Originally Posted by
bogue
Hi,
Just seen your postings about your theft and a couple of questions and suggestions, that may help you.
1. Was the guy running the club able to give you a list of members that were at the club at the time. He would need to know for fire safety reasons, as if there had been a fire he would have to produce a list of people who were in the building to any fire unit that attended plus he would have to do a roll call at the fire assembly point to ensure that all people had vacated the premises.
2. Are your planes uniquely identifiable?
3. If he has the list of people pass that onto the police, as they should, in theory, if they are doing their duty, speak to each person that was at the scene at the time of the incident.
4. Did you notice, at all during your time there anybody showing a particular interest in your stuff? Or was hanging around near your stuff as you packed up? If so did you mention this to the police, even a basic description of anybody doing that would help them.
5. What in total was the monetary value of your loss as if it is a significant loss, then the theft is not some pokemon card issue and the police should treat that more seriously.
6. However, without any names to follow up on and the items stolen not uniquely identifiable in comparison to other similar items the police are a bit stonewalled. Plus, it does rather sound like an opportunist theft which is very much harder to detect.
7. Have you considered claiming off your home insurance? I would as you might be able get something back from them.
8. If you are going to claim off the insurance did you get a crime reference number from the police, as the insurance company requires that to process any claim.
A friend of mine at Reveille had a quantity of stuff stolen, which was valued at £150 the club secretary accepted that they were partially responsible and paid him £100. Can you try pressurising the club secretary for some compensation?
Hope that this may in some small way help you.
Nigel
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