The British Transport Police will not investigate many categories of bicycle theft, the BBC learns.

My lad’s bike was stolen from a train station a few months back. He’d left it there while he was at work. He works for longer than an hour a day, like many others.

This was the BTP’s response, so it’s kind of mad to see that it’s actual policy now.

Really makes you glad to pay the old national insurance and council tax, y’know?

  • HaraldvonBlauzahn@feddit.org
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    1 month ago

    "The more time our officers spend reviewing CCTV footage for these offences, the less time they have available for patrolling railway stations and trains, investigating crimes which cause the most harm and providing a visible presence across the network.

    That argument is so dumb. Say the bike owner was away for ten hours, from 6:00 to 16:00 o’clock.

    What you need to do is called ‘bisection’. At 6:00, the bike is there. At 16:00, it isn’t. You take half if that interval, which is 11:00. You look at 11:00, whether its there. If yes, you look at the mid between 11:00 and 16:00. If no, between 6:00 and 11:00.

    Then hours are 600 Minutes, which means that after ten halvings you are down to the exact minute where the theft happened, and can watch the thief.

    It’s the same method as finding a page number in a large book.