NEED THE POLICE? TELL THEM YOU HAVE BEEN RACIALLY ABUSED

If you have a break in and the police say they are too busy to attend here’s a tip...

Just tell ‘em the burglar made a racist comment as he fled your premises.

It doesn’t matter he didn’t ........just tell the police he did. 
In a New York second you will have the entire Kensington police force at your service!

Mr. X is an elderly and long-time resident of this Borough: a man of seventy and impeccable character.

He fell into a dispute with a neighbour who persistently dumped rubbish bags on the pavement on non-collection days.

Our elderly resident politely asked him to refrain and was met with a barrage of abuse.... a calm discussion turned acrimonious.

Mr X decided that discretion was the better part of valour and retreated.

Four months after the incident you can imagine Mr X's shock, horror and extreme stress to receive an email from a PC Arthur Burrell asking him to attend Kensington Police Station to be investigated over a four month enquiry into alleged racially aggravated public order offence

The complainant was his Italian neighbour who embroidered his racial abuse story by saying the old boy had tried to assault him...a bit odd seeing as the Italian was half his age, very aggressive and frighteningly muscular.....

PC Burrell proposed a number of dates one of which required our elderly fellow with a weak heart to get up at 06:00 to be interviewed at 07:30.

Declining Mr. X was told he would have to come in on Saturday: again declined as he had other commitments.

Finally, a slightly more civilised time of 08:30 was chosen. 
Our solid local citizen arrived at Kensington Police Station to be greeted by a MPS receptionist having a bit of banter with two young female colleagues. 
Clearly irritated at being disturbed he yelled to PC Burrell, “there’s a guy here to see you”!

The ten-minute interview completed Mr. X was told he was free to go.

The following day he received an email from PC Burrell saying, “due to lack of evidence a decision has been made that no further action will be taken against yourself"

So, what was achieved in those four months of investigation taking many hours of police time?            Zilch

Worse-a member of the public with nothing more than a speeding offence was the subject of mendacious, vexatious and police time wasting  complaint.
Properly handled by the police the matter could have been closed down at the outset with an informal interview.

Don’t believe the police when they say they are short of resources: this incident proves they have time on their hands to stress out an innocent local resident of impeccable character.