Police and next door

[MotherOfLittlePeople]

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The police are always at my neighbours. Sometimes early hours of the morning with the blue lights on or just on and off throughout the day. I'm quite concerned as I have Dcs and it's making me anxious wondering why would they be there every single day practically?? I want to know we are all safe and you would think that being there so often takes up a lot of their resources.

Would our housing officer say if they knew?
Would the police?

No, they will not tell you anything you don't need to know.

No they won't
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As PP said, the police and your housing officer won't tell you anything. However, I once had a flatmate who was a police officer, and she and her colleagues often used to turn up at the house random times in the squad car to have a cuppa and a biscuit (including in the early hours) if they were passing and weren't busy. I dread to think what our neighbours thought at the time!

Probably a domestic

No, the housing and the police are not going to tell you why they are there. It’s none of your business.

I would stay out of it. We have this issue down my road. One of the houses always gets the police called out to them. Day and night.

We've decided it just isn't safe to raise our boys around these people as they can be very threatening and hang round outside the house all the time, plus we needed more space so we've decided to move away from the area.

Like you the presence of police nearby all the time unsettles me rather than puts me at ease. Our housing officer wouldn't have a bloody clue what was going on, there too occupied with other issues.

If the police are regularly there but never take anyone away, I highly doubt your children are at any kind of risk.

Have you considered they could have been the victim of something serious or upsetting? Unless you have seen anyone being arrested or heard commotion it is unlikely your family are at risk.

maybe mental health issue

No, they will not tell you anything you don't need to know

Our Housing Officer decided to send a letter discussing the person in a flat near me (where the police do come a lot) and asking people to report any issues they'd had - to add evidence.

No one asked the officer to do that. They just decided to do it. I was going to raise a GDPR concern but I am pissed off with the amount of police going there.

They shouldn't tell you though.

Are they emergency foster carers?

Could be any number of reasons. If the neighbours seem ok and aren't being a nuisance and as PP said if they upto no good then they'd be taken away.

Put your postcode in the search field on the police crime check and it will tell you the crimes in that location.

www.police.uk/metropolitan/00BK09N/crime/

You click on the number.

Example here ...

It could be anything. Friend of mine is always being visited by the police- her dc is in the same class as a child in care who’s always going missing. Someone told them they talked on social media and now friends address is on the system and everytime the child goes missing a squad car turns up to see if the dc knows where she is.

Needn’t be criminal.

I wouldn't worry about it if you haven't had any bother from them. Could be anything. A few doors from me there kept being police cars at all hours. A few weeks after this started happening the man who lived there committed suicide. I later found out his family had phoned the police numerous times due to their worry about his stability. So sad but he wasn't unsafe to anybody but himself.

Defiantly not foster care.
Don't want to say to much because it may be outing.

I have searched on the link and no crime really in our area.

Thank you all for your replies.