Unregistered meter - free electricity

[Man in the middle]

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- Police

  No crime has been committed, nothing to do with us We cannot change the data 

 

 

 

Well they would say that, wouldn't they. But arguably the people using the electricity are guilty under s13 of the Theft Act ("Abstracting Electricity"):

 

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13Abstracting of electricity.

A person who dishonestly uses without due authority, or dishonestly causes to be wasted or diverted, any electricity shall on conviction on indictment be liable to imprisonment for a term not exceeding five years.

 

 

 

Anybody who uses electricity must know it has to be paid for. Anybody doing so and not paying for it are using it dishonestly and without authority. But you wouldn't expect the police to get involved in such a trifling matter.

[Man in the middle]

3 hours ago, free1 said:

I did check this out, but the police stated that they will never instigate proceedings, because they have no evidence that a law has been broken

Of course they haven't got any evidence because they haven't set out to find it. It's their job to gather it. But of course, as I intimated in my earlier post, they're most unlikely to investigate it.