Police target car crooks (From Echo)
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Police target car crooks
5:13pm Tuesday 21st February 2012 in Basildon By Gina Marden
POLICE have been targeting convicted car thieves.
Officers have been filming and following crooks across Basildon who break into and steal vehicles as part of a hardline crackdown.
*Full special report in Thursday's Echo
Comments(6)
APR
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12:22pm Wed 22 Feb 12
Low Life get arrested, then released without charge. That's the usual format
resident3
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1:59pm Wed 22 Feb 12
What a cunning way to detect crime!
No wonder detectives call them "wooden tops"
MaxSteel
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2:46pm Wed 22 Feb 12
The Cater Wood Creeper
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6:01pm Wed 22 Feb 12
Of course that might mean them actually going out on patrol in the dark.....
Last Poster
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12:51am Thu 23 Feb 12
resident3 wrote:Er, Are you then saying the CID detectives were not the ones doing the filming? You make everything sound like it is the uniform policemen's failure. That is like saying it is the bank tellers who caused the financial crash in this country and not the gamblers at the top. This may surprise you, but most PC's have to do whatever "Sir" tells them. Using initiative is a little against the hierarchy of that institution and sadly, the way this country is now run!
Crikey! Whatever will the police think of next?
What a cunning way to detect crime!
No wonder detectives call them "wooden tops"
EthanEdwards says...
11:29am Wed 22 Feb 12