Hi Vike
I did reconsider my post, which I felt was an honest reflection on my feelings, but wasn't very friendly/fair to you - sorry for any offence caused.
I have used the system the Parkside station use for registering property and flagging it as stolen.
I tried contacting them online, but the link is broken (as is the one to their recovered bike scheme, and their autions of recovered bikes).
Only option is to phone, which I will do at some stage, but I got nothing at all out of them last time I tried (2 years ago, a Dawes racer), don't expect anything this time (Dawes hard tail). Thing is the phone call will cost the earth from my mobile (T-Mobile) as their number is not a "landline" (0345).
I do understand that they do have more serious crime to deal with, I don't mind doing the donkeywork, but they don't even have opening times for their recovered bike store online, seems I have to phone and waste their time just to find out.
One way or another I've had various property stolen over the years, the only thing the Police have ever done is give me a crime number if I needed one. One incidence was a car broken in to, mobile phone taken, calls were made after it was taken, I thought they'd be able to follow that up .... no.
I don't want to slag the Police off, just I don't think they'll be able to do a single thing for me - call it lack of resourcing or whatever, end result is the same, why build expectations that they may be able to help, then just to find they still can't.
Sorry to be so negative
Nige