During my stint with my local force (I was based around 12 miles from LHR) we had numerous reports from our controller re lasers etc. Caught a few of them sometimes. Problem is its very hard sometimes to find these culprits. By the time the message is sent to ATC which then passes it on to the local force in question and then the operator dispatches us to it, sometimes it may well have been 15 minutes by which time a lot of them are gone as they are usually kids messing around.
However the few times we have caught them they never got a friendly reception from me
