Thing with police is they make a choice to do this because it’s more profitable to attack other areas like driving around collecting anpr pings. That’s a crime detected and solved it really helps with their crime stats.
I’m not saying they aren’t starved of resources of course they are always are under the kind of government we’ve got now but they make matters worse by their priorities.
In my experience most rural residents sort stuff themselves. We’ve had no end of neighbour issues as most of the road is ex council except about 5 houses and a certain miserable old lady hates council tenants. For years they had a policy of selling these homes, we did an exchange to get this and she went bonkers as she thought it’d be sold. Had police out so many times on a little old lady with a big potty mouth.
I like the old method of getting police out. Call police report crime get the sorry we’re busy reply. Call back and say don’t worry we’ve shot them, take your time.
When police turn up in huge numbers and are surprised they’re still alive and say “I thought you said you’d shot them?” And you reply saying “I thought you said you were all busy….”
lol