Richard Madeley fumed at police live on Good Morning Britain today over his daughter's stolen car.
The TV presenter and his co-star Susanna Reid were speaking to Sir Dave Thompson, Chief Constable for West Midlands Police, about the police's new pledge to have a zero tolerance to racism.
However, Richard soon brought up the wider state of policing in the country, as he revealed his daughter Chloe Madeley had her car stolen off their drive - and claimed the police did not investigate it.
Richard said: "There is widespread dissatisfaction with the way the police respond to complaints of burglaries and car thefts. They're barely investigated, let alone leading to any charges.
"Burglary used to be seen as a very serious crime by the police force and those who suffer it say it's one of the worst things that's ever happened in terms of an encounter with criminality."
He then asked if he'd been burgled himself, as the Chief Constable explained he had been many years ago.
"It's one of the most invasive crimes you can go through, and it is a crime we talk very seriously," he said.
Susanna Reid then went on to explain how only 5 per cent of burglaries in 2021 were solved. She also said that was compared to 9.4 per cent in 2015. Richard quizzed Mr Thompson about this, describing it as "terrible".
Mr Thompson explained the police were going through a phase where it's growing after a "reduction in policing".
He defended the police's work, but Richard wasn't finished there and he fumed at the Chief Constable over his family's own experience after his daughter Chloe had her car stolen.
He fumed: "And car thefts, they're barely investigated at all and I can speak from personal experience.
"My own daughter's car was stolen of the drive of our home a few weeks ago and within an hour, she'd been given a crime number and a statement from the police saying they weren't going to investigate and yet the car was probably within 50 miles. They didn't even take the registration number to try and spot it and that is a typical story! Why isn't car theft investigated more?"
Mr Thompson then appeared to defend the police's response.
He said: "When a crime is reported to the police, we have to make a very early evidential assessment, whether or not actually to launch a specific investigation after that is right to do. Of course, when the registration number is taken, the use on ANPR systems we've got, it's not that we're not looking out for those vehicles."
