Your Constabulary sounds like ours, inefficient, lazy and overpaid (and they get paid peanuts here). If we have a problem, we are left to fend for ourselves, unless of course, it is a traffic violation or something that they can get a huge bribe for.

I have been known to take action before really thinking about the consequences. I probably would have tackled the guy and held him until the police arrived. My hubby used to say I walked where angels feared to tread. It was a part of my job and once you have the training you never forget...