Have you ever called the police?

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

ParkheadParadise. I am so sorry for your loss 💐

I had to call them a few months ago as I woke up around 1am and (no idea why) looked out of the bedroom window to see a man sitting in DH's car boot.

I phoned the police who said they'd send a car over, opened the window quietly and yelled "what the fuck do you think you're doing". DH was still asleep in bed at that point and almost died of fright to see me screaming out of the window, the man in the car boot was so shocked he fell out of the boot onto his face and lay there stunned for a few seconds before sprinting off down the road.

The police turned up a few minutes later and berated me for yelling at him, saying they'd have caught him redhanded, but also laughed their heads off at me screeching. DH was still ghostly pale when they turned up, I'm not sure he will ever recover from the horror of realising he's married to Bianca from Eastenders. Weirdest of all, they took fingerprints and caught the man a couple of weeks later, which I'd never imagined they'd have been able to. When he fell out of the car he used his whole hand to pull himself up on the boot so there were really good prints.

Several times for work but outside of work the one I remember the most is I found a young child walking around by herself. Maximum 5years old.
Turns out she had been sent to collect her brother for dinner, from a play area, but she was far to young to be out by herself and scarily she was happy to talk and follow me around.

Nope never

Twice. Once 101 and once 999.

101 was dodgy looking blokes on bikes came out of a bungalow on our road late and night as we were coming home from somewhere. I think the bungalow was empty but rang just in case. Said they would send a psco to patrol and keep an eye out. Nothing happened.

999 was when I was about 21. After a night out we had gone back to my best friends flat. She had had an argument with her boyfriend on the night out and come closing time he was nowhere to be found. He ended up coming back to her house and was refusing to leave. She didn’t want to call the police but wanted him out the house so I called them. 2 of our friends ended up having to sit on her boyfriend to calm him down as he was kicking off (he was drunk and a massive prick!). By the time the police cane he had calmed down and they took him out of the flat and I think just took him home.

Lots of times during the work duties. Par for the course working with the public during Christmas and New Year's Eve. I've been spat at, called names, sworn at, threats against my family...the usual. Also, lots of horrible racism to my colleagues.

Outside work, a few times. Concern for neighbours who were physically punching each other, kids kicking in a fence on my estate, a kid getting run over , and a local drug dealer intimidating and threatening a different neighbour and his young kids after the neighbour accidentally pranged his beemer.

I honestly live in one of the nicer suburbs!!

Yes twice.

Driving up the A1 and there was a guy standing in the central reservation. Rang because it could have easily caused an accident.

Some drunken kids took the corner our house is on badly and smashed into the tree and our neighbours wall then tried to run off. Called the police while then DH and opposite neighbour held onto the driver.

I'd like to add that most of the personal attacks on me and my colleagues usually go nowhere because the police lack the motivation and funds to carry it through. British Transport Police

The ones outside of work were normally sorted by the police talking them down or telling them off (in the case of the asbo kids).

Yes, once for personal and several times for work.

They’ve always come within half hour, they’ve always been absolutely lovely and done as much for me as they could.

I love the police; seeing them makes me feel safe.

I've called them twice I think. First time after I had man handled an intruder out of my house they were here within 5 minuted I'd say and caught the guy within about 45 mins.

Second call was to report an attempted break in, came home from work to a smashed in door. Not much they could do but logged as a crime and called a week or so later for a follow up.

Lovely neighborhood

My parents went on holiday abroad when I was 16 and left me at home (I didn't want to go).
That night I woke up to a banging and looked out the window to check it out. There was a man breaking into the garage.
Hid in the bathroom and called 999. They stayed on the phone with me until the police arrived and arrested the guy.
Later emerged it was the elder brother of my little brother's school friend. He must have mentioned on a play date that our family were going on holiday and assumed the house would be empty

Was told to ring non emergency number to get police to come to remove ex patient. They told me to phone security!

My husband called the police and an ambulance for himself when he was attacked at work (bus driver) by a member of the public who used a knuckle duster.

Police were absolutely brilliant. Visited in hospital, caught the attacker. Found guilty of gbh with intent, sentenced to 4 years in prison.

Hospital were brill, ct scan, face and dental xrays, stitches, antibiotics, blood tests etc

Just remembered that I called 101 when I thought my neighbour was being burgled (alarm going off, torch moving inside). Police came while I was on the phone with the dispatcher and it turned out they had damaged a wire while doing DIY, fused everything and set off the alarm! I was told to call 999 if similar happened again.

Only called 999 once when I woke up at 3am with a stranger trying to kick down the door to our flat and screaming to let him in or he'd kill us. Terrifying.

ExH stalking me, SIL sending threats to my life. Lovely, who would think they are both very well respected professionals/pillars of society?

Police had a chat with exH and after that he left me alone (he may have lost his job if I had agreed to press charges rather than sending the police his way for a chat). The police also put me in contact with an organisation that helps victims of domestic abuse, I was assigned a case worker that visited once a week and keep assessing the situation, at some point she insisted in moving me to a refuge, so she must have known something I didn’t as by then things didn’t look that bad.

With SIL, they gave me a number and code to use if she appeared by my door, they asked me to find a safe place at home to hide and they would send a car straight away to arrest her. Haven’t had to use it yet (thankfully)

Couple of times for issues with customers in work. Another time a kid crashed his car early hours right outside our house, and another time some drunk hammering the door demanding he saw his sister. He had the wrong house but wouldn't tell us the address and wouldn't have it he had the wrong place.

Loads when I was in a violent relationship

• mixed reactions from the police Some Officers were great others were appalling

However we had a robbery at work and called 999 -the police were fantastic

Twice.

Once because our upstairs neighbours were having a very loud fight. I could hear his girlfriend shouting, "If you touch me I will call the police" So I called them for her. As it turned out one of our other neighbours had already called and the officers turned up while I was on the phone explaining the situation.

Another time when a neighbour knocked on my door very late at night and told me that they thought someone was trying to break into my shed. It was my first night totally alone with DS who about 2 months old and DH was away at a conference. I had never met this neighbour before and wasn't sure if he was trying to help or if it was some kind of trick to get me to open the door / go outside. So I called the police. They were there with in minutes, but couldn't find any evidence of the shed being tampered with. I do think the neighbour was genuine though as he ran into my DH a while later and asked what had happened and if we were ok. We had a foot path behind our house so it is possible that someone escaped through over the back fence?

Both times I was impressed with how quickly they responded. I am from a country where the police are unreliable, so it makes a nice change.

I called the police as some man kept ringing me up and wanking. Turned out he did it to loads of women, one under 18, and he got 30 months and was in the daily mail.
Also called when I heard a man racially abuse a woman outside my flat, on some drunk man wondering the street angrily who smacked my car as I drove by. No idea what happened either time.

I phoned 999 at 6am one morning when DH was away and DD was a baby. Was woken up by lads shouting outside and one yelled 'He's stabbed me, he's stabbed me.'

Ended up with the road being cordoned off and a police officer positioned outside my front wall all day. Police Officer told me injuries weren't too serious in the end thank goodness. No idea if they caught anyone.

Only once.
I had a friend staying because her ex was a lunatic and had kicked the shit of her a few days before. Somehow the ex found out she was staying with me, turned up on my street with her whole family early hours of the morning. The ex was on the phone to my friend giving it verbal, while the family (in pjs) were stomping up and down the street trying to figure out which house was mine.
I phoned the non emergency number but the operator could hear them outside so sent someone immediately. I was very grateful tbh, I'm not confident the ex wouldn't have figured out which was mine.

I’ve never called the police. I have called an ambulance, and ended up with two ambulances, the police, and the fire service. We didn’t need the ambulance in the end, but I didn’t know that when I made the 999 call. I thought the ambulance was most necessary, and then the police came because we were on a busy road, followed by the fire service to move things.

Yes...I was walking through a carpark in the daytime and a hysterical man stopped me and told me to call the police because his mate had been stabbed around the corner. Something didn't seem quite right, but I decided to let the police decide so called 999. They called me later to say they hadn't found anyone so I dont know what happened. It was quite scary at the time.

3 times in total: Once to call in an accident I had just been in (car rammed into the back of me), once to call in an accident I had literally watched happen as I drove and the last time to get them to my house after my alcoholic husband threatened to kill me. They were fab, arrived within 4 minutes and took him away.