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Gordon R
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Went to my eldest lad's for New Year's Eve. On our way home, about 12.15am, we encountered a car - VEZ 9356 - travelling at 20mph in a 30mph area. It was a little odd, but nothing compared to the weaving from side to side. Another car overtook it, giving it a wide berth. When we hit the 40 zone, it continued to progress at 20mph, but the weaving got worse. My wife was driving - myself, youngest son and daughter-in-law were passengers. At first we laughed, but something was seriously amiss. As it slowed down even more, my wife decided to overtake - I told her to flash her headlights to ensure the driver knew we were there. The driver immediately ran the car off the road and up the pavement. As we passed, he did a u-turn and went in the opposite direction. 

We were concerned about the possibility of a drink driver and when I got home, ten minutes later, I rang 101. I actually spoke to someone and explained our concerns. The advice - ring back in the morning, we are busy. My son messaged me about 5 minutes later - he had received the same advice. I do question what is the point of the 101 service.

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Why wait ? No having a go . If your a passenger I’d ring straight away . 
I had an idiot cutting me up a few years back and we thought he was drunk. We passed a police car and I pulled over , you should of seen the car accelerate 😂😂. The police had him tho. 
 

the issue at the moment is lack of officers and it’s really bad currently. 80,000 people in my town and 4 police at a time 😮

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I pulled into a shell once with my ex to fill up, there was a car at the pump on foreign plates, a bloke got out, took a big swig from a lager bottle, filled up, paid got back in the car and had another big gulp, then drove off.

The ex rang straight away explaining, gave the plate and direction the car was heading in. She got a 'we'll look into it'. 

We was heading the same way, was behind it for 10 mins or so till it pulled on a drive in a local estate and that was that.

You'd think they're have been on something like that...

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I’ve called 101 a couple of times, just to be met with inane, pointless and illogical questions, so I don’t bother anymore. 
One example was of a heifer roaming the A686 in the dark of a summers evening. Loads of speeding bikers on that road in summer, not just cars, so thought I was doing the sensible thing.
One of the questions was ‘whose cow is it?’ to which my response was ‘ I don’t know, which is why I’m calling you.’ 🙂

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Its a bit the same with the NHS 111 service. Several times my elderly mother tried it for different ailments and my stepdaughter used it when one of the grandchildren was ill recently. After asking a load of totally irelevent questions on every occasion the final advice was to go A&E. 

I suppose, realistically, that always has to be their default suggestion to cover their own tails.  

Since I believe the purpose of the service was to prevent time wasters clogging up A&E the whole thing looks like a complete waste of time and money.

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I think the longest we waited for 101 to be answered was 1hr45mins. 
We let it run just to see how long. 
 

Another call by the time it was answered we were 2 counties over (mobile call so it directs to the county you are in) 

The last quarter our 101 had over 16% of calls unanswered 

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Due to my job i can deal with the police on a regular base and now there not called a first response service . Even with calling 999 they can take up to a hour to get there  by which time the incident can be over 

Phoning 101 is just a joke 

One night we where dealing with somebody who had cut themselves I had to leave my partner with them to escort the ambulance in to where this guy was the ambulance  who was called on a 999 call after a hour  i gave up waiting and went back to back up my partner , 4 hours later a police car turned up then another and another  it turned out the ambulance service wouldn't turn out with out the police as  when they where phone we stated the guy had harmed himself with a  knife and as the police where busy the ambulance service wouldnt let them attend till the police where available 

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Never used 101 before and won't bother using it again. Both my son and I spoke to an operative and neither said ring 999. They did not see it as urgent enough. 

I hear what people say about 999, but we had a strong suspicion only - I would have used 999 if we had seen someone being attacked. 

That said - if it happens again - decision to make - 999 or totally ignore.

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I used to phone 101 to log on and off some shooting permissions but due to changes they paid off all the ill old or infirm back room police that used to answer the phone and replace them with civilians  , and there a bunch of know it alls that know **** all asking questions which are certainly not relevant  and probably a few anti's who could care or wont hide there views and show it over the phone 

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I have not used 101 myself, but I am told locally that you mostly get either no answer or a recorded announcement telling you all their operators are busy .............

In contrast, we had a fire locally about 3 months back.  Fire Service from two stations (both retained, not full time) were there very quickly - and no less than 6 police (3 cars) to direct traffic (on an unclassified and VERY quiet road which has a dead easy diversion of only half a mile to bypass).  There seems to be no shortage of officers for the easy jobs ......

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5 minutes ago, JohnfromUK said:

I have not used 101 myself, but I am told locally that you mostly get either no answer or a recorded announcement telling you all their operators are busy .............

In contrast, we had a fire locally about 3 months back.  Fire Service from two stations (both retained, not full time) were there very quickly - and no less than 6 police (3 cars) to direct traffic (on an unclassified and VERY quiet road which has a dead easy diversion of only half a mile to bypass).  There seems to be no shortage of officers for the easy jobs ......

When there is an accident in Peterborough you get loads of Police Officers turn up, almost like they are just waiting at the station and want an excuse to get out!

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5 minutes ago, JohnfromUK said:

I have not used 101 myself, but I am told locally that you mostly get either no answer or a recorded announcement telling you all their operators are busy .............

In contrast, we had a fire locally about 3 months back.  Fire Service from two stations (both retained, not full time) were there very quickly - and no less than 6 police (3 cars) to direct traffic (on an unclassified and VERY quiet road which has a dead easy diversion of only half a mile to bypass).  There seems to be no shortage of officers for the easy jobs ......

Fire would have requested them, highways would have been requested by police for the diversion and they like to take their time. 

Go and ask the local police for a ride along and point out all their faults as you do it. You may be surprised how few of them there actually is. 

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2 minutes ago, GingerCat said:

Go and ask the local police for a ride along and point out all their faults as you do it. You may be surprised how few of them there actually is.

I had a long chat with the two police who were stationed right outside my house, and gave them (and the Fire Brigade) some Quality Streets for their trouble.  Nice people, but they freely admitted that it was a great lazy evening for them (even the weather was nice!).  They were certainly able to produce 6 people at short notice.

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Lucky then. I have 8 for an area of 1700 sq miles. Mostly we have no one to send as they are all committed. Quite often with mental health as the ambulances have no one to send, or people traped in  crashed cars as the fire service have no one either.  A few days ago I  had a number of staples in my head before being sent home. I was the night duty cover for the region. There was no one else to take my place within 30 miles. 

I'd love a lazy evening, seldom see them. 

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4 minutes ago, GingerCat said:

I'd love a lazy evening, seldom see them.

They got lucky then.  I had one fire engine and one police car right outside my house - and near midnight (they were there for about 4 or 5 hours) my tub of chocolates went down very well!

Fortunately, although quite a lot of damage to a neighbours property, no one hurt.

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