Punishment passed, harassed, liquid sprayed. Police? Not interested.

Fear not, for this is the Met Police's vision:

"The world's best organisations succeed because they are inspired by a strong vision. To make the scale of our ambition clear, the Met's vision is to:

Make London the safest global city
Be the best crimefighters, by any measure
Earn the trust and confidence of every community
Take pride in the quality of our service
So that people love, respect and are proud of London's Met"

I'm not quite sure what a global city is.  I thought London (and the Met) had some rather more local geographic boundaries.  Some Russians came all the way to Salisbury just to look at its cathedral.  Does that make Salisbury a global city?

Any measure?  Really?

Earn the trust and confidence of every community?  Not sure about that one either.

Pride in the quality?  I think my dog is very proud of a minging old cuddly toy.  He goes and gets it and shows it to me when I come home.

I was recently assaulted (ABH) on a shared use path by some nutter who has it in for cyclists. There was a clear video of the suspect, and the suspect is always seen at the same time and the same place. Whilst this information was reported to the police, they haven't bothered to actually send someone out to look for this suspect

Very bad move to call the Police and leave your details. I mean, should matey boy's car be consumed in flames under suspicious circumstances, then you'll be first in line to be hauled in for questioning.

Unfortunately it is almost certain that there were no units to deal. The box is empty, especially with the new BCU mergers the met has implemented.

Because you were no longer at immediate risk the call would have been downgraded instantly. Had you stopped and immediately rang 999 saying "I've just been sprayed with something, the driver shouted 'Acid'" then you'd have got  an 'i' graded response. As you've rung up to report what is, in essence, a common assault  where the suspect is no longer on scene then diverting  a unit away from whatever weary old shit has more risk attached to it is impossible to justify.

It's shit, but it's got nothing  to do with your mode of transport and everything  to do with the fact that the met is what's known in the trade as 'fucked'.

That doesn't  mean the job is written off (although it may as well be, to be fair). TDIU will have recorded it and it'll go into the big pile that  response officers now have to manage along with dealing with an increased call volume over a greater geographical area with less officers. If you're lucky it'll go to an officer who's got  time to deal. If you're unlucky, it'll go to one who hasn't.

When it inevitably gets screened out, make a complaint. The only way that the SLT will understand that the system isn't working is when complaints start going through the roof.

That really is a pathetic police response.

I hope you're going to make a formal complaint to the police about it. It probably won't change the outcome, but it'll show up in their KPIs.

Alternatively, have you tried being rich? That tends to get the police to respond quickly.

This is part and parcel of the cultural war on cycling which is being perpetrated in this country.  I know that it's an unpopular tactic on road.cc to link this to politics, but Brexit is not the only symptom of a massive swing to the right of almost an entire country, which has happened since the mid-seventies.     

Compare Britain to Umberto Eco's 'Fourteen Points' and it is clear that the UK is a fascist country. 

From your point of view, you're fucked because if anything now happens to that vehicle, they'll have its VRM and will be round your door like a shot.  

Ah, well.  This afternoon, I shall be on a plane to Copenhagen and my first interview is tomorrow at 9 AM their time.  I hope that the fascist, militaristic shithole that is Britain will soon have two fewer people it can shag.  

I think we all know that our police now spend more time justifying their inaction.

But speak out against it and you'll get a torrent of they're doing their best with the cuts they've had.

But I don't buy it, Thames Valley Police raised their council tax precept by 13.2% this year but I doubt I'll see more coppers on the street, unless of course I go to a big sporting event or a royal wedding. There's always plenty there.

Lets face it sitting on Facebook/Twitter looking for hate crime is easier/safer than getting out on the street and actually tackling the skallys.