I love the mental imagery of this.

Policeman charging wildly through the garden, leaping fences and rolling under trampolines in hot pursuit of an offender. Meanwhile, his dog is galloping around with a football in his mouth wanting to play!

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'That football was an exact replica of a replica of the ball from Englands world cup victory. It has a net worth of £300k officer'

'Gotta catch criminal, gotta catch criminal', jumps hedge, 'gotta catch crimi......Ooooh BALL!'

Not only is the police dog a good boy, so is the officer!

So did Sgt. Angel have to weite one of these to the owner of the fence that Danny crashed through?

To all Americans about to comment about the quaintness of Britain and to draw comparisons to Americas more belligerent police culture; I’d like to point out the note is from the Avon and Somerset Police Constabulary. That’s the West Country in England. I’d wager it’s probably one of the safest and friendliest areas of the country and so this is less surprising. OP most likely lives in a small town or village or possibly in Bath or Bristol.

You would be less likely to see something like this from the Metropolitan Police Service or The City of London Police.

EDIT: just to clear I have nothing against any police especially not The Met - I was just trying to highlight that not all cops would have the time or inclination to leave a note about a 50p football.

EDIT: shout out to u/wilmarooney. He’s showed me up!

https://www.reddit.com/r/CasualUK/comments/f2ryc6/this_note_from_the_police_came_with_a_form_for/fhfoubl/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=ios_app&utm_name=iossmf

50p supermarket ball? No.

The passing of this ball has brought you and your family great distress and emotional heartache, the whole family has taken time off work to mourn the loss, you must be compensated alongside a formal apology from the dog.

Dogs will be dogs, I guess. Fucking love dogs.

This is the wholesome opposite to those moronic parents that had the audacity to try and charge the RNLI for a lost inflatable toy boat that they left when rescuing their child.

Honestly needed cheering up and this did the trick :')

My fave is when the police had to write a witness statement from the perspective of the dog

You mean it was a £25 official premier league ball.

Send the form back with "I demand to discuss compensation with the dog in question, please contact me to arrange a meeting so I can have a petting session with the good boy face the perpetrator of this wanton destruction and I may even bring another ball for him"

Are you sure it wasn't your 'signed by Manchester United' football?

Big Hot Fuzz energy.

What was the compensation?

This note is compensation enough!

There was once an amazing episode of “it’s a fair cop” on radio 4 called The Wrath of Zeus about comedian (previously a police officer) Alfie Moore’s police dog - Its not on the BBC site anymore sadly, but is on audible apparently!

But if anyone ever heard it - in my head this dog is that dog & it is wonderful!! If you’ve not heard it I really recommend it!

We do beg your pardon, but we are in your garden

That dog needs to be brought to justice. Did you inform crime stoppers about it? Absolutely filthy behaviour

unfortunately the Police Dog punctured your football

/r/brandnewsentence

In the US, they go to the wrong house w a no knock warrant, kill your dog, shoot and arrest you, then let u deal with the aftermath. Oops

Presumably the suspect was not playing ball

The greater good.

I had an old German Sheppard as a child that went to join the police. Sort of thing he would have done.

You can still get 50p balls? Everywhere you go now they're like £4.

It’s safe to assume that the police dog is a good boye

I just love this haha

I think you mean that it was the football used in the ‘66 World Cup, and signed by all the players, and was priceless?!

Community policing done right!

Good little land shark

A £50 supermarket football you say?

Here in America they would have shot the football and arrested you for it. It's awesome. You never know what to expect

The funny thing is that, if they caused damage which would cost more to fix, there wouldn't be compensation offered. You'd have to take them to court haha

What's the matter Danny? Never taken a shortcut before?

Love the UK. Just wow.

In America you'd get a bill for the dog's dental checkup for biting a non-suspect item.

Damn that's nice. In America they would have shot the football for good measure and just kept going.

In the US the officer would have shot some poor neighborhood dog barking at all the noise and then taken the toy for his own under civil asset forfeiture.

Refreshing. US cops would have shot your football and dog. and let their dog maul you while chasing a perp through your yard and then send you a bill for the whole thing

Is 50p (pence?) alot? I'm from the States and I'm not sure.

American police would have charged you with assault on a canine officer 😂

Wow, police in America will shoot your dog and you'll owe them.

Here in the states, the police charge through your yard and usually shoot your dog and then sue you for the dog's blood getting on their shoes as they go by.

Meanwhile in the U.S, the police can destroy your house trying to get a suspect and you get no compensation.

PS. He also fouled your trampoline.

OPERATION HEARTS AND MINDS

I just see this as a doggo had fun at work

I hope this come out of the dog's treat allowance

Fuck it mate, say it was a special edition £50 football.

I think it's time to immobilise your football.. nope, wait, they've already done that :)

Buy a ball for the K-9 officer :)

Yet they kicked my front door down by mistake and won't pay for it.

Tell them it was a 1965 signed gold plated £20,000 football

Can I register my Yorkshire Gold at Immobilise.com?

Oh man, please tweet this to Nick Frost/Simon Pegg/Edgar Wright....it screams Hot Fuzz 2 plot diversion.

Damn! Guess I should start keeping a cheapo nerf football on my person at all times in case I'm ever being chased by a police dog I can use it to distract them!

“What’s the matter Danny, never taken a shortcut before?”

If PD Boner is going to bit your ball, this is the one you want him to bite

Good boy

<buys police dog new ball of his own>

Awww that’s actually really cute!

Good boi

Meanwhile my bloody telly’s still missing.

If I was a copper I'd love to fill a form out like this, I'd wish you had CCTV too so I could send it to my mates...

High speed pursuit but echo (that's what I'd call my K-9 ) got momentarily distracted by cheap football, after decimating the threatening ball we apprehended the suspect.

Cue 5 mins of cctv of me and k9 playing headers and volleys.

Once when my bike was stolen the police apprehended the thief (excellent) but crushed my bike in the process (not excellent). I didn’t realise I could’ve asked for compensation.

My mum’s neighbour panicked when she hadn’t seen her for a few days and the car was parked in the drive, so she called the police who broke a window to get in and find that she was not in fact dead on the floor but was visiting us after taking a taxi to the station. She was very annoyed that no compensation was offered either by the police or the neighbour! (And yes, I tried the ‘but it’s great that they care’ line but it didn’t go down well.

There's no way that you could perpetrate that amount of carnage and mayhem and not incur a considerable amount of paperwork.

Never taken a shortcut before?

Squirrel!

Time to claim it was a gift from Ronaldo used to score his 125th goal.

Not quite r/badcopnodoughnut

Time to get yourself that pro Adidas ball.

I’d love it if they did that after they kicked down your front door just cos the previous tenant was some big shot criminal and their “intel” is 2 years out of date. Like thanks man. “We’re sorry for any inconvenience caused.” Bruh you broke the front door then just left.

r/lawfullols

I just think of the garden scene from hot fuzz reading this.

In the US they would have shot your dog and then arrested and beat you for complaining.

Hide cocaine in backyard with blow up balls. Got it.

Those are the weirdest “t’s” I’ve ever seen.

Sod the compensation I'd be happy the work dog had fun. Although I'm assuming he was just wanting to play. Maybe he attacked it menacingly and it wasnt playful but in my head it is

wonderful

Once made a den in the woods in town park - we went all out. Brought old spades and tools to make said den. Got there one day and our tools had gone. Note from police saying something alone the lines of "cool den, but we had to take your tools as they could be weapons"....But cool den right?

I had a football which I loved and I came back to it one night to see it it ruins. Bite marks were all over it, I was actually really sad.

Good boys always leave a note

And yet they take my shirt to test for DNA from a criminal who'd touched it, tell me I'll get it back, and after being exceedingly unhelpful in my quest to get it back, eventually just tell me it was destroyed during the test and that was it...

rinse them for every penny they’ve got

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Is 50p a lot? Context makes it sound like it’s not.

Meanwhile here in America police can pretty much blow up your house if they suspect a criminal is hiding in it and then proceed to refuse to compensate for damages. Even when the suspect was found to have never entered the house.

Our police are godawful.

This is BS. My friends stolen car was rammed off the road by the police to catch the perps and the damage was his problem not northamptonshire police

Whoa your police actually pay for that stuff? In my state in America the cops just blew the wrong guys house up and when he asked for reparations the judge told him to go fuck himself. I wish I was exaggerating that. They blew his entire house up, realized it was the wrong place, and just left.

No officer number? Sounds fake

I love that the police don’t have time to tackle the swathes of crime and grooming gangs etc but they do have time to deliver compensation forms and hand-written notes for burst 50p footballs.