To ask why you've phoned the police?

The house next to me was being broken into., in the middle of the day! The lines were so busy I couldn't get through. It was horrendous. Luckily a few of the neighbours were around, one being a retired police man and they sorted it until the police finally arrived.

because I thought someone was trying to break in to the house.
but it was just a milkman training a new milkman which is why there were two of them and they had a torch.

Escaped huskies ate my friends chickens and where being quite aggressive so we shut them in the large chicken coop. Owner wouldn't come. Dog warden wouldn't come and said call the police. They turned up 3 days later after the owner retrieved them a few hours later and I updated the police. They still turned up 3 days later though...

Knife threat at work. Called the police. They turned up 5 hours later after my DH scared them off. They then went and hit someone round the head with a steel pole. The poor guy was in hospital for 6 months.

Not sure it's worth calling the police for even urgent things any more unless you live in a city with a large police force!

Once, when someone was trying to kick the door in of the pub my ex was living upstairs from at the time. They came fairly quickly but apparently didn't see anyone in the vicinity and said it was probably kids being stupid.

My across the hall neighbour called once when my ex was off his tits on coke and headbutted me. The police never came.

Phoned an ambulance twice. Once when I found a teenage girl unconscious in the street. Put her in the recovery position and she eventually came to, sat with her for almost 40 mins trying to keep her on her side and hold her hair back as she vomited profusely. The ambulance never came. A passing police car noticed us and stopped to help.
Another time when there was an incident at work and a colleague was injured. Called for the fire brigade in the same incident.

Twice. Once when a neighbour was having a party and one of his guests dogs got in a fight with own dog and it spilled out into the street. The neighbour was bleeding trying to pull them apart and then his daughter (about 10 years old) went running out and was trying to get the dogs apart. She ended up really badly injured.

Then once because a house in my mum cul de sac used to have loads of cars parked all over. I pulled in one night to someone setting fire to them all.

A riot outside my house. 30 men were trying to kick my neighbours front door in. I ran out and pulled his wife and kids out and into my house. He fucked off over the back wall and left them.

My ex had been seeing another woman. He stopped seeing her. She killed herself. Her mum barged into our house on the day of the post mortem. She was hysterical, demanding to see my ex. He hid in the living room and refused to talk to her. I rang 999. She was, understandably, mad with grief. The police officer who attended tried to get my ex to speak to her. He still refused. Police officer got her to leave. She spat at me.

Man with hatchet entering neighbouring property at 2am and doing something that made the male inhabitant scream. From what I hear, the guy deserved it, but still...

Not surprising as neither the call handling centre nor those attending are likely to be "local" to the incident. The days are long gone when 999 calls were automatically routed to a local police station. Now they go to a central handling centre covering the entire county, or even in a different county. Same with those attending, they may be based locally to you (i.e. local station) but probably live miles away, again possibly in a different county. It's a few decades since "local knowledge" was part of basic training. They work by SatNav now.

Once year ago when some neighbours were fighting in their garden- I could see from the bedroom window that there was a male pushing/ dragging a woman while two small children watched and screamed.

When my son rode his bike in to a metal fence and came home with a huge lump on his head, vomiting, talking nonsense and falling asleep. In the end it was quicker to drive him to the hospital than wait for an ambulance.

I also had to call an ambulance for a baby at work (a nursery) but the story would be outing so I won't go in to it. The baby is now about 6 years old and fine!

About 20 members of the same family having some internal dispute that could only be solved with baseball bats. Rang 999 and the operator was very concerned that they'd broken into our house because it was so loud. Explained that we were quite safe and the noise was 5 doors down. Police turned up about 20 minutes later when things had calmed down 🙄

Distant neighbour always let her husband back when he came out of prison even though he was very violent to her. Had already reported it to social services because of the children and I passed a message to her 15 year old son via one of his friends to let him know he could always knock in an emergency. A few weeks later her 11 year old daughter came banging on the door screaming that he was killing her mum. Police came straight away and arrested him. They moved but a couple of years ago I bumped into the son who'd have been about 19 and he thanked us for keeping an eye on them.

I called once when someone was actively trying to break into my home

The second time it was for a large dog locked inside a vehicle ( windows down just an inch) on a 32 degree day

After my manipulative ex convinced me to meet for a coffee 'as friends' to talk things through. He turned on the waterworks and by the time I was getting the bus away from the cafe he was walking out in front of traffic on the phone to me telling me if I cared about him I'd get off the bus.

I stayed on the bus and rang the police, surprise surprise 20 minutes later they had knocked on his door (I gave the address) and he was at home. So clearly as soon as the bus was out of sight he'd gone home.

Wanker.

Yes. 20 years ago when DH was assaulted outside our house by a group of young men. The ringleader punched him to the face and another one threw a bottle at him. DH lost 3 teeth and suffered a blackened eye and fractured cheekbone. The police found the ringleader on the street, we ID’d him, there was a trial and he was convicted and sentenced to 18 months in a YOI (he was only 19). Within months of being released he killed someone (manslaughter). He is free again now and has returned to the city where we live. We often still think about it.

Sadly, when I found my brother dead 😞

I never have but dh has twice. Once when I was miscarrying, he called the gynae ward as we had been told to do it anything happened and they said to call an ambulance. Then 3 years later someone crashed their car outside our house so he called the ambulance and the police.

Also years ago called because my neighbours were having a huge fight throwing furniture down the close stairs.

I have several times.

• Someone collapsed in the town centre.

• Witnessed a car accident x2

• For someone injured at a sports class.

• Bicyclist hit by car (thankfully ok)

• Drove past a car that had gone off the side of the A9.

You called the police for those?

the first needed a fire engine and the others needed ambulances………

Phoned for a garage across the road from my house being on fire, friend having Anaphylactic shock and work colleague having a heart attack.

Also after a burglary in my home.

ExH hit me.
Witnessed car accident.

@CustardySergeant scruffers is a term used in our area for not very nice people.

Once because i heard screaming coming from a house and once because i saw a child walking alone in the pouring rain on a school day on a very long ‘country road’

ive been with people when they have rung the police over a fire on the recreation ground (with kids) and what looked like a fight in the village centre

people on the estate rang the police numerous times because there were teenagers in the play area late at night, they weren’t doing anything but they were there 😒 think very big houses facing the play area

I assume if you've been mugged to get something back on insurance you need to call the police to get a crime reference number?