Impressed with police response time!

[JimE]

I have only called 999 once, and I had to call them back after 15 mins to make sure they were coming. However when they did eventually arrive they did an excellent job.

I think they are good people, but just too stretched!

[Graham]

I've had to call emergency services on a few occasions and the response has been very good. However, on one occasion after dialling 999 the phone was not answered despite letting it ring for 15 minutes. Fortunately it wasn't a life threatening situation.

[Dean Lofthouse]

I've called the police at least thirty times in the last five years, from things ranging from drug dealing to indecent exposure to abduction and attested murder ( I live in a nice spot (-: ), the quickest response time I have ever had is 30 minutes the slowest is three days

[TGB]

I was erecting a sign on a roadside and a car pulled up on the other side. A rear window was wound down and I thought, they're lost in the country and want directions. So I put down my tools and started toward the car to ask if I could help. Some young lad leans out of the window, points a pistol at me and starts firing.

 

Fortunately he was a bad shot and I was moving full pelt, as I jump over the wall into the field beyond. I waited a short while and heard the car move away. Needed another sign and I was amazed by what had just happened.

 

I rang the police, who said they'd send someone round. That was on a Tues morning. Police arrived early evening on the Thurs and I was off that day. So although my colleagues new of the incident and could give a copy of the report I'd made out. They could not actually speak to me. I waited a couple of days more but no follow-up was made by the police. So I phoned them and was told, that since I wasn't hit and the cost of a replacement sign was less than fifty quid, they had closed the case.

Edited November 12, 2013 by TGB

[Graham]

I know of a chap who had his 4x4 taken off his yard. He saw them drive off. He phoned the police, told them what had happened but also told them he thought one of them was armed. The response was swift with helicopter and armed police quickly finding them. No firearm was found but he got his truck back:001_smile: