There was an interesting Twitter thread that I saw that summed up Britain’s semi-useless police forces. It concerns police in one force who were ‘too busy’ to check on a 12 year old girl who went missing and another force who refused to sake seriously the initial reports from the girl’s father that his daughter had disappeared.

It’s important to note at this point that we only have the complainant’s side of the story and not the side of the police, but the father’s account of the half-arsed way that both Essex and the Metropolitan police handled this incident is not unbelievable. Knowing the state of some of our police forces and what they’ve become it is quite possible to have one force, Essex, not take initial complaints of a missing girl not taken seriously until pressed and another force, the Met to say at one point that they did, ‘not have time’ to go and check on the girl at the address where she was eventually located safe and well.

For the record the girl was found safe and well and with a boy from her peer group not, as many people feared, a nonce or a nonce gang. The police in both Essex and in the Met area did eventually step up to the plate but the account by the father of the piss poor way he said he was treated by Essex Police when he initially reported the disappearance, does look to me to be a matter of concern. Officers from this force are alleged to have not taken seriously the report of the missing girl and I’m assuming that there are no factors, such as the missing person being either a non-vulnerable adult or a teenager who regularly runs away, the way that the father has been allegedly treated looks extremely bad.

In this piece I’ll summarise the Tweets but there is a link to the original thread here. I’ll also screenshot where needed.

A guy from the Essex coast, Rob Forbes, put out a tweet asking for help when his 12 year old daughter went missing on her way to school. Using cell phone location technology Mr Forbes was able to locate his daughter’s mobile phone to Highams Park in the Chelmsford area, about 50 miles from the girl’s home. Of course as any one of would do, when he realised that his daughter had not gone where she should have gone and had appeared to have disappeared, Mr Forbes called Essex Police. He alleged that he got a very dismissive response from the police officers of the Essex force that he reported the disappearance to.  Here’s some screenshots.

It is at this point we get a disturbing glimpse at how Essex Police treats the people that they should be helping and protecting instead of engaging in woke virtue signalling. To not take as a priority the disappearance of a young girl where the disappearance doesn’t appear to be usual behaviour is in my view disgraceful. It’s an especially egregious behaviour from Esses Police as Essex is a force that has threatened to expend resources and time to arrest people who criticise the force’s involvement in virtue signalling such marking the activist promoted and less than sound, at least from a data point of view, Trans day of remembrance and going all in for ‘Pride Month’.

Yes, Essex Police really do appear to take the attitude that saying critical things about their chosen minority pets is much more of a priority than a parent’s concern about his missing daughter. Truly Essex Police and their behaviour are good examples of why Britain’s police are increasingly distrusted and considered as functionally useless.

I’m mightily relieved that Mr Forbes’s daughter was found safe and well and that the police eventually pulled their fingers out. But when it comes to the matter of a missing child and where the disappearance might well be highly unusual, for the police to say ‘this is not a priority’ and presumably have to then get pushed into action, possibly because of social media pressure, is utterly disgraceful. It’s appalling but what else can be expected from a force that fawns over gay and trans issues whilst some of its larger towns are becoming cess pits of violent and sexual crime.