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British Police just don't want to know!
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Police tell car theft victim: 'We've found your van... but it's too dangerous to get it back from traveller camp'
When police visited Christopher Sims after his van was stolen, they had good news and bad news.
The good news was that they had a pretty good idea of the vehicle's new location.
But the bad news was that this location, a travellers' caravan site, was considered a 'no-go area' which the police would be ill-advised to visit because of the strong criminal element who lived there.
Mr Sims, 46, was initially pleased by the police response when they visited him the day after his white van was taken from outside his house.
But his view changed somewhat when they told him they had an idea who might have taken it but could not take any action.
He said: 'They said they were sympathetic but said that because of the situation they couldn't risk putting officers' lives at risk.
'They were telling me they knew where the van could be but they weren't prepared to go in and find it.
'How can that happen? What about my van? One of the officers said it was not a "no-go" area, but if they did go they would have to go in mob-handed.'
Mr Sims, who used his van for his job as a market trader, said a female officer told him that his 1995 Transit, which is worth around £1,000, was on a well-known local travellers' site.
The father-of-three continued: 'She told me it is a very dangerous and volatile place for the police to go.
'She said they would have to mount a huge operation with armed officers, dogs and helicopters and it would never be authorised by senior officers for the sake of a van worth £1,000 with another £1,000 worth of contents inside it.
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