. |
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22-08-2012, 09:50 AM |
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Thread: Incident in Stanstead Road 19-02-2012
Post: RE: Police in Stanstead Road
| [quote]With the information we have, this looks to be a very worrying development, in my opinion. [/quote]
What information that we have makes this a "worrying development"?
The law on force (fo... |
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25-02-2012, 12:09 PM |
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Thread: Incident in Stanstead Road 19-02-2012
Post: RE: Police in Stanstead Road
| [quote=carole]But aren't they trained to deal with such incidents without resorting to tasers and guns?[/quote]
I take it you have never faced someone who is intent on doing you harm then? |
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22-02-2012, 01:15 PM |
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Thread: Incident in Stanstead Road 19-02-2012
Post: RE: Police in Stanstead Road
| Did you understand what it meant?
If "yes" - then, bingo! - That's language for you.
If no, never mind, use your imagination. |
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21-02-2012, 10:14 AM |
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Thread: Incident in Stanstead Road 19-02-2012
Post: RE: Police in Stanstead Road
| It's presumably being treated as a crime scene: hence for continuity purposes they need to know who's been in the scene and when - for things such as elimination of footprints etc if that becomes rele... |
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20-02-2012, 04:46 PM |
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Thread: Crime and Punishment
Post: RE: Crime and Punishment
| Deano, I didn't comment on what i thought of the legal situation. I Merely pointed it out to highligh the possible legal consequences of installing certain types
of "deterrent". |
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21-11-2011, 04:41 PM |
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Thread: Crime and Punishment
Post: RE: Intruders in garden
| Brian, anyone else who might consider placing traps or "deterrents" in their gardens, if I may point you to the Occupiers Liability Act 1984 and s.31 of The Offences Against the Person Act 1861.
Li... |
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20-11-2011, 07:35 PM |
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Thread: Bike Stolen From Shed in Middle of the Night
Post: RE: Bike Stolen From Shed in Middle of the Night
| I'm just a bit curious as to why you were (pleasantly) surprised by the police response? You were, after all, a victim of a burglary and the response seems pretty standard and what one would expect.
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11-10-2011, 09:24 PM |
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Thread: Thames Water at midnight
Post: RE: Thames Water at midnight
| I was once walking home at about 11pm at night and saw a couple of blokes fiddling with the manhole covers. I challenged them (I thought they were stealing manhole covers for the scrap metal to be hon... |
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16-07-2011, 11:36 PM |
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Thread: People's Day
Post: RE: People's Day
| [quote]I talked today to someone who went and really enjoyed themselves (smoked salmon sandwiches and strawberries and cream in the Mayor's tent!) The security at the entrance is apparently pretty tho... |
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12-07-2011, 05:58 PM |
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Thread: People's Day
Post: RE: People's Day
| People's day used to attract a lot of problems.
In recent years every police officer on the borough is drafted in to work on the day of the event - all days off cancelled etc.
Over the past few ... |
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05-07-2011, 11:56 PM |
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Thread: Anti-social behaviour in Trilby Road area
Post: RE: Anti-social behaviour in Trilby Road area
| no it doesn't.
It has a drinking control zone - under the Criminal Justice and Police Act 2001. A [b]discretionary[/b] power that allows a constable (or PCSO) to seize alcohol if they wish.
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12-04-2011, 01:29 PM |
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Thread: Anti-social behaviour in Trilby Road area
Post: RE: Anti-social behaviour in Trilby Road area
| indeed, nowhere there does it say that it is illegal for an under 18 to drink alcohol except in a pub. (save for under 5s - which it would be illegal) |
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12-04-2011, 12:08 PM |
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Thread: Anti-social behaviour in Trilby Road area
Post: RE: Anti-social behaviour in Trilby Road area
| since when was it illegal for someone under 18 to drink alcohol? (except in a pub, which it generally is). |
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12-04-2011, 11:31 AM |
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Thread: Anti-social behaviour in Trilby Road area
Post: RE: Anti-social behaviour in Trilby Road area
| [quote]Then if drinking alcohol against the law so The Police should rush round.
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Since when was drinkingn alcohol against the law? |
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12-04-2011, 10:58 AM |
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Thread: Burglaries
Post: RE: Burglaries
| [="Springcat"]How can it be that no one gets arrested[/quote]
Whatever gave you that idea? Just off the top of my head I can think of at least one person in the past couple of months that's been se... |
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bensonby |
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24-02-2011, 04:33 PM |
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Thread: Prisoners Getting The Vote
Post: RE: Prisoners Getting The Vote
| [quote=Roz]
By ' good citizens' do we include MP's and even several members of the police force themselves, as they have proved even very recently that they are not exactly squeaky clean. Then of cou... |
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11-02-2011, 11:38 PM |
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Thread: Are our police up tp the job ?
Post: RE: Are our police up tp the job ?
| It's all a little bit more complicated than it might first appear though isn't it?
With many crime there are little or no leads - or leads peter out pretty quickly. Even if a suspect is caught on C... |
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08-02-2011, 06:53 PM |
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Thread: Early hours car horn in Tewkesbury Ave
Post: RE: Early hours car horn in Tewkesbury Ave
| [quote="Brian"]
One should only use the Horn to warn moving vehicles that there is a danger.
Let us hope the Police arrested them
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Arrest them? That's a bit extreme isn't it? Surely a t... |
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04-02-2011, 09:00 PM |
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Thread: Mayow Road @ Perry Vale... what's happened?
Post: RE: Mayow Road @ Perry Vale... what's happened?
| From what I know it was a mentally-ill person running around with a knife.
They were safely detained and taken away to a secure mental hospital.
No-one was seriously injured. |
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