Hi, I wanted to ask about the police here. I tried to ask for help yesterday, when we wanted to report a thief. I had to call 114 multiple times, because they were busy and asked me to call back… the third time when they asked me to call back again, I told them I’ve been told the same twice before. So they finally talk with me, and tell me they can’t do anything, because we didn’t see the person actually stealing & I have to report it online. We had the thief nearby for the whole time I tried to get a hold of them, but nothing.

I am from Eastern-Europe, where police gets paid less and isn’t as praised as here, but when I want to report something, they immediately do the paperwork and try to help. Why is it so different here? Do I really pay this high amount of tax to be told to report stuff online? Which, by the time I get home and get to sit down in front of my computer to actually report it, is a lost cause.

I am really not sure and been wondering, because this was my first experience here with police, and it was a bit upsetting. Especially the part when they ask me to call back, not even once haha.

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The original was posted on /r/denmark by /u/tinasdf at 2023-07-26 08:20:47+00:00.

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    BroderMibran at 2023-07-26 10:58:57+00:00 ID: jti9fwb

    Well, according to the danish police themselves, they are underfunded and are in great need of more staff, so for this reason they have to prioritize only big cases like gang crime, bank robbery, terrorisme or murder and of course trafic regulation which seems to be a rather large income in tickets and fines for them supposely…

    Of course they might occasionally look at other crimes such as burglary, but it seems they merely just collect evidence and then the case more or less is archived thereafter, at least so it seems.

    But then again you often hear about how bad the police are at their job and all those cases where you either could not be helped or did not receive help, and less frequently hear about those cases where they actually caught the fellow…

    There just isn’t as good a story in such. Danes seems to be glad whenever they have something to complain about, and as a Dane I can say this is often the case actually…