http://comment.zdnet.co.uk/other/0,39020682,39272584,00.htm
"Britain's new approach to serious crime means you'll get little help from the police if your PC is hijacked. Are you the kind of person who's financially motivated, a self-starter, happy to work alone or as part of a team? Who accepts arrest as an occupational hazard, and presumably accepts imprisonment in the same casual manner? Well, have we got news for you. Good news, too. If you hijack a computer in the UK and demand payment to release it, the police won't so much as open their notebooks. "