The police do not want to know. 20 years ago I had my Field Trial stolen by the Gypsies. We told them where he was even the caravan number BUT oh no the police did not want to know.
In these days of networking through facebook and such I do believe I would have had him back.
Glad that they have been found, hope the puppy is found too.
A few years ago my farrier told me he had his horse trailer stolen, quite by chance he spotted it at a gypsy camp. He went to the local police station and told them, they replied go and pick it up then, he obviously wasnt going to do that and by the time the police got their act together it had gone.