Mobs chasing down criminals...eyes shot out... legs broken... kidnappers beaten up by victims... lol
Hello Warriors,
Anyone who lives in a remote rural area will know that you could easily go for weeks, if not months, without seeing a police patrol vehicle. That fact alone makes rural homes and properties an attractive target for criminals.
It's a problem that exists here (in Ireland) in a big way; despite it's relatively small size, most of Ireland is completely empty and, outside of the towns and cities, the population is extremely scattered.
I don't know if anything similar exists elsewhere but here (in Ireland) a system has been in place for many years to help tackle the issue. It's called the Community Alert System; it's a text broadcast system connecting local residents with local police. Mostly, it is used to report things like suspicious vehicles directly to local police officers, who can also broadcast alerts and appeals for information back into the local community.
It has worked extremely well, but a recent pilot scheme in one tiny village to test how the system works if everybody in it can broadcast alerts (not just local officers) to enable the immediate mass mobilisation of the local community in response to crime as it happens has produced some spectacular results.
Early last week, a local man in the area covered by the pilot scheme caught 3 men red handed breaking into an elderly neighbour's house. The local Community Alert System was immediately activated, and was responded to by no less than sixty (60) local people who descended on the area, blocked the would-be raiders vehicles, and then pursued them on foot across fields, before tying them up and handing them over in a nice, neat little package to the police!
In the same area, since the system was put in place, a would-be burglar had his eye shot out by an angry householder who received an alert that his own house was being broken into, another criminal had his legs broken as he exited someone's house carrying his ill-gotten gains, and a would-be tiger kidnapper was beaten up by his intended victim's neighbours
Anyone who lives in a remote rural area will know that you could easily go for weeks, if not months, without seeing a police patrol vehicle. That fact alone makes rural homes and properties an attractive target for criminals.
It's a problem that exists here (in Ireland) in a big way; despite it's relatively small size, most of Ireland is completely empty and, outside of the towns and cities, the population is extremely scattered.
I don't know if anything similar exists elsewhere but here (in Ireland) a system has been in place for many years to help tackle the issue. It's called the Community Alert System; it's a text broadcast system connecting local residents with local police. Mostly, it is used to report things like suspicious vehicles directly to local police officers, who can also broadcast alerts and appeals for information back into the local community.
It has worked extremely well, but a recent pilot scheme in one tiny village to test how the system works if everybody in it can broadcast alerts (not just local officers) to enable the immediate mass mobilisation of the local community in response to crime as it happens has produced some spectacular results.
Early last week, a local man in the area covered by the pilot scheme caught 3 men red handed breaking into an elderly neighbour's house. The local Community Alert System was immediately activated, and was responded to by no less than sixty (60) local people who descended on the area, blocked the would-be raiders vehicles, and then pursued them on foot across fields, before tying them up and handing them over in a nice, neat little package to the police!
In the same area, since the system was put in place, a would-be burglar had his eye shot out by an angry householder who received an alert that his own house was being broken into, another criminal had his legs broken as he exited someone's house carrying his ill-gotten gains, and a would-be tiger kidnapper was beaten up by his intended victim's neighbours
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