Police Waiting Times

jimmi5bellies · 28-03-2006, 13:53

Alec came home from school yesterday after having done his library duties and a meeting for his Duke of Edinburgh in tears. After coaxing what was wrong with it turned out that as he had left the school gates 2 asians and a white boy had set upton him, pinning him down to the floor and using his head as a football.
I immediately phoned the police, this was 4.50pm. Bu 9pm i was fed-up of waiting for them to arrive, so i drove Alec to Greenbank police station at Whitebirk. I had to talk to an operator through a yellow phone. I was not allowed into the police station and was promptly told to go home and wait for an Accrington officer to deal with it.
It was 11.30pm last night before they turned up, which in my opinion was too late for doing statements as they can go on for over an hour. The police officer will have to come back tonight at 8pm after parents evening, thats if he is not called away again to other incidents.
I have stressed in no certain terms that seeing as Alec recognises these lads as being fellow pupils at Moorhead and that he can name one of them that i will be prosecuting ! and no softly, softly approach either.

Who else thinks that turning up at 11.30pm to do a statement is a little late.

Also found out today that 2 asian lads and 1 white lad attacked another fellow pupil in school yesterday and the teachers didnt even have the powers to stop them. I am hoping that these are the same 3 that attacked my son.

Alec is fine, a few lumps and bruises. Luckily a bloke was walking by, when they saw him they did a runner.

Chrissie

Sara · 28-03-2006, 14:48

Sorry to read about your son, but it's absolutly disgusting having to wait that length of time. A couple of years ago the same thing happened to my son on his way home from school, must admit though the police did turn up within the hour. But getting anything done was a differant matter. Reason being that i had to deal with the same policeman who happened to be going on holiday a couple of days after the attack, and as it was on a Friday evening they couldn't do a lot till the Monday. I made such a stink, that eventually an inspector came to see us, and within hours they'd pulled a couple of lads in. Be as tough as you can be on these lads (within the law of course), it is (hopefully) one of the few things that might scare them and stop them doing it again. GOOD LUCK.

SPUGGIE J · 28-03-2006, 14:49

If the shoe had been on the other foot they would have come round for statements faster than a grizzly bear to the salmon run.

Basher · 28-03-2006, 14:59

That's disgusting and you have my sympathy.

The treatment that you received from the Police is terrible and the fact that the school could do little about what was going on just outside their gates is apauling although, that's the fault of the country at large and the silly laws by which institutions have to abide.

grannyclaret · 29-03-2006, 10:17

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Originally Posted by SPUGGIE J

If the shoe had been on the other foot they would have come round for statements faster than a grizzly bear to the salmon run.

i agree with spuggie.... its racial driscrimination in reverse.....:engsmil:

i hope alec is o.k.

entwisi · 29-03-2006, 10:26

there was a case recently where a guy rang up to say his car was being stolen, teh police said they couldn't get anyone there for an hour or two. He said, its OK then I sort it out with my baseball bat then, there were 4 cars there within 5 minutes. He got done for wasting police time!

grannyclaret · 29-03-2006, 10:41

the law is an ass,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,what a true saying that is!

pendy · 29-03-2006, 10:53

It's ludicrous for anyone to turn up at 11:30 and expect to take a statement, particularly from a minor. This is definitely an assault occasioning actual bodily harm, and the police should definitely refer it to the CPS. Did Alec get the name of the passer-by? and would he be a witness? That would help to shove the CPS in the right direction.

sparkie · 29-03-2006, 14:29

5 years ago I was beaten up outside a shcool in rawtenstall while waiting for a friend. I never even retaliated, I had an inch long gash under my lip, a bust nose, 2 black eyes, a loose tooth, a bust lip and plenty of cuts inside my mouth. I walked with my friend to his mothers works where they called an ambulance. I needed 4 stitches in the gash and 3 weeks before the swelling went down. I also missed a week of college and about 6 weeks of gigs, due to the injururies.

After being released from bury general, i went to rawtenstall police station where photos were taken of my injuries, and i was told it would be looked into.

A week later the police said they were dropping the charges as a lady, who just happened to be good friends with the parents of the boy involved, who couldn't possibly have seen what happened from her car 150yards away, had stated that 'the 2 young lads without uniform' had started it, which given the fact that i am female was a very strange comment to make!!! Although she admitted seeing me being thrown over a parked car!!!! The police took her word for it over ours as she was an adult and I was 18 and my friend 17.

That is when i lost faith in local policing they just can't be bothered to deal with these kinds of incidents, they are not interested in peoples safety or deterence of juveniles as it doesn't come high on their importance of crime listings, unless you are seriously injured or dead then they do not want to know. It's pathetic.

Oh and i have a scar from the gash as well, and I will never go around that area of rawtenstall again, all we were doing is picking a friend up from school.

Neil · 29-03-2006, 14:58

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Originally Posted by sparkie

I needed 4 stitches in the gash and 3 weeks before the swelling went down.

That sounds very painfull. I hope you made a swift recovery.

sparkie · 29-03-2006, 15:03

Yeah it was and a mess too. It knocked my confidence quite a bit.

the gash was made i found out by the lads medalion ring!!

archiveuk · 29-03-2006, 16:48

Sorry to hear about your son... stick with it though, ask the police what they have done to find the culprits, then ask them if it would have been the same effort had it been a police officer attacked? watch thier faces!!!

mrskitty · 29-03-2006, 19:12

I had to ring the police a few week back because of Mount Carmel students although im pleased to say they dealt with it straight away,a group of them decided it would be funny to stand behind the fence at bullough park and throw snowballs at passing vehicles that was bad enough but then they thought it would be good to throw them at Jack, my 10 month old son

what goes through these teens minds to do such things?its disgusting.

Neil · 29-03-2006, 19:31

Chrissie - I hope he is ok soon, what did the school say about it?

keyco · 29-03-2006, 20:07

i go moorhead and its like that all the time with asians think they rule the school everyone is told if you walk around in a group of 5+ then youll be asked by a teacher what are you doing but they dont give one about the asians they can do anuthing they can and get away with it