Why Do Police Say Bailiff Crime Is a Civil Matter?
Theft is only theft when the commoner commits it because it does not apply to bailiffs (or politicians and bankers).
Police place bailiffs in a class above the law because they believe bailiffs can do no wrong, whereas a commoner was handed a 1-year sentence for stealing 60p during the 2011 riots.
Police follow a list of criteria for deciding whether to investigate a report of fraud. You must learn the criteria and set out your complaint so it fits neatly into it. Otherwise police will summarily fob off your complaint.
Do not take it personally when you report bailiff crime to the police and you get palmed off with "it's a civil matter" or they start resisting your complaint. The police officer resisting your complaint may himself personally be guilty of an offence under Section 4 of the Criminal Law Act 1967 through Nelsonian Knowledge.
The Daily Telegraph made similar findings.
It is not the personal opinion of individual police officers. The police institutionally ignore or dismiss reports of bailiff crimes, particularly involving theft and fraud, and allow it to continue unchecked. This is why we now have a bailiff industry that is blighted with so much fraud and cowboy tactics that would otherwise never survive political scrutiny if bailiffs were building companies or another industry.
Police forces have a consistent method of resisting complaints of bailiff crime and the following list of excuses are generally applied in this order depending on how persistent you are:
- It's a civil matter
- It's not a police matter
- There's insufficient evidence
- Sorry, we didn't know the law
- It doesn't meet the criteria to be passed to the CPS for prosecution
Unless there is a very obvious case for an investigation, it will be hard work getting police to investigate the crime and interview the suspect.
If police investigated every crime committed by bailiffs, there would probably be no bailiffs left on the street because they would all be at police stations being interviewed or bailed pending further enquiries.
Always make a WRITTEN COMPLAINT so the police have an obligation to act, and you may get a home visit from a uniformed officer and later an Inspector with a uniformed WPC.
At the Inspector's visit, and before you all sit down and start with the pleasantries, you must ask for the CRIME number.
If you do not get one then you may as well end the meeting there and then.
This is because you have just proven the Police Inspector has no intention of investigating the crime, and he is only there to palm you off with excuses.
You must insist for the grounds the police are refusing to investigate, write everything down, then quickly end the home visit.
Contact the IOPC with a complaint of failure to investigate a crime. This could be what the police call "perverting the course of justice" or in criminal lawyer parlance "assisting an offender", an offence under Section 4 of the Criminal Law Act 1967 and possibly Section 5.