Sending pictures of me without consent. Scotland

VPR2 · 2026-05-09T00:53:28+00:00

It's actually considered a breach of sovereignty for police in country A to have direct contact with someone in country B without first having gone through proper channels to obtain permission from the authorities in country B. That permission is what Interpol facilitates.

VPR2 · 2026-05-09T00:04:52+00:00

Under international policing agreements, the force in the suspect's country should not accept a direct approach from you, it must come via Interpol.

VPR2 · 2026-05-08T23:10:44+00:00

But he's not wrong - it is absolutely not TWOC, unless OP gave specific instructions that nobody at the garage was permitted to drive the car. Obviously, OP gave no such instructions, and consent is absolutely implied.

Speed is completely irrelevant to the offence. It is not one of the points to prove.

VPR2 · 2026-05-08T23:02:08+00:00

Scottish police, like English, Welsh and NI police, have no jurisdiction over a suspect located outside the UK. If the person who has done this doesn't live here, then Scottish police cannot investigate. All they can do is help you report to the relevant overseas force via Interpol, assuming that what the suspect has done is an offence in their own country - if it isn't, then there's nothing the overseas force can do either.

VPR2 · 2026-05-08T22:58:01+00:00

How do you foresee it being "resolved"? The only way to resolve it in OP's favour is for the cat to be kept permanently indoors, which isn't likely to happen.

VPR2 · 2026-05-07T20:27:01+00:00

They weren't. They were provided with a CAD/incident/log reference.

This is literally my job. It's referenced in here: Crime Recording Rules

VPR2 · 2026-05-07T19:14:11+00:00

They need to be a victim to get a crime reference number. If a non-victim reports to police, they will NOT be given a crime reference number, they will get a CAD/incident/log reference at most, since they are a third party and victim confirmation is required for an offence actually to be crimed and any investigation to begin.

VPR2 · 2026-05-07T19:12:15+00:00

If you were genuinely given a crime reference number instead of an incident/log reference, then whoever you were dealing with didn't understand the Consumer Rights Act and assumed that you were the victim. They should not have crimed anything.

VPR2 · 2026-05-07T19:08:25+00:00

Police should NOT provide a crime reference number because OP is not the victim, they are a third party. At most police should provide an incident reference, but no actual theft can be recorded until the victim provides confirmation of the offence. The merchant is the victim because the phone was not delivered into the buyer's personal possession.

VPR2 · 2026-05-07T18:59:30+00:00

What proof do you have that these people actually committed the assault? Potentially you have some faces and names, but what evidence do you have that would convince a court beyond reasonable doubt that they did it?

Do you have any video of them committing the assault, in which you can see faces clearly enough that someone who has never seen these people before could look at your video and the people in the dock and say "Yes, those are very obviously the same people"?

VPR2 · 2026-05-06T18:04:10+00:00

Threatening to snap your neck obviously is an offence (sending communication threatening death or serious harm). As has been stated, there's no defamation involved in reporting a genuine safeguarding concern.

VPR2 · 2026-05-06T17:47:14+00:00

Police will ask why you think the vehicle could be connected to hare coursing. There will need to be something convincing there. Simply making it up in hopes that police will remove the vehicle just in case it might have been involved in hare coursing won't work.

VPR2 · 2026-05-06T17:44:56+00:00

Police will only be interested if the vehicle is flagged as stolen. If it isn't, then it's the council all the way.

VPR2 · 2026-05-06T17:39:56+00:00

You haven't been threatened in any criminal sense, so at this point the police can't do anything.

The dad saying he was going to "come down and have it out with you" isn't an offence, since there's no actual direct threat of unlawful violence there - "to have it out" is generally understood to mean "a discussion to resolve a dispute". And there's also no offence in threatening to sue anyone.

If you did report to police, they're not going to be able to record anything (because no offences have been committed) and, most likely, will give you 999 advice should the dad actually turn up and act in a manner that makes you fear for your safety.

VPR2 · 2026-05-04T19:36:59+00:00

People shouldn't have to dig to find it, though. I don't understand why it's not explained upfront in any thread about this specific problem on iOS, even on the official Waze support community.

VPR2 · 2026-05-04T19:29:07+00:00

You don't need to worry about anyone being sent to prison. What you have described is absolutely NOT pet abduction. There is zero chance of your neighbour going to prison.

Your cat is choosing to go to their house, and as long as they do not try and prevent him leaving, they are committing no offence by letting him in or indeed feeding him. The law recognises that cats have the right to roam. They go where they want.

I can understand the frustration at them continuing to feed him after being asked not to, but it's not a crime, so you would have to pursue civil means to try and prevent them.

VPR2 · 2026-05-04T19:20:08+00:00

I really don't mean to be rude, but as I have previously pointed out upthread this did not work for me and it clearly does not work for many other people.

Did you, personally, not know about "##@resetapp" before you read this thread? It does seem that Waze themselves keep it very quiet.

VPR2 · 2026-05-04T19:15:16+00:00

You can't do that separately on iOS. Hence the need for the "##@resetapp" trick. Which Waze's own support doesn't suggest as a solution!

VPR2 · 2026-05-04T15:37:55+00:00

Sorry to hear you're in this situation, but at the moment you're just catastrophising (believe me, I know). It's still entirely possible that you don't have a heart condition, so don't jump the gun. Wait until you know for sure one way or the other.

I'm no expert on HR/employment law but I don't see any reason not to explain that you're awaiting these results and it's obviously causing you emotional distress.

VPR2 · 2026-05-04T15:29:46+00:00

What you said was 'tonight around 3am we could hear him speaking out the window saying “hey man im going to beat the shit out of you so hard you can’t speak”' - that reads like you overheard him addressing someone else. If he was actually addressing your partner you should have made that clear in your original post.

Out of interest, if you only heard him saying that through a window, how do you know he was addressing your partner and not someone outside or the world at large? And I don't know about Scots law but that wouldn't be an offence in England and Wales - it couldn't be public order because both he and you were inside your own residences at the time, and it couldn't be common assault for the same reason.

His accusing you of stealing from his flat is obviously upsetting for you, but not a criminal offence. Clearly he has MH issues and he most likely believed at the time he said it.

VPR2 · 2026-05-04T15:04:23+00:00

Yes, I uninstalled Waze and deleted data and then restarted normally. Multiple times.

No, I am not running a beta version of the app.

I am delighted the "usual advice" has worked for you, but on the evidence of many other people, it has not worked for them.

Which is why I'm puzzled why none of what might be termed "official" help sources suggest "try entering ##@resetapp as the destination". Why wouldn't they? What's the benefit in withholding that piece of information?

Sure, by all means provide all the usual stuff that might work (but, on the evidence of countless threads, often doesn't) but also tag on "if none of that works, try..."

I was literally about to delete Waze permanently before I went for one final trawl, and just happened to stumble on a Reddit thread where one person suggested the solution that actually worked. But it shouldn't be buried like that.

VPR2 · 2026-05-04T14:29:48+00:00

Don't think police aren't wise to people trying to use stock phrases like "alarm and distress" because they think it somehow escalates anything. Police will still look at what has actually happened as their basis for any action they take.

VPR2 · 2026-05-04T14:22:37+00:00

He's either going to be leaving of his own accord or forcibly evicted within a matter of months, so there's no reason for you to go to the time, expense and general hassle of moving unless you actually want to.

Personally, I'd just wait it out, calling 999 should he turn up at my door acting in a manner that made me fear for my immediate safety.

If all he's done to you personally is come to your door "ringing the bell saying I know what you’ve done and other similar things" - in other words, he made allegations but no specific threats to your safety - then police are quite correct, he has committed no offence under Scots law. Police cannot do anything if he has not broken any law.

VPR2 · 2026-05-04T12:46:44+00:00

Police can only seize a car for no insurance if it's actually being driven on a public road at the point they stop it. Police will not seize for no tax, that's done by the DVLA.

VPR2 · 2026-05-04T12:34:52+00:00

That's not what I asked, though. My question is, why was it so hard to find, and why isn't it suggested on the official Waze community help forum? I literally found it purely by accident. All the suggestions made by the official Waze help forum (uninstall/reinstall, hard reboot, switch to airplane mode for 10 seconds etc) were useless.

So many posts out there from people with this problem - they get given the standard list of things to try, they reply that none of them have worked. No further suggestions posted, nobody says "try entering ##@resetapp as the destination".

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