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Cross789

Member since
December 2022

13 posts

Posted Thu December 15, 2022 8:22amReport post

Hi , i hope whoever reads this is well and coping as best they can .



My person was arrested this summer over an event on Snapchat in which one conversation took place 3 weeks before the knock.

Im just wondering how long it took the police to knock from when the offence took place in your persons case?

Is 3 weeks a long time for the police to attend an address after a conversation with a decoy takes place ?

Any help would be most appreciated as our persons offence / arrest is taking a significant toll on us as a family :( . We are due to be given a court date in a few months time.

thankyou so much

SAL

Member since
December 2021

895 posts

Posted Thu December 15, 2022 9:31amReport post

There was a few weeks delay in my person's case. If it was a decoy, as it was with my person, my hunch is they hold out in the hope the conversation will progress /restart so they have more evidence and potentially be in a position to charge a more severe charge. It could also be thet have to wait to get hold of the address from the various organisations.

scaredandconfused

Member since
June 2021

437 posts

Posted Thu December 15, 2022 10:21amReport post

Nearly 12 months from my oh being reported to the knock

Scared3546

Member since
November 2022

32 posts

Posted Thu December 15, 2022 10:34amReport post

Ours was from 26th Sept to 10th November. Also one off conversation with a police decoy. I was surprised as would have though they'd act straight away in case there was a risk of something happening to a real person!

Mw

Member since
March 2021

150 posts

Posted Thu December 15, 2022 7:37pmReport post

It's relatively normal. My husbands conversation was mid jan/beginning of Feb and we got the knock on 4th March.

It then took until 29th October for him to be sentenced, but from reading many more posts on here I think his case was fairly quick, some cases can go on for months and months.

Jayjay

Member since
December 2021

695 posts

Posted Thu December 15, 2022 9:49pmReport post

A week x

RIG22

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September 2022

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Posted Sun December 18, 2022 11:19amReport post

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Em_bean

Member since
September 2022

38 posts

Posted Mon December 19, 2022 8:47amReport post

2 years between offence and knock

Cross789

Member since
December 2022

13 posts

Posted Mon December 19, 2022 12:04pmReport post

Hi ,



were the 2 conversations at seperate points over the 5 months?



hi em bean,

was this for a one off conversation with a police decoy?

Cross789

Member since
December 2022

13 posts

Posted Wed December 21, 2022 5:29pmReport post

Hi ,



any help would be appreciated

what would potentially cause a delay in the police making an arrest in your persons case?



many thanks

GZ

Member since
December 2021

164 posts

Posted Thu December 22, 2022 2:41pmReport post

It isn't really a delay, there are multiple factors you have to consider.
-when the police get the intel

-when they are able to apply for a warrant

-when the police have enough evidence to get a warrant

they are arresting over 800/1000 men a month for this, there are so many cases and the workloads so large that the police cannot act in every case straight away. So in some areas arrests happen quickly and in others they don't.
I wouldn't personally read into how long the arrest was from the offence-until it comes to charges.
for example publish an obscene article has a statute of limitations of 2 years.

accessing iioc or talking to a 'child/decoy' does not have a statute of limitations.

Edited Thu December 22, 2022 2:45pm

majestictopaz

Member since
December 2019

499 posts

Posted Thu December 22, 2022 6:24pmReport post

My partner was flagged for his part in a forum, took a year for his arrest. Not sure if it was deemed communication as such. He was catfishing as younger people on this forum and I think wasnt talking to people claiming to be underage. It seems it can take the police a long time to action an arrest, especially if they were not the decoys involved.

Cross789

Member since
December 2022

13 posts

Posted Thu December 22, 2022 10:37pmReport post

Hi ,

Thankyou for your support , do you know whether or not social media accounts etc would be accessed before seizing devices or do they all happen simultaneously?



thankyou alot

Em_bean

Member since
September 2022

38 posts

Posted Sun December 25, 2022 1:44amReport post

Ours was images no contact

Cross789

Member since
December 2022

13 posts

Posted Thu December 29, 2022 3:32pmReport post

Im really struggling to understand in some cases what takes them so long to act especially when theres a potential risk to others ?

HelpMe

Member since
June 2022

140 posts

Posted Thu December 29, 2022 4:06pmReport post

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