In Britain we’ve got all too used to living in a country where the police are policing everything except real crime. Police officers from numerous forces will turn out en masse to arrest or intimidate women who state that women don’t have penises or harass Britons criticising Islam or those citizens who forcibly move the idiots of Just Stop Oil out of the road. However when it comes to real crime of the sort that impinges on decent Britons, the police just can’t be arsed to act.

A good example of Britain’s non-policing police forces is the British Transport Police (BTP). They have introduced a policy that they will not investigate bicycle thefts from railway stations if the bike had been left for more than two hours. British Transport Police state that they have this policy to avoid having to look through hours of CCTV even though bikes parked at stations are probably bikes belonging to commuters who by necessity will be leaving their bikes for more than two hours whilst they go to work.

A cyclist writing for The Daily Mirror said:

I’d left my bike locked in the dedicated cycle hub at my local station and returned to find it gone. It had cost me more than £500, and with a £250 excess on my insurance, so it was an expensive loss.

I reported the theft to the British Transport Police and because the hub is covered by CCTV I optimistically held out some hope that the culprit might be identified.

No chance – because the police now only look at CCTV footage if the owner was away from their bike for two hours or less, and I was away from my bike for three hours.

“We don’t investigate any bike that’s left for over two hours,” an apologetic officer told me.

“If you park your bike in the cycle store at say 9 o’clock and you came back at 11 then we would be able to investigate and check the CCTV, anything over that, if you came back at 12 o’clock, then we wouldn’t be able to check the CCTV because two hours is the maximum time.

“It’s the amount of footage and officer’s time tied up looking at it.”

This is the performance, or rather lack of it, that Britons have come to expect not just from the British Transport Police but from all police forces. Too often police forces will not be arsed with tackling the sort of crime that bothers and disturbs British people but will shovel resources into stuff like Pride related bollocks and suggesting that those who are critical of the gender identity ideology should not work for them. British police forces are in a mess and are that way not merely because of resource issues, but because of their own decisions and actions. We deserve better and more equitable policing than we are currently getting and this BTP policy of not viewing CCTV even when it is more than likely to show the theft in question, shows just how poor our current policing is.