Yet Another Happy Customer

When it comes to victims, there are several types.

There is the "moaning victim" who always moans about the police response, and that we never do anything.
There is the "happy victim" who is more than happy with the service we provide them, and finally, there is the "couldnt give a toss" victim who call us, we arrive and take details, but then they dont want to take it any further.

Each of these has their own reasons for being how they are. Now the other night I had just left the nick after booking a prisoner in and spending 2 hours in custody when a call came in for the town centre on a grade one. As I was heading that way I took the call and made my way to town (not a grade one driver). Arrived at the location and awaited someone to present themselves to me as I had no clue who the caller was, and with large amounts of people around, this didnt help (it was very busy as pubs/clubs were kicking out)

So a lad comes to myself and my collegue and takes us to a shop doorway where a very upset girl is. She is about 20 years old I would say. She is with a couple of mates and is in tears. Her mates tell us that her ex boyfriend came and assaulted them all. My collegue takes details as I talk to the lass. She was in a state (emotionally - she didnt have any obvious injuries). She was going on and on how we dont give a shit and never do anything and that its happened before etc etc. I ask her where she lives and her two mates and how they are getting home. With people started to crowd around and her scared he will return we go and sit in the car, and I decide that its best to take them all home, the taxi ranks are very very busy and she was very very worried he would return and was in a right state. So we sat in the car and I drove off from the town centre out of sight of nosey members of the public wanting to know what is going on.

They are drunk so cant take a statement from them but told them what they should do in the morning as in give us a call.

You may be thinking what has this got to do with the original types? Well, when we first arrived she was adament that we wouldnt do anything to help, couldnt give a toss and are useless and would let him get to her again. In the space of 15 minutes I had managed to get rid of this view and show that we do care.

This is great as its things like this which will make members of the public's confidence in the police force improved, which ofcourse can only be a good thing!!

On a personal note, I also felt happier that I helped this lass in particular due to the state she was in and the two lads!

On a side note to the above incident, I also paid a visit to various people who have reported crimes on my sector in the past week as it shows we dont just take a statement and report and thats it! Also shows, to the shock of one of my readers, that I dont just "swan round in a marked car so lots of people will look at me and be impressed"

Ah well, another happy customer, and this time not sarcasm! I do care about what I do after all :)