Mobile phone and some precious things were stolen from my friend, but the police refutesrefuses to start a criminal case (proceedings) to investigate the crime. They are saying that the thief can notcannot be detected. There is no lower limit on the amount of thieftheft in our country (Baltic country, European Union), the. The crime obviously had been done, so - obviously the criminal case should be opened and investigation started. But the police refutesrefuse to do this. Is there case law to appeal such decision?
My friend does not know the IMEA code of this phone. But I have hearedheard that police can request (during the investigation in an open criminal case) the call history from the operator and the IMEA code certainly is certainly there. So - the remaining steps for solving the crime are simple - locate the current location, e.g. in pawnshop and then request documentation who has made it a pawn. And the case is solved! So - can police refuse to investigate thea crime that can be solved so simply?
The case happend in a Baltic country but the practice from the any other EU country is welcome, especially from Germany as it belongbelongs to the continental law and the legal systems of the Baltic countries have borrowed a lot from the German law.