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EDIT: I have studied this and the Dave's Omega threads for how those officers "let us down" with an explanation. I can find no post. Where is it please? 
What the hell has this got to do with Dave's thread. You started a new thread asking why people thought the Police were useless and then recited an article about cutbacks and some Chief of Police knowing what the problem is with being thought of as useless.
I'll tell you just one example of why I think that, and I'd like your opinion on how you would defend their incompetence. I have posted about this before but people probably still think I'm anti Police.
A young girl leaves a party late at night. A disgruntled ex boyfriend attacks her with an iron bar. My son and daughter-in-law intervene and stop the attack. My son has his head cracked open when he turns his back on the attacker to check on the girl and ends up in hospital. The Police know the attacker (named by the girl) but won't go around his house that night as ' his mum is a nice lady and we don't need to disturb her so late at night'. As if that didn't annoy me, what happened next did. They went to his house the next morning, found the iron bar with skin and hair on and put it in an evidence bag and placed it in a Police van. It stayed there for long enough for the bag to sweat and the iron bar started to get surface rust on it. Police Officer knocks on our door and told us that the bar was now inadmissible in court. It turned out that the lad concerned was a druggie and that's how the coppers knew his mum was a 'nice lady'.
Lizzie, this is just one example of how I feel let down. It was an individual copper that wouldn't go to the house that night. It was an individual copper that put the iron bar in a van to sweat in the heat. It had nothing to do with 'The Force' or cutbacks.
Now can you understand why I get pissy when this subject comes up. If you really want to find the other reasons, just search OOF for 'Police' under my username. I'm not the only one either, many people on here have voiced their own personal experiences.
As for my comment on ex or serving officers, I didn't want it to become a copper kicking thread, as that can be what they appear to be once people voice their own experiences.
Because that is where the origins to the current discussion about police response, or non response started
Then: no, I explained a serious case that I was involved in where it was seen "the police" did not react in the right way, then the CPS were shown to be adverse to risk. I did not recite anything and did not say anything like "some Chief of Police knowing what the problem is with being thought of as useless" just a Chief Constable stating the justice system is broken, never admitting to them being "useless"
Now YZ250, let's start again........especially now you have fully explained your reasons why you are dissatisfied after being let down by the police (and I suggest by the CPS given what you say about the matter of the iron bar) which I greatly sympathise with. I would be pissed off as well!
You see your case it not too dissimilar to the one I explained. Certain facts about police and CPS perceived failures are linked. You, and I also agree that it is wrong to out and out slag off the police, and that is why I started this thread to outline what are perceived to be the problems. Indeed, you and I recognise that many officers do a good, if not great job, although actually, in practice, that is so frequently not seen by the general public. Often all that goes on behind the scenes is hidden.
But, I repeat, it is the numbers that can so often be the difference to what is perceived as a great response, to being the reverse. When a police control room have six, if they are lucky, police local patrols, with some being single manned, covering a huge chunk of a county, what can they do when there are separate knife attacks, physical assaults, a domestic with mental health issues, an armed robbery, and a car incident, with no one injured, oh, and then a report of a burglary in progress? They have to prioritise. Then some members of the public will be left impressed, others will be very disappointed and angry. Your understandable beef about the officer not going into the house MAY be one of those cases were he was single crewed - actually due to the cutbacks - and with no back up could not safely enter the property, and if they knew they could, safely, go there the next day, that is what that copper did. Health & Safety does affect the police and emergency services as I have hinted about, and they must not knowingly put their lives in danger, or anyone else's including fellow officers, although many routinely do as in the Reading incident
As for evidence gathering, that up until recently, could be often down to one PC who would be commanded to investigate a case, but was only able to do so when on duty. Now, I have been assured, the case like you mentioned, and the case I described, would be dealt with by a DS with a team, under what is called a "New Horizon" policy. With the extra 20k officers, once they are fully on stream in about two years time, things should get better.
So
I think you and I are not talking at cross purposes!
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