Trust me, i have handed ready made cases to police and they didn't wanna know.
Civil matter is their punchline.
In a property i manage, the woman renting it had the flat advertised for rent and collected 7 deposits.
Her husband claimed he was a police officer to the unsuspecting victims.
I found out before she left, called the cops, called the 7 people scammed, police arrived at her door, victims at the door at the same time.
Apparently this is a civil matter and her promise to give the money back was enough to dismiss the fraud.
They didn't take action against the husband impersonating a police officer because they didn't hear him saying it, despite 7 witnesses.
They left.
Next day they were gone, never to be seen again.
At that point the cops registered it as a fraud and found that she had done the same thing several times before.
Now tell me again about being proactive.