Stolen Stihl concrete saw with tracker fitted

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[dan blocker]

Not interested in following up and arresting anybody. So the thick pc plod picks up the Stihl disc cutter with a piece of brown paper on the handles where anyone would pick it and possibly destroy any finger prints🤔🤔. No wonder these scum go out time and time again thieving cos the chance of getting done is next to ZERO. What’s the bloody point🙄. 
Had an incident where I had on video two scrotes walking around my property. Got them picking up a 20 litre drum and checking to see if there was fuel in it. When the police turned up one of them picked up the drum by the handle on top to take it away for forensics😳 “useless” is too kind a comment?

[Mark Bolam]

They are pathetic.

 

If someone was 30kg over in their truck they would probably have had the gun squad there.

[spuddog0507]

47 minutes ago, dan blocker said:

Not interested in following up and arresting anybody. So the thick pc plod picks up the Stihl disc cutter with a piece of brown paper on the handles where anyone would pick it and possibly destroy any finger prints🤔🤔. No wonder these scum go out time and time again thieving cos the chance of getting done is next to ZERO. What’s the bloody point🙄. 
Had an incident where I had on video two scrotes walking around my property. Got them picking up a 20 litre drum and checking to see if there was fuel in it. When the police turned up one of them picked up the drum by the handle on top to take it away for forensics😳 “useless” is too kind a comment?

I watched it last night and thought the same, not interested,, 4 police officers i attendance for a £700 ct off saw  ??

[Dan Maynard]

I can stick up for the police a bit, two of my break-ins have contributed evidence to arrest and convict those involved. In both cases they were already suspected so cctv contributed extra evidence.

 

Unfortunately these were times nothing was taken, not the times the stump grinder or trailer were stolen.

[Dan Maynard]

I do like the look of those trackers though, they are inactive most of the time so not detectable with a scanner. Also have RF and GSM cell location so not blocked by GPS jamming.

[doobin]

Automatrics is who I use. I’m hoping if it’s ever nicked my proximity to their offices should mean I’m high priority for one of their snatchback videos. 

[Mark Bolam]

The problem is if it’s in a pikey camp it won’t be coming back.

[Steven P]

How easy is it to hide a tracker? Can they go in the bowels of the machine or do you just need to take the plastic covers off to see it? Different in a large machine like a chipper or a van where there are 100s of hiding places but a small machine? Take the cover off, rip out the tracker, and away you go I think

[Dan Maynard]

Can't see it being easy to hide on a concrete saw, but then they obviously didn't look.

 

Seems sometimes if the trackers are easy to find they are ripped out before the machine is taken, otherwise the chipper/digger is just nicked and then parked up somewhere quiet to see if anyone comes after it. I've heard of caravans loaded into containers soon after nicking too, then the GPS signal isn't strong enough to work inside the metal box.

 

It's never going to be a guarantee, but without the tracker you can do nothing more than wonder which way it went. Know that feeling too.