Anyone here work in the Police?

[LittleBlackMule]

Scenario:

In the middle of the night five horses get out because some tit left a gate open. They end up charging several miles down a main road which is still quite busy at that hour due to traffic being diverted off a nearby motorway due to roadworks. The police are called, either by motorists or residents woken by the clattering hooves on the road outside, probably both, and a car attends.

However one car isn't enough and several cars are needed to stop traffic in both directions, while officers herd the horses into a side lane. They then use their cars to corral the horses in the lane while the unfortunate owner of nearby stables is dragged out of bed to come and deal with them.

So in all no minor operation.

And yet...

The next morning, attempting to find out where they have ended up, the horses' owner calls the police to ask if there have been any reports or incidents involving loose horses in the area, and is told there haven't been any!

How does that work then?

 

[Ella19]

Ah this happened when our horses were let out. Turns out one neighbouring police force don't talk to the other. Although ours was in "G" force area it was infact "D" force that found them and so we called "G" with no sightings only thankfully to be told by another livery yard that it was "D" force that were dealing with it and lo and behold they had had a report and put us in touch with the VERY kind man who kept them in his field for the night.

 

[w1bbler]

There would have been hundreds of jobs overnight that the force dealt with. By the time owner rang in would have been a new shift on duty, so finding that particular incident would have been down to the computer searching skills of the call handler they spoke to. In terms of what police deal with on a night shift, this incident would have been a relatively minor one.

 

[flirtygerty]

Our horses escaped overnight, 7 30 am we discovered the breakout, after checking the surrounding fields and finding nothing, I phoned the police, just as reports of 3 loose horses were coming in, our place was on a very busy, fast road, our local EC was contacted in case they had lost any, so ourselves, the EC staff and the police all arrived at much the same time, a kind bus driver had managed to get them off the road into an unfenced field, where a concerned farmer was standing guard. Never again, we moved shortly afterwards to a yard off a main road and I still shudder at what could have happened

 

[Stinkbomb]

You state yourself they travelled several miles. If an incident wasnt called in till they arrived at their destination then when the owners called to see if any had been found in the local area, the horses were probably in another force area or division. As stated above to search All surrounding areas covering several miles is quite difficult due to the number of incidents. Also you can only search on the "title" of the incident. So for instance if officers were responding to another incident and came across the horses, a seperate incident may not be recorded but the information put on the original incident. If this is the case can be virtually impossible to find. Hope this makes sense

 

[emalou2]

I work in the police. It depends if the officers asked the control room to create a "log" to book the officers to. If they were found by police chances are they would of just dealt with it and not created one. They should of really and the individual officers booked to it but as stated sometimes they don't.