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Am I wasting police time by reporting a minor crime or am I letting standards slip by not reporting it?

On a little holiday with the family. Nothing special just some quality time. The wife hates staying in too much so we went down the sea front arcade with the 10 month old just as a walk and there are a couple machines she can ride

Anyways some local lad nicked my wallet. (Saw him on cctv after the event)

Now In the grand scene all that’s gone is the wallet. £25 cash, a credit card and a bank card (both frozen within 10 mins on the apps and now reported stolen via the app) driving licence is prob the most annoying as that’s cost me £20 but £45 no-one was hurt

So question is do I report it or just chalk it up to tough luck
 

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Am I wasting police time by reporting a minor crime or am I letting standards slip by not reporting it?

On a little holiday with the family. Nothing special just some quality time. The wife hates staying in too much so we went down the sea front arcade with the 10 month old just as a walk and there are a couple machines she can ride

Anyways some local lad nicked my wallet. (Saw him on cctv after the event)

Now In the grand scene all that’s gone is the wallet. £25 cash, a credit card and a bank card (both frozen within 10 mins on the apps and now reported stolen via the app) driving licence is prob the most annoying as that’s cost me £20 but £45 no-one was hurt

So question is do I report it or just chalk it up to tough luck

Definitely report. As it's on CCTV the police will see him and will hopefully know him. You have all the evidence and if it stops it happening again you've done a good deed for a smallish price. Pain in the arse though, especially on holiday.
 

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Have to admit I had the form all filled in on my phone ready to submit and then had a thought of is there a point

But have now clicked submit . Hopefully they catch him

Don’t care about the cash. Or the cards. The wallet prob had more value to me being a present from the wife lol

All that matters I guess was that none of us got hurt. Even pushing my daughters pram over or something plays over in my mind if I had seen em
 
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Have to admit I had the form all filled in on my phone ready to submit and then had a thought of is there a point

But have now clicked submit . Hopefully they catch him

Don’t care about the cash. Or the cards. The wallet prob had more value to me being a present from the wife lol

All that matters I guess was that none of us got hurt. Even pushing my daughters pram over or something plays over in my mind if I had seen em
You’ve absolutely done the right thing, no one was hurt this time and it’s bothering you, what if next time someone was hurt and you reporting the scumbag has prevented it from happening.
Hopefully he’ll get what’s coming.
 

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If you ignore it, you condone it

If you report it , it may mean that this behaviour gets nipped in the bud and the kid goes on to be a half decent member of society ( of course it may not)

Many crims start on the small petty stuff and over time move onward and upward, if you do nothing you are helping to perpetuate the problem
 

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If you ignore it, you condone it

If you report it , it may mean that this behaviour gets nipped in the bud and the kid goes on to be a half decent member of society ( of course it may not)

Many crims start on the small petty stuff and over time move onward and upward, if you do nothing you are helping to perpetuate the problem

Very good point Phil. I have reported the crime online to Essex police now

Shame it put a sour point on a nice family get away
 

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100% right to report it. It's a crime and you may get lucky and help prevent this from happening to another person.

I'm sorry it has affected your holiday. I got my pocket picked on holiday in Spain 14 years ago and it still angers me even though I got it back with everything still in it.
 

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Mate,

100% report it mate. Iron CCTV there is a good chance that the person could be known to Police already, also there could be a spate of these happening and your CCTV could be the first time he has been caught on camera.

Out of interest what town did this happen in ?

Hope you still managed to have a good relaxing family holiday mate.
 

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Done the right thing 100%. If the idiot isn't caught he'll keep doing it. Others may not be as lucky and a loss of that amount of cash could make a big difference

My mate did joke when I told her that my system of never carrying too much cash and changing to a holiday wallet finally paid off lol long term game


Midnight, happened in st osyths near clacton . Wife’s on maternity leave still so we doing lots of little short breaks to build memory’s with the little lady before she has to return to work end of June
 

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Not wasting police time but probably wasting your own time reporting it to the police as nothing will get done.
 

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Not wasting police time but probably wasting your own time reporting it to the police as nothing will get done.

I’m actually pleased with this new online reporting system. I’d hate to wait around for an officer to take a statement. Managed to fill the form in on my phone within 10 mins and got my reference number this morning

Like you say prob nothing will be done but it’s reported. Technically they have my address the yobbos as my licence was in there so could go raid my house so least reporting it would provide evidence of who likely would have done that if it was done etc.

Roll on home time tomorrow get back to normality and some golf lol to think I wasn’t even suppose to be on this holiday this one was her , little lady and her best mate off for 4 nights to unwind but bestie dropped out and I had to go. 3 days on the course lost lol and a wallet
 

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Don't report it set up a vigilante group and find him chop off both his arms and send it to his family as a warning 😁

In all serious you did the right thing in reporting it, and glad its just a small loss to you rather than something more serious
 

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Don't report it set up a vigilante group and find him chop off both his arms and send it to his family as a warning 😁

In all serious you did the right thing in reporting it, and glad its just a small loss to you rather than something more serious

You're from Glasgow - do you really think we believe you are only joking :lol:
 

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If it had happened to you would you have reported it?

I was defrauded a week past Wednesday, was on the phone to the police with the suspect in my grasp, there is a police station less than 200 yards from where the incident took place, but rather than just send someone right away, all they did was take down details, I'm still awaiting them coming to speak to me about it and all of this would have been on camera.
 
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I think you'd need to report it to make any insurance claim (had your loss been more significant and dependent on excess terms in the policy) but always best reported I agree.

I reported a break in to my car (stereo, jacket, cds etc nicked, tyre punctured, door lock jimmied and wrecked) close to Durham a good few years ago. Really frustrating and a big inconvenience - lost work, insurance claims, car garaged for repairs etc. Reported it and the WPC wore a look like I was wasting my time and she was probabaly right, next to no chance of catching thief or too small a case to put resources too, not sure. Never heard a peep unsurprisingly. CCTV is the only chance you've got of catching the thief I think.

Always report it. Whether it gets seriously followed up, who knows, police are stretched.
 
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