David McKelvey, the creator of TM Eye, was a Scotland Yard detective chief inspector in the past.
A former Scotland Yard detective who leads ‘Britain’s first private police force’ says locals in the communities it patrols ‘finally feel safe’ thanks to his staff investigating and prosecuting cases of burglary and shoplifting ditched by the Met.
A talented group of ex-detectives with backgrounds in terrorism, armed robbery, and other serious crimes make up TM Eye. Businesses and homes pay them to patrol the neighbourhood and look into offences.
The company has now successfully brought to justice ‘one-man crime wave’ David Hanson, 44, who is the first burglar to be jailed following a private prosecution.
Today, founder David McKelvey insisted the case ‘wasn’t complex’ but an example of ‘community policing’ of the type British police forces used to be famed for.
He told MailOnline: ‘We have teams of bobbies and detectives on patrol constantly so they know all the prolific offenders. It was just a case of a detective seeing the CCTV and identifying the person who had committed the burglaries.
‘They then went out and found him very quickly and detained him. It’s all about community policing—having people on the streets who know their communities and keep those communities safe.
‘Across our beat, we’re seeing reductions in crimes like shoplifting. The feedback we’re getting from our communities is they finally feel safe. They know we’ll be there in two minutes. But outside of our areas, crime is booming.’
With 105 prior convictions, including 33 burglaries, Hanson entered into an M&S store in Streatham Hill, south London, stealing 20 bottles of prosecco and £500 worth of steak, sirloin, and T-bone.
But despite the serial offender being caught in the act on CCTV and the store manager offering to hand this to police, the Met refused to investigate.
TM Eye took over the case in its place. Although the organisation had successfully convicted over 280 shoplifters, this was the first burglary case it had handled.
Officers swiftly identified Hanson as a well-known shoplifter after seeing a video of him smashing through a glass window at M&S and taking expensive items.
They then headed to one of his local ‘haunts’ before performing a citizen’s arrest and getting him to admit the offence on their body-worn video, which was submitted to the court.
Hanson was sentenced to a year in prison for a total of five offences as a result. As The Telegraph has reported, they included four burglaries and one attack on M&S staff.
If every person in towns, cities, villages, and other localities were given the option to choose between using these for-profit companies and not paying taxes, I guarantee that there would be no police force left.
When a costly police force targets individuals for infractions on the road while ignoring large segments of the public that conduct violent crimes, theft, and disturbances, and they get away with it, it’s a harbinger of our impending doom because it will be a lot worse with private police—they will be just another crime gang.
These days, our police are little more than uniformed tax collectors, pursuing easy money by fining soft targets like drivers and free speech online, all the while ignoring trouble groups, thieves, muggers, rapists, and other criminal activity. It’s a complete waste of time and resources, and Sir Robert Peel must be rolling over in his grave because it’s all so pitifully sick.
The laws are the problem, not those breaking them. Theft is caused by poverty, but policing theft means policing poverty and being poor should not be a crime. We need to get rid of our idiotic government and most of our outdated laws. Just have a few sensible ones that don’t interfere with our freedoms because, without realising it, we have become a communist country, and we now need to fight for our freedoms.
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