To ask why you've phoned the police?

I was at work one night, 3 robbers came in with guns "where's the fucking money" I said "I don't know, not my department" they picked me up, carried me to another office and threw me across the room, breaking my legs and pelvis , I managed to get to a phone, rang 999, because it wasn't my work place I didn't know the phone number I was ringing from so the operator refused to put me through to the police. I don't remember anything after that.

The second time my ex was battering me, during a lull in the beatings I grabbed a phone rang 999, i managed to say i needed the police before my ex came back got the phone and smashed it up. A short while later I grabbed my mobile, rang 999 the same thing happened again. When my ex was done with me he left. I'm unconscious on the floor, my DS 11 at the time found me, he thought I was dead. He picked up the pieces of a phone put them together and rang 999 they refused to put him through to anyone, despite him saying "i think my mums dead" but they did send the police out to speak to me for wasting their time and making prank calls to 999.

Luckily I haven't had any other occasion but in an emergency now I don't think I would ring 999 I don't want to be arrested :-/

A man with blood on his clothes trying to get into the house at about 7.30am. My DH had already left for work and the man was clearly on something. The police came very quickly.

I've also called a couple of times to report debris in the motorway.

When DS rang me in hysterics because someone pulled a knife on him.
To stop someone in the act of trying to take their own life.
in France, because people were banging on the inside of a refrigerated lorry and shouting for help.
A few assaults

awful domestic in neighbour
they did send a car but didnt get out

I called 999 and asked for police once when I saw a major rta on the motorway. It was in my rear view mirror so it happened behind me.

More times than I remember.
People breaking into shed at night.
Knife fight.
Car theft in progress.
Burglary in progress in flat above me.
Car accident (never got through though... I think this was during the GMP phone blip)

Only called on one occasion, still plays in my mind years later.

Mother was hitting and punching her child in a public carpark as a disciplinary measure. Absolutely horrifying- that poor kid. Police however didn’t do much, only gave her a “warning” which would amount to higher charges if repeated. Still think about this child and really hope they’re okay now. It’s appalling how many incompetent parents there are.

Once when my car was smashed and my ex and I were attacked

Oh remembered another one, think husband made the call though. Fight outside with someone waving a big piece of wood about, which they hit someone else with. The Police arrived after that had calmed down.

Dialled 999 when there was a fight in my road and I saw someone had a machete. Armed police were there in minutes.

When the partner of the ndn daughter was standing outside the property with a knife threatening to kill her.

The police claimed they'd been and all was quiet when I chased it up. They'd only gone to the wrong sodding house.

Once when I was walking past a house where I could hear a man shouting at a woman very aggressively and it sounded like he was pushing her around. He also slammed the window shut despite it being a hot day. I hope she was okay, the Police were on their way when I left (they told me I didn’t need to wait around).

Driving past a transit van on fire on the hard shoulder of the M6 and seeing two guys trying to empty it rather than get to safety.

Seeing a car spin on the M74 in heavy rain. (Guy uninjured, we stopped and DH helped him push the car onto the hard shoulder.)

Called the non-emergency number several times to report teenagers messing about on the roof of the school next door.

A fight on the street outside our house - someone was smashing someone's head on the floor.

At a client's house and abusive ex turned up.

We got back from an evening out. There was a quiet call from another flat. All we got was a quiet cry for help. I stayed by the door OH went and called the police (before mobile phones). The police came and broke in. An elderly neighbour had fallen over and pulled a bookcase over on herself. She was unconscious by then. The ambulance came and took her away.

About a week later her son stopped by and thanked us. She didn't come home but went to monitored housing.

When my stalker broke into my house at 1am.

I called the non emergency line when some teens were doing graffiti on a wall opposite. The call handler said it was a crime in action, so I should have called 999.

Another time called them when we returned home to find our front window smashed by a large rock. They didn't notice we have security cameras!

In London, we used to park on the road and saw the side car window was smashed and a black glove had been left inside. Police weren't interested, didn't want the glove for DNA etc.

Called 999 ambulance when my neighbour had had a stroke

I've only ever called 999 for an ambulance.

I've called the non-emergency police a couple of times for hit and runs.

Teens setting off fireworks into a main road at cars and at me & my 4 month old baby in a pram.

When my ex landlord forgot he'd moved out and rented his house to me and came "home" drunk, I didn't know it was my landlord just knew there was a man in the house and so confused to this day why he had his key to the house I rented off him but not his own house key and had previously made advances towards me that were rejected I already found him creepy.

Driving home from working in a pub about 1am at a junction heard an almighty bang turned my head to the left a front room of a house in flames and masked men running off they had petrol bombed the house.

Once when I found a toddler riding his trike on the road with no adult around. Police came.
Once when men were on our drive trying to steal a car/car parts. Men left during the call so police came to us the next day.

When a man followed me home off the bus, early hours of the morning.

When a car drove in to us at a roundabout, reversed at speed, hit another car and then drove off at ridiculous speed. Figured the chance of it being stolen or causing a major collision was pretty high!

Driving behind a car which was being driven very dangerously, looked like the driver was drunk or having a medical episode.

Terrorist incident in Paris, aggressively dangerous driving on the autoroute de l’est, arson at a ruined building just behind our house, antisocial behaviour outside our gate, someone parked across our gate, blocking us in.

Saw someone in the process of stealing a car.

I've called whenever I've seen a crime in progress (including overhearing domestic violence, concerns over child welfare, breaking and entering, assault, drug misuse is a kids playground) or used online reporting tools for such things as antisocial behaviour or motoring offences.