Crankarm
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Once again, I feel a couple of posters are being over-zealous. One has to learn when to pick one's battles. To discriminate between a crime that's worth reporting and a crime that'll simply cause hassle to the person doing the reporting.
I'd strongly suggest you ignore the advice to contact the chief constable of Northumbria Police and/or the IPCC. It'll just cause you a load of heartache.
Do you think it acceptable that a police officer to avoid doing any work or investigating on a matter regarding a criminal offence starts bullying a witness and suggesting they have committed offences when they haven't? Are you a supporter of the cosy PR arrangements the police had with News International? Where crime occurs the police have a statutory duty to investigate. In this instant case there is strong evidence showing the driver committing a road traffic offence. It is very unsatisfactory that the copper tasked with dealing with this matter feels he CBA to waste his time on it. The instant offence might only be using a mobile phone whilst driving a vehicle, but this a potentially a very serious hazard activity to be doing whilst driving and has very serious implications for road safety. Perhaps the cops don't consider that road safety is that important as the copper has then gone on to suggest/accuse the witness ie Dan, who perfectly legitimately took the footage of the driver committing an offence, of offences himself in the hope that he (Dan) will be frigthened off pursuing the matter and drop it. Surely if Dan has spent time and money (cost of the cam) to obtain evidence such as this when he sees drivers using phones whilst driving and then taking the time to report the matter to the police and also been willing to submit his video evidence, then the least the police can do is investigate it properly and thank him for his trouble. It is not as if the police actually have to do much work as Dan has the video footage. It's an easy point for them. The police's response so far is disgraceful. Period.