Submission + - British Transport Police Decriminalize Bicycle Theft (bbc.com) 8
An anonymous reader writes: The British Transport Police (BTP) says it will not investigate bike thefts outside stations where the bicycle has been left for more than two hours.
Commuters leave thousands of cycles on racks outside stations every day, including in specially built bike parks with CCTV. Critics say the BTP policy means those facilities are not secure and theft has effectively been decriminalised.
Any bikes stolen worth less than £200 will not be investigated, neither will car thefts if the vehicle has been left for more than two hours.
Commuters leave thousands of cycles on racks outside stations every day, including in specially built bike parks with CCTV. Critics say the BTP policy means those facilities are not secure and theft has effectively been decriminalised.
Any bikes stolen worth less than £200 will not be investigated, neither will car thefts if the vehicle has been left for more than two hours.
But jokes on Twitter are investigated. (Score:2)
But jokes on Twitter are investigated. UK is 1984.
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"We never have but our time is too valuable to keep pretending we will so we're just going to come out and say - some crime is ok".
\o/ - free 'ex' police vehicles going cheap on eBa (Score:1)
> neither will car thefts if the vehicle has been left for more than two hours.
Does this mean that someone could steal one of your cars and as long as it's been standing for over two hours, they can keep it with no questions asked? Awesome.
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Who else wants to go car shopping?
Betcha there's a Rolls or two sitting around London! We'll just see if we can hitch a ride on a freighter.
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No. Just because the police won't investigate doesn't mean it's "legal". The police are still investigating the operations that take these cars and cut them up or ship them abroad. If you have a tracker, they will investigate if you can tell them where the car has been taken.
They are essentially saying that you need to secure your own stuff and pressure the station operator to install CCTV. Otherwise it's just a waste of police time, because they have no leads, and no real prospect of recovering the goods.
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Citation needed.
This is fixable. (Score:2)
Whoever made this decision should be forced to ride their bicycle to work from now on, and must "park" it in the same location as used by all us peons.
After a few days and a few bicycles, I think they'll change their tune.
It gets better... (Score:2)
lol