Help regarding Collectica bailiffs

[Swiftyboy]

Re: Help regarding Collectica bailiffs

Did the bailiff ring the court before proceeding his wrecking spree? If he did not, Collectica are fully liable for the damage he caused. However, so is the court for issuing a distress warrant they did not have lawful authority to issue.

I would make a start on formulating a claim to submit to HMCTS headquarters in London.

No, they wouldn't listen and just presumed I was trying to lie to them. Another thing I can't believe is how I keep getting fobbed off by the police. They keep saying its a civil matter! Unbelievable

[bluebottle]

Re: Help regarding Collectica bailiffs

No, they wouldn't listen and just presumed I was trying to lie to them. Another thing I can't believe is how I keep getting fobbed off by the police. They keep saying its a civil matter! Unbelievable

Swiftyboy,

I'm sending you a PM.

[CleverClogs]

Re: Help regarding Collectica bailiffs

Another thing I can't believe is how I keep getting fobbed off by the police. They keep saying its a civil matter! Unbelievable

Whilst they probably just mean they're too idle to do anything about it, or that it might be a matter of just your word against the grunts of the Collectica oafs, perhaps you should ask them if they really mean you should sue the Chief Constable?

[bluebottle]

Re: Help regarding Collectica bailiffs

It sounds like the OP's local police force has been on a Common Purpose "How to Behave Like A Moron" course. Joking aside, it sounds more like the OP spoke to civilian call-handlers who are not trained to the same level or standard as police officers, which would explain the response he received. Having said this, though, a lot of police forces have given little, if any, training to their civilian and frontline warranted officers in how to deal with the abuses and excesses of the civil enforcement industry.

[bizzybob]

Re: Help regarding Collectica bailiffs

It sounds like the OP's local police force has been on a Common Purpose "How to Behave Like A Moron" course. Joking aside, it sounds more like the OP spoke to civilian call-handlers who are not trained to the same level or standard as police officers, which would explain the response he received. Having said this, though, a lot of police forces have given little, if any, training to their civilian and frontline warranted officers in how to deal with the abuses and excesses of the civil enforcement industry.

They are under the mistaken belief that the bailiff is like them one of the good guys/gals The officer who has been hoodwinked by a bailiff is a sadder and wiser person no doubt. Perhaps a complaint to the Chief Constable is an option.

[bluebottle]

Re: Help regarding Collectica bailiffs

They are under the mistaken belief that the bailiff is like them one of the good guys/gals The officer who has been hoodwinked by a bailiff is a sadder and wiser person no doubt. Perhaps a complaint to the Chief Constable is an option.

As 11 Northumbria Police uniformed officers found out when they were reprimanded for assisting a certificated bailiff to gain forcible entry to someone's home without lawful authority, you end up a sadder, but wiser person. A reprimand, in police terms, is not something that can be brushed off. It can end up on your record and a verbal reprimand can be along the lines of "If this happens again, you will get the toe of my boot up your arse to the top lacehole. And that's just for starters." You are left in no doubt that you are in the proverbial and you make sure you do not make the same mistake again. It is sad serving police officers have to find out the hard way that certificated bailiffs are not the "good guys/gals" as they think they are. The truth is a number of certificated bailiffs are former police officers who have left the police service for the wrong reasons.