So called "petty" crime in "backwater" boroughs is not important to the Met in the slightest. They are totally ineffective to the point of irrelevance.
My experience a few years ago of the Met, as an average Joe in Hillingdon who'd had his car nicked, was completely hopeless to the extent I probably wouldn't bother again. I reported the theft within minutes of the car being stolen (we'd only left it for 5!) and all they were interested in then was trying to sell me a recovery service! I would go so far as to say that all I got out of the entire interaction with them that had any value was the crime reference number for my insurance claim which frankly I could have got from an automated system.
Thankfully, the police aren't the same nationwide.
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