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Just watched a green sedan, reg I think KD04 YFW, pull up in front of a building site across the road. 2 youths jumped out, dressed in "builder-ish" clothes, baseball caps, and with yellow hi-vis gloves on, and tried the doors on the van parked in front of the site. All locked, they started to look into the front yard before a builder appeared and they jumped back in the car and it sped off. Driver didn't exit the car. Was fast and efficient (although in this case unsuccessful).

I did actually mention the URL of this thread in some online feedback I provided on the Met. website the morning this thread started. I was pointing out the difficulty someone starting at their "something-youve-seen-or-heard" page https://www.met.police.uk/tua/tell-us-about/soh/something-youve-seen-or-heard would have in arriving at what looked like a suitable place. I suspected that most people would count this as a suspicious activity rather than a crime and find themselves without a category in which to enter any information.


I'd personally have deemed it as a crime -- in this case attempted theft - even though it would be arguable that the perp had not passed the preparatory stage (as per https://www.cps.gov.uk/legal-guidance/inchoate-offences ), and in any case with very little chance of a successful prosecution -- just in order to make the report. But as it turned out that the registration number isn't known to DVLA ( https://www.gov.uk/check-vehicle-tax ), so either misremembered or false plates, I didn't think anything more from me there would be appropriate or likely to be useful.


Had I witnessed the event, I think I'd have made it an immediate 999 call, so that possibly a local alert was broadcast, just possibly a vehicle and occupants matching the report was spotted soon thereafter by a free unit, possibly a stop-and-search was thought both justifiable and likely to be profitable, ... .

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