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I have no experience of the Beijing police force, the nearest I ever got was having to bribe cops in India.
They could link it to your file at the DVLA to see if you were up to date.
I think I might try twitter as it worked very effectively against HSBC when they were messing me about.
I'll also try letters to all the places that have been mentioned.
Local radio might be interested, or even "You & Yours' on Radio 4.
Worth a thought as the media loves unusual stories like this.
Cue a meat wagon screaming to a halt outside our house and a bunch of coppers hurriedly getting the bike out.
We are now being fobbed off through a pointless complaint service and the Police are now denying they ever had the swords. We know this is a lie as
a) we have one of the swords back
b) there were 7 people present at the time swords were recovered (4 Police officers, 2 people who went to meet the offender to get the swords back and the offender himself)
c) the officer who brought the other sword back said he had seen the smaller one.
I mean shouldn't all evidence be photographed and catalogued on arrival. Further to this surely an evidence locker should be locked and only accessible when access is granted. Also there must be CCTV in an evidence locker and you must have to sign anything out before taken.
At this point I am losing the will to live. It is my most important possession and Gloucestershire Police are making no effort to find it or offer us suitable redress or compensation.
In the complaint response they have mentioned contacting us back which they have made absolutely no effort to do.
Has anyone on here ever taken the Police to court for non-returned property?
https://www.policeconduct.gov.uk/
Your facts are not the same as anyone else. You will have to prove your loss.
You can instruct a lawyer to do it for you - but if the value of the sword is under £10,000 you won't get your legal fees back if you win.
Or you can do it yourself.
Here's the link to the Claim Form (NOT the money only one as you want the item back, not money).
https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/form-n1-claim-form-cpr-part-7
Read the notes.
Fill it in - get the name of the defendant right. Be nauseatingly detailed with dates / times / names / reference numbers etc. Look up examples of Particulars of Claim on the web (making sure they are for England / Wales courts. Not Scotland or anywhere else) to help you.
Send it to the court with the court fee.
Be aware that if Plod cannot find it then you need to argue for money as an alternative.
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