Bike thefts at stations 'decriminalised'

The British Transport Police (BTP) says it will not investigate bike thefts outside stations where the bicycle has been left for more than two hours.

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c8jm3wxvlkjo

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Bike thefts at stations 'decriminalised'

The British Transport Police will not investigate many categories of bicycle theft, the BBC learns.

@afewbugs We went through this with the police here. It became clear that the idea of looking (eg) first at the 8-hour mark in 16 hours of CCTV to see if the bike was still there, then at either the 4- or 12-hour mark, and so forth, was some kind of sorcery beyond their comprehension.