Had a busy night last night, very cold but some proper crime to deal with

I started my shift at 22:00. Did some admin, bollocked some PC's for being lazy not doing their victim updates and eventually went out to see what I can winkle out.

2:30am comes round and we get a call about a lady who is going to her shop that has an activated alarm . A car gets there and they find the place screwed and the shelves cleared of perfume! It was a good professional job and thankfully for us we are pretty good at knowing who is up to this sort of crime. All we need to do now is to catch them!

Anyway the CCTV shows some lads in hoodies with scarves over their faces so we can't identify them. We start searching around for the car involved. A red cavalier or escort, not much difference there then!

04:15 we have another job in the city. A security guard rings and tells us he heard an alarm go off, sees 2 cars, one red and one silver loading fruit machines in the back. We get there and they are gone! But wait, who is that lurking at the back?????

Well you know what, I am no Robert REDFORD but this guy was damn ugly. Dirty tracksuit and baseball cap, really horrible yellow teeth and whispy ginger beard. AND HE STINKS!!!!!

The conversation goes a little like this

"what you doing here mate"

"Walking past"

"Where you going"

"Over there"

"Where"

"Over there, whats your problem why you asking me all these questions"

"Well I know you are probably really fucking stupid but I am a policeman and you are stood right next to a pub that has had the fruit machines stolen, what do you think I am doing asking these questions (TWAT!)"

"Well I aint nicked them"

"You ever been in trouble with the police mate?"

"nope"

I look round and see a big clear plastic bag on the floor with loads of clothes and papers in it. I walk over to it and see that it has "HM PRISON SERVICE" printed in big blue letters!

"This your bag mate"

"Yeah why"

"So you have never been in trouble with the Police?"

"Nope"

"When you get out of prison"

"2 days ago"

I look in the bag and see the evening standard dated 11th Dec 2009

"Been to London lately mate"

"Yep last week"

"Prison outing was it? When did you get out of prison"

"I told you 2 weeks ago!"

I am losing patience now!!!

We check him and the computer melts with his record!

I start to get cold so he is nicked. The car at the other burglary calls me and asks what he is wearing - I describe it and guess what, he fits one of their offenders

So one in the bin. One of the other Sgts finds the red cavalier with a driving licence in so even we can detect that one!

Another night tonight so lets hope we have the same luck. Mind you I am a firm believer that we make our own luck