A furious Melbourne business owner has filed a complaint against Victoria Police for dropping charges against the man who allegedly robbed him because the case “wasn’t worth the money”.
Andrew Wilson’s small business Technical Training Australia was robbed while he was recovering from eye surgery, and after supplying CCTV footage the alleged offender was charged with burglary, theft and trespass.
But Mr Wilson said the case was repeatedly adjourned by the accused, and police then dropped all charges minutes before a hearing at Melbourne Magistrates Court.
“We spent 15 months assisting the police with all the evidence and we had the guy on video and all the rest of it,” Mr Wilson told the Herald Sun.
“They then dropped all charges because they couldn’t afford the cost of running the case, I was told. I asked the police prosecutor, ‘Is Victoria that broke we cannot afford to run a burglary case?’ And the police prosecutor said, ‘Yes. That’s why I’m leaving Victoria when I retire’.”
When Mr Wilson said he may as well take the law into his own hands if there were no consequences for crime, to which the prosecutor said “If you think I’m going to lose sleep about what you are going to do, I’m not”.
The frustrated business owner has now lodged a complaint with the Professional Standards Command, and written to Chief Commissioner Mike Bush.
“The injustice of the crime and the attitude of Victoria Police is, ‘we just couldn’t be bothered to prosecute a petty crime such as this’,” he wrote.
Victoria Police said the charges were not dropped due to a lack of funding, but because it was decided there was “insufficient evidence to successfully prosecute the person charged”.
Mr Wilson’s complaints come after another Melbourne resident complained about police “doing nothing” after he was attacked by an aggressive African during a night out in the suburb of Fitzroy, and amid record high crime rates.
But despite rising crime and staffing shortages, Victoria Police regularly allocates resources to far-left causes, training “LGBTIQA+ Liaison Officers”, celebrating “Trans Day of Visibility”, taking part in multicultural festivals and homosexual parades, cracking down on peaceful nationalist activists, and giving immigrants free driving lessons.
Header image: An officer hands out “pride” flags at a homosexual festival (Victoria Police).
