Is this job a pile of crap?

Thank goodness for eagle-eyed officers in Cleckheaton. Without their powers of observation, and a strategically-located CCTV camera, they might never have identified that a pile of excrement was being deposited by a human and not by a dog.

How this one ever reached the status of 'investigation' I will never know. So many factors had to fall into place.

1. A member of public actually had to notice the excrement in the same place regularly.
2. The member of public called the Council.
3. The Council answered their phone.
4. Someone at the Council failed to hang up with the words, 'We'll look into it'.
5. The Council had a dog fouling 'squad' ready and waiting to take on the investigation.
6. The Council had a spare CCTV camera and the money to position it correctly.
7. All of the above was done within a short enough timescale to actually catch the offender 'at it'.
8. The police were willing to receive the evidence and take the investigation further.

No doubt the offender will get charged with littering, public order and/or outraging public decency, and will get a small fine from the Magistrates Court, to justify the expense of the investigation that caught him.

If only points 1-8 above would kick in when the residents of Blandmore complain for the millionth time about the severe rising armed robbery rate or the standard of social services in the area. It appears, as always, that the public services in this country can handle the easy stuff with real prowess. Give them an actual problem... well, I'll let you decide.

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