'We took our bike back from thieves'

“Rosemary, Yes I appreciate that that's why I asked the person who red arrowed me to explain it. The fact is that confidence in the police is probably now at it's lowest ebb.

Several years ago I used to give a series of monthly talks to a group of retired and semi retired professional people. At the end I used to have ten minutes for a quick Q&A. One day I asked the group who trusted the police to do their job. I was astounded to find that in a group of 31 people, 27 didn't! Now this is a group who could be said to be traditional supporters of the police and that is seriously worrying.”

“Maxmin - you could probably write a book on the seeming inadequancies of the police force with an abundance of 'evidence'. And there is probably a reader who could write a book on the wonderful officers and the extradordinary work that they do, and who show they are in the force because they care and not just a pay packet. My comment related to you being red arrowed and a possible reason why, not to whether the police did their job or not.”

“Rosemary, if that is indeed the case I wonder if the person who left me the red arrow would tell us exactly what the police with all their manpower, technology and expertise did accomplish?

It was only a couple of weeks ago a young girl tracked down the thug who attacked her brother using Facebook after the police failed to catch him.

I read in the trade press where a taxi driver in Bedford who was assaulted and robbed on reporting the crime to the police was told that the crime 'was not serious enough to investigate'. He later received an apology which stated "When the victim made his formal crime report later in the day he did not receive the kind of service we would normally expect to provide" . The spokeswoman then went on to say 'We take offences against taxi drivers very seriously' which was obviously a blatant lie as they couldn't be bothered.

When someone tried to kill me by dropping a large concrete block on to my vehicle one evening, I went straight to the police station to be told by a Sergeant they would not be investigating it as 'it would cost too much'. They didn't even bother to take a statement, it wasn't until the story appeared in the local press that they deigned to say - you've guessed it ' We take this sort of thing very seriously'.”

“maxmin - the red arrow probably came because of slating the police.”

“Interesting to see that someone would rather thieves kept their loot by red arrowing me!”

“Well done! Why should you have to ask nicely to get your own property back, presumably the police couldn't be bothered.”