I wonder how it looks in other countries than in my country (Poland)
I once spoke on the forum with one friend on the discussion forum, an officer of our Polish Police.
For trcoh about some funny situations that met him as a policeman.
He said that one day his colleague would accept a report on theft, an Iphone phone or Samsung Galaxy, as he told me, from a 18-year-old girl, a high school student.
It turned out that she played with the phone during the lesson, and the teacher confiscated it. Normally Polish parents would give permission to the students, allowing them to confiscate items that interfere with school activities, normally they are returned immediately after school, after a week or even at the end of the semester, depending on the school's policy.
But this is only in the case of underage students, in the case of these adult students, it gets more complicated:-)
So one of the teacher's teacher was punished by smartphone and suspended for two days.
Then he did not want to give her that smarthon, he would give her back at the end of the school year.
But this girl went to the police and wanted to report the theft of this phone by this teacher, from a legal point of view she could do something like that
My friend said that his colleague, another cop, wanted to talk her out of this, that it would be a bit legal overkill.
Added (1). They told her that she was in graduation class, and there's nothing to antagonize with the teachers a few months before graduation:-)
That reporting a crime against a father especially in such a trivial case can seriously harm them.
This cop, my friend, said that if it was his daughter, even if she was 18 years old, he would treat her with a father's belt, despite being an enemy of corporal punishment towards children, and it is forbidden in our country:-)
Added (2). He said that few times he also participated in so-called forced entries, that woman change the lock in the house and not allow the husband to the house even if he's the legal owner, during a divorce, or opposite that guy throws wife from a house in a similar circumstance.
He said that he's dismayed that adult people can't get along with them in a civilized way:-)
Added (3). My friend policeman told this girl that she would have done better if she swallowed her pride with her parents than doing it's nuclear as we in Poland say and file official theft report:-)