Call 000 My Vehicle is Being Stolen
You have been woken by the sound of your high-performance work vehicle starting up. Police take 2 hours to arrive and two smirking constables inform you who has taken it. It is 2 am and the police response is distressing. You cannot comprehend their reaction to your
report of a stolen vehicle. You find that your other work vehicle has been parked in the exact place you had parked, the evening before. The vehicle is locked. You do not have the key. He does not answer his phone so you leave a message demanding he return with your vehicle. After falling asleep at 4 am you are woken by abusive banging on the window. He has returned and moved the locked vehicle to under the window of the room you are sleeping in, leaving the vehicle unlocked with a key fob inside. Some of your belongings are in the back. Later that Sunday morning, at the police station, after you insisted on reporting the incident, whilst the police are taking your statement, the contractor who was witness to the abuse has also made a statement. You are in shock and have no idea what has happened, you have had very little sleep and are barefoot because your shoes are in your
work vehicle. You have no money, your fuel cards, MacBook, keys to your residential workplace, keys to the RSL Hall (you are secretary), work laptop, working documents have all been taken away with your work vehicle. The constable is barely able to type and after you ramble on attempting to make sense of it all, you dictate how he should write it. It takes hours, and then you drive 600km back home thru Melbourne. You simply have no comprehension of what just happened. A few days later you read through your statement and see Police have advised that there should be an intervention order in place to protect you. You have no idea what the hell that means!
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