Have you ever called the police?

[SpringSpringTime]

If so what for, and how did it work out?

Quite a lot of times. Old Next door neighbour was an alcoholic in a DV relationship so would call them at 4am when things were being smashed against our wall and she was screaming (frightening and sad and triggering for me)

Saw a girl in the park with a MUCH older man, didn’t look right. She tried to say she was 15, turns out she was 13 and he was an adult, in a different borough, parents had no idea where she was. He was arrested. Don’t know what happened next.

Adult Son screaming at his mum and trying to get in the house and threatening her, talking about his convictions for violent offences in the street. I know she’s got mental health issues as see her out and about and she always seems very vulnerable so was a bit scared for her.

Non emergency number for Men doing that scam gambling on bridges in London, they really piss me off.

Girl being groomed online which turned into real life stalking in an old job, that one scared me. Called them a lot in my professional capacity with DV and stalking telling them to get their act together.

I was in a DV relationship and most of it happened behind closed doors, but not everything. A lot of people missed a lot of chances to help me as a vulnerable 18/19/20 year old and my parents never involved police when I was abused as a child. I’ve made a vow to myself to never walk past when I see something that isn’t right. Maybe I’ve got it wrong, maybe I’ll be seen as a snitch or a busybody, but I don’t give a fuck. I might save someone’s life, or just let them know that someone noticed and cared enough to do something.

My SIL is condo g back the UK as was stuck overseas in lockdown. I fully expect as white make he will be hounded by the police for quarantine breaches for putting the bins out.

I have called the police for someone threatening a taxi driver outside of my house late at night. Another time was when some youths were throwing stones at cars outside my house. I have also dialled 999 a few times when I have seen lorries break down on the hill going up to Birdlip hill near us (the advice is to call 999 as it's a really high accident area).

Oh, and for myself, for historical child sex abuse. That was an awful experience I have to say.

Yes.

1 - kids throwing lit fireworks around in a playground on bonfire night - they didn't show up at all.

2 - saw dodgy men taking stuff out of the back door of an industrial unit and loading it into a white van one Saturday evening - rang cops and they wanted the postcode, which I didn't know. I told them that you could see the back of the warehouse from the car park of the Morrisons supermarket in my town, and they said they still didn't know where I was talking about. At that point I suggested they consult a map, and gave up.

3 - domestic altercation on driveway up the road, they came and arrested the husband.

4 - loud antisocial and aggressive behaviour from a neighbour - they did a drive-by in a police car to listen out. Other people rang as well, it was a regular occurrence and the neighbour eventually moved away.

Lived in a flat and kept hearing an iPhone ringing at 2am. Looked out the peephole to find a body on the landing. Called the police and it turned out to be a very drunk woman who had pissed on the carpet outside our door and passed out.

Called for a riot outside the local. For kids smashing light bulbs against cars. Quite a few times really.

Oh and called a few times for a welfare check on niece and nephew when SIL was off her face

Yeah on my psycho ex banging on my door in the middle of the night 😩

@Elephantonascooter how did they respond to those incidents?

Yes, when our student house got burgled.
They were lovely, and they stayed round ages and made us a cup of tea (just 2 girls in the house, everyone else had already gone home for summer)

A few months later they called and described some jewellery they'd recovered. Sadly none of mine though.

(Happily, a ring I'd thought I'd lost, given to me by mums best friend who'd died of cancer, I found under the bed when I moved out)

Yes, was on a very busy A14 when I encountered a car coming straight at me in the outside lane (the driver had taken the wrong sliproad and come down the 'off' ramp).

Called them once when a little hooligan threw a rock at our window and broke it (aiming for next door apparently, he'd had a row with their son).

Police were disinterested at best. Told them we saw who threw it and saw him run off. Apparently not enough, we needed hard evidence. Never heard anything more about it 🤷🏻‍♀️

Yes. We me and DH witnessed a woman being mugged of her phone and bag, and thrown to the ground in the street. I went to her aide, put a tissue on her grazed head etc and called 999 while hubby tried to chase the attacker down (but returned quite quickly as he'd vanished). Police turned up within 10 mins, took our statements, called an ambulance as the woman was in shock and having a panic attack. They were amazing. They asked us to go to the police station and give formal statements, describe the man, and quite quickly the guy was apprehended (turned out the police knew of him (distinctive looking chap) and it wasn't his first offence). Later we received a letter and were told we might need to attend court to give evidence. Thankfully they didn't need us as it was all on CCTV. I was impressed with both the professionalism of the two officers we dealt with and the support they showed the victim.

I reported my old neighbour on the none emergency number. He was a bastard... dead now

Dialled 999 from work when we had 4 men come into the the office demanding money and manhandling the boss. One man took the phone off me and put it down. The police phoned back and I answered as yes and no as I could and when he realised I was speaking to the police he pulled the wires from the wall. They legged it when we could all hear the sirens getting closer. They did community service when it all went to court.

I've phoned them several times over the years.
Mostly for my dd's partner. I came home to find him shooting up in my house.
When the police arrived they took him outside. Dd decided to follow them outside and a fight began.
It took 6 officers to try to and calm her down, she was a tiny size 6 and they still couldn't control her.
While all this was going on her partner ran away.
3 police officers arrived at my door to tell me dd had been found dead and they were looking for her now ex partner.
I always have a sickening feeling now anytime I see a police car anywhere near my house.

@SpringSpringTime
With the drunk woman they sent 3 officers straight away, helped her realise where she was, found her friends who lived upstairs etc.

The riot they attended with a lot of officers but it had dispersed by the time they arrived

Kids throwing light bulbs they did sweet fuck all

Well fare check we asked for right away due to SIL actions (she was threatening an overdose of we didn't give her money, clearly looking for her next fix of heroin) but they didn't, they went about 3 hours later when she had got her fix and looked like a normal mum. As a result, the kids are still with her despite this being regular. They missed the chance to see what she's really like. Was extremely disappointed in them for that

Once for a totally out of hand teenage party over the street from me.

Turns out parents had gone away for the weekend, auntie had promised to 'look in' on the teens, teens had posted on facebook about there being a party and then all hell broke loose.

-saw a suspected breaking and entry (someone looking shifty and climbing in a window) from the bus and called the police

-called a couple times for our old neighbours who used to have raging rows with lots of banging and thumping. Was always a bit concerned for the woman. Once she locked him out when he came home drunk and he was outside for an hour absolutely hammering on the door and calling her for everything. She had let him back in by the time the police came but they went up to check on her.

• Called for a welfare check a couple of times for service users at work when they went off the grid.

I was out on the town as a student and I saw a man stabbing a woman on the floor. Called 999 and an ambulance and the Police came. I put pressure on the wound after he was restrained by some passers by and then I was a witness in court. She lived and he got 3.5 years.

Yes, for DV next door. Two officers turned up initially, then a whole van load stormed in. Apparently he'd tried to assault the first lot.

He was briefly sent to prison, then she took him back and they (thank god) moved away.

The police were very prompt and reassuring.

@Iwalkinmyclothing

Loads. Mostly for work, when a s/u has made a disclosure of something that is a crime, or something has happened on site that is a crime. Often to report ds1 missing from home. A few times for neighbour DV (only once did that ever get what I would consider an appropriate response).

Police phoned me on my personal mobile a few months back on a Sunday night to give me an update on a case I had reported to them in my work capacity, which threw me as I never use my personal number for work. I asked the officer calling how he had the number and he just said it was listed as my contact number so I assume somehow the times I've phoned them as a private citizen are recorded with the times I've contacted them as a practitioner. Odd.

They've phoned me on my mobile before, still not figured out how they got it. It was about my car so presume the DVLA has it, though don't ever remember giving it to them either

Yep twice, once when a group of kids (about 30 of them) were hanging around outside the flat, we had had a lot of vandalism and they were quite nasty so I couldn’t leave to get to the car that they were sat on! Police told them who had reported them and were having a laugh with them, then came to my property with the kids following to ask me what my problem was. My car got vandalised that night.
2nd time when my ex assaulted me. Domestic violence officer came out and proceeded to tell me it wouldn’t stand in court as I stood up and didn’t run away. I was trying to protect my children. She asked me if she wanted me to go and “talk” to him. I declined and told her not to bother.
I don’t trust the police round here. I’m sure they are not all bad but I don’t bother ringing them now.

On several occasions I've reported dangerous driving or people using phones while driving and I think more people should do so. e.g. when we noticed that the same car would have the same driver playing on his phone in the same traffic jam as us every morning. If we all reported it, it would be harder to get away with.

@SerendipitySunshine You poor thing, that must have been such a shock.

I have had to call 999 only once when I was about 18, a gang set upon my friends and I walking home and started beating the boys in our group up. Entirely unprovoked and very scary.

Non emergency a couple of times. Once a child scootered into the side of my car as I was turning out Of a junction. They bounced off the side of my car, leapt up and carried on. I got out to see if they were ok, but they'd long gone. Wasn't too sure what to do, so thought I'd better report it.

Also once when a tree fell across a busy road int the middle of the night. No way of contacting the council and cars were coming at it quite quickly so the police were able to put warning triangle type signs out.