A frantic mother faced scumbag robbers and took back a bike they had allegedly swiped earlier this week after claiming that police officers didn’t want to help.
Hayley Tully was left seething after a bunch of hooligans lifted a bike belonging to her daughter’s boyfriend on Wednesday, so decided to take matters into her own hands.
The determined mother of two set out in the car with her daughter Robyn and soon tracked the criminals down, squandering no time in casually jumping out and seizing the bike back off them.
Video filmed by Robyn in the passenger seat shows Ms Tully on the roads of her hometown in Formby, Merseyside as she does a U-turn after spotting the bicycle being ridden by one of the robbers.
It comes as police forces were criticised for increasingly failing to tackle the crime that matters to ordinary people: petty thefts, mobile phone snatches and break-ins, and as they come under increased scrutiny following scandals which revealed institutional misogyny, discrimination and homophobia which has destroyed the public’s confidence.
A report out this month revealed how the police’s ability to solve crimes has dramatically declined, with charge rates tumbling to a third of what they were in 2015.
The emergency services are facing tremendous pressures, and are taking as long as 18 hours to respond to 999 callouts such as burglaries and domestic incidents, data has revealed.
The time taken to respond to Grade Two incidents, in which there’s no threat to life but the call is a priority situation rose to four hours and 20 minutes on average in 2021, up from three hours just two years previously.
Most forces have targets of one hour for these types of calls, but the worst offenders Gloucestershire Constabulary took an average of 18.5 hours in 2021, which was followed by Derbyshire Constabulary at 15.1 hours and Avon and Somerset Police at 12.9 hours.
So folks, if you’re being beaten up in your home, don’t worry about it because the police are going to take about 18 hours to get to you, and no wonder public confidence is hanging on by a thread, and of course, the taxpayer pays for this service, or should I say, what service?
His Majesty Chief Inspector of Constabulary Andy Cooke advised officers to stay out of political issues and stop interfering in Twitter spats, and instead concentrate on preventing and solving crime and disorder.
This is shameful that the police refuse to do anything. It will lead to worse problems in no time, and the police likely won’t do much about that either – this country is such a mess.
We are taxed on our wages, taxed on our property, but if you want to keep your possessions safe, then you have to put your life at risk because the police are too rhapsodised about Facebook and Twitter to concern themself with anything else.
But we don’t want them to have too much power. We don’t want them doing what they want because then it will just become a police state and they’ll be telling you what you can and can’t do, but let’s just think about who’s reduced police staffing numbers by the thousands in the last 13 years. Oh yes, the good old Conservative Party because it doesn’t affect them, they have their own protection and now, we have none.
There’s no deterrent anymore. Teenagers and bagheads are untouchable, and if people have to defend themselves, then what’s the point of having police? Robbing a bicycle might seem like a petty crime to them, but to that person, it was their possession that they bought and paid for out of their earnings.
Now, of course, I’m waiting for someone to comment and say that it probably came out of their dole money. Well, it might have, but nonetheless, they would have had to save for that, which would have taken time and patience, to have it robbed by some knucklehead, and that’s not right either.
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