UK police are utter garbage. Sure the government repeatedly cut funding and the pay is atrocious. But any interaction I have ever had has been worthless.
Give statement, it goes in their little book and off they trot. Likely to the shredder.
I know one policewoman, now detective, who works in an area with a higher level of “illegal immigration” (south coast area). She gleefully explained how she and her colleagues racially profile just in case they are illegal.
“A brown man walking home from tesco in the evening? Better pull over and interrogate him on the side of the road.”