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.

  • Dannebot@leddit.danmark.partyOPMBdansk
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    povlhp at 2023-07-26 09:04:27+00:00 ID: jti064w

    Intimidating.

    Verbal assault is not an assault in any legal sense.

    But threats are illegal.

    • Dannebot@leddit.danmark.partyOPMBdansk
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      mundjago at 2023-07-26 09:25:11+00:00 ID: jti1r28

      Threats are only illegal if they are threats about either killing the other person or doing great bodily harm. A threat about “normal” violence like a couple of slaps/hits are not illegal.

    • Dannebot@leddit.danmark.partyOPMBdansk
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      IN-DI-SKU-TA-BELT at 2023-07-26 09:22:59+00:00 ID: jti1kvy

      In the UK it is.

      A person is guilty of an offence if, with intent to cause a person harassment, alarm or distress, he—

      • (a)uses threatening, abusive or insulting words or behaviour, or disorderly behaviour, or
      • (b)displays any writing, sign or other visible representation which is threatening, abusive or insulting,

      thereby causing that or another person harassment, alarm or distress.

      and:

      A person guilty of an offence under this section is liable on summary conviction to imprisonment for a term not exceeding 6 months or a fine not exceeding level 5 on the standard scale or both.]

      https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1986/64/section/4A

    • Dannebot@leddit.danmark.partyOPMBdansk
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      ThereIsAThingForThat at 2023-07-26 09:15:41+00:00 ID: jti112s

      In ANY legal sense?

      Assault is commonly the non-contact part of violence, whereas battery would be the contact.

      https://www.justia.com/criminal/offenses/violent-crimes/assault-battery/

      Assault is typically defined as an intentional act that puts another individual in apprehension of immediate harm. Assault thus criminalizes the threat of harm itself, rather than requiring that actual harm has occurred.

      • Dannebot@leddit.danmark.partyOPMBdansk
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        kaizerSoze999 at 2023-07-26 10:40:49+00:00 ID: jti7tev

        Maybe you can find somthing that is any part of danish legal sense?

        • Dannebot@leddit.danmark.partyOPMBdansk
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          ThereIsAThingForThat at 2023-07-26 11:23:16+00:00 ID: jtibrh8

          Then the original commenter would have to translate “assault” into the Danish word in order to know which definition of assault was being used. In English, threats without physical contact are absolutely covered under “assaults”, so saying that someone assaulted you despite there not being physical contact, in English, would be 100% valid.

          There is a difference between “threats”, as a general concept, and assault which puts the victim in fear of imminent harm. But if you are arguing that Danish criminal law does not use the word “assault” in its definitions then you are correct, but that doesn’t matter because nowhere was it stated that he was assaulted under the definitions set by the Danish criminal code.