Talk about gross incompetence—and it evidently encompasses the entire police department—from top to bottom!
(I recall Nottingham has a long history regarding robbery. This axe wielding group, however, doesn't seem to be “robbing the rich to give to the poor”!)
Police in this country now are just cowards and only want to deal with the easy crimes like somebody making a racial comment, you'll get a policeman round in two minutes flat to deal with that one.
At one time issues like that were way down the priority list and burglary with an axe right at the top, voting in the conservatives at the next election won't solve the problem they're the same as Labour, sadly only a party like BNP or UKIP will see to our broken society that's how desperate we've become unfortunately.