Well, I recently reported a break in into my van. The Garda took a verbal statement, making a minimum of notes. But I did receive a letter giving a pulse number, one to two weeks later, and it was entered onto the Garda system. I expect this to be an 'un-detected' crime in the end.
I'm not sure though, maybe I'm being harse. I did tell the Garda about two overlooking CCTV cameras,.. not sure if they checked them. The Garda dropped a letter into me, three to four weeks later, asking for me to contact them re: a statement. I wanted to make a detailed statement, and the date the Garda recorded for the crime is wrong, as per my Pulse letter. Wrong day of the week. I wanted to tell the Garda the exact position of my van in the carpark,.. they weren't too intertested. I wanted to do this immediately after the crime... I feel giving this information one month after the crime is a bit pointless. The Garda never took model numbers or decriptions of the items stolen... at least not sufficient. I.e Drill, as opposed to a particular make and model.
I'll be dissapointed if the CCTV footage was never examined. I could have sought it myself under the Data Protection laws, but I assumed the Garda would do it.
Perhaps the Garda are under resourced,.. so perhaps some crimes don't get investigated.