by C. Jackson Fri Jan 14, 2011 4:30 pm
"Will respond with any details that come up from further questions. Over." I put my radio back on my shoulder again, and moved to the group near the Ford Focus. They were visibly distressed, and a woman, dark-skinned, rather tanned, came running over to me and started mumbling lots of random things.
'Ok miss, I understand you're upset. Can you tell me what you've seen?' I asked, trying not to force the issue.
'Yes officer. I was in the bar earlier this evening, and I had to walk home with my boyfriend, because we were forced to leave his car there, as he's over the drink-driving limit. But as we arrived at our house, the man has come running up and started damaging cars along our road. My boyfriend yelled at him to stop, but he just came over and wrecked our car entirely.' She replied, sobbing, it was obviously traumatic.
'Can you tell me what he looked like?' I asked, this time more sympathetically, so she would see I was trying to help, as I wrote down the details.
'Well, he was a big man, fat, quite short, about 5'5", I guess. In that white t-shirt, real dirty, needed a wash.' She told me, same details we'd had before, except we had a rough height now.
'What race was he?' I questioned, this one was often the one that enraged some people, but she just wanted her car to be fixed.
'He was white, he looked very pale.' She replied, still sobbing.
'Any idea about hair colour or length?' I said, flicking the notebook over to the next page to take further notes.
'Dark brown, looked greasy, it was long though.' Was the answer I received, he could be a drunken tramp, but he could be mentally unstable. But now wasn't the time to jump to conclusions.
'Anything else?' I asked, she responding with a shake of her head. 'Thank you for your help miss.' I said, as I walked back to the patrol car.
"PC-2 to search units, we have new details, he is a white male, suspected to be fat and short, approximately 5 foot, 5 inches. Suspect has dark brown hair, probably long hair at that, and that it looked greasy. Over." I placed back my radio on my shoulder, two interviews, and we still probably needed more information. As I finished PC-7 came over the radio and I waited for his message.
"PC-7, I'm by my cruiser, approximately house number 127 Southside Lane. 10-4 Cressler. Over."