By: Paul Tring

Paul Tring — Fri, 08 May 2009 12:01:21 +0000

Alan,
Unfortunately this is the norm now.Of the dozens of crimes I have reported over recent times I can’t recall ever having received a prompt response from the police.The most frightening incident was when my 17 year old daughter was physically assaulted by drunken yobs. My wife was in the garden with my our grandchildren when the yobs came down the alley shouting obscene language,she politely asked them to tone down their language because the grandchildren were present. They reacted by turning their abuse on my wife at which point my daughter went out to remonstrate with them. They then attacked my daughter and proceeded to throw beer cans at the windows whilst shouting further abuse. The Police had no-one available to attend the incident but incredibly rang us back 24 hours later to ask if the offenders were still on site!!We did manage to get an apology fro the police but what use is an apology after the event.
To make matters worse local residents later received a letter from Inspector Simon Alland (Kent Police)informing residents how well they were doing in tackling crime and it was perception of crime that was the problem because crime was falling.
I took the trouble of writing to Inspector Alland listing some of the incidents and pointing out that the list of crime reference numbers I had in front of me were very real. I never received a reply

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By: Paul Tring