Police came round last night

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Name changed for this thread for obvious reasons. Boring Sunday night sat watching TV. Knock at the door. Husband answered didn't think anything if it until I heard prolonged dialogue. Then heard my daughter say 'omg it's the police they've put dad in handcuffs' so I thought wtf so ran downstairs. They asked me who I was and who else was in the house and asked if they could go upstairs. Husband still cuffed whilst this went on. They came down and said they were happy that nothing untoward had happened. They then said they had a call from someone screaming saying their were being assaulted and were locked in the bathroom. They apparently gave our address. After they were happy the call hadn't come from us they walked around the area (a bloody riot van and three cars blocking the entire road) the one later came back and said so sorry again and explained someone was in custody but didn't explain whether it was due to a prank call or they actually found the right address. Any ideas at all? I'm freaked out someone would do a hoax like that but I'm also feeling sick that someone may have called for help and had to wait due to them getting the wrong address

I had this in lockdown two. I went for a long walk came home and was checking something in the car boot when 3 police officers pull up and walk towards me, saying they need to speak to me could they come in the house. They scared the life out of me I thought something horrible had happened to my family whilst I was out. They asked to speak to my husband who was on a conference call and children who were sleeping even though it was 12pm and had the bed hair to prove it😬. Apparently someone had called to say there was a disturbance, they asked a few questions and looked around. It turned out whilst we had a delivery, the next door neighbour’s daughter was having a fight with her brother and trying to jump out of the window, my husband told her to get back in which she did and someone phoned the police with the wrong door number.

It’s really scary when you’re not used to dealing with the police, I felt quite threatened initially they make you feel guilty even though I wasn’t even at home. My brother had it in another part of the country they had the address.

*wrong address

Hmm... I'm a fan of the police but I do have to wonder if they should be detaining and handcuffing calm and cooperative people just in case they may possibly become violent considering it was only on the word of an anonymous caller's say so.
I think it's getting close to the commonly seen US cops, "Scream, shout, swear, threaten, slam to the ground, shoot first just in case and ask questions later" style of policing.

This post though reminds me of the time a police officer barged into my house and had a right go at me when I told her there was no male in my house. She tried to push past me in my living room to go look for him.
She had the wrong house. Her colleagues had gone next door to speak to the new guy who had moved in. Apparently some other neighbours had him tagged as a pedophile as he had pre-teen girls coming and going out of his house. Ridiculously, those neighbours could have easily asked someone and found out the girls were his daughters and he was a single dad but no, they reported that the poor man as a pedophile.

I don’t particularly like the police (they’ve been pretty useless whenever I have dealt with them) however I don’t blame them for handcuffing first then investigating after.

They must deal with 100s of nasty people that wouldn’t hesitate to run away/drive away/attack them when they have the opportunity. They can’t take every suspect at their word that they’re innocent and nothing untoward is going on, they do need to check first.

A couple of years ago, I had one sergeant and three constables plus meat wagon turn up at my home one morning. They'd had reports of an assault. After it quickly became obvious that no such assault was taking place, it became equally clear that the cops had the right house number and half the right address but the wrong actual road and a completely wrong postcode. They should have been seven miles the other side of town. Wot fun.

A couple of years ago police came to my door looking for my neighbour's son. Since he is male, black and in his 20s, they soon got the message that they had come to the wrong house as I'm female, white in my 70s and disabled. They apologised and left.

A week later at 5.30am there was a ring at the doorbell which was a bit of a shock. Two officers looking for the above. I again explained I'm at no. 5 and bloke is at no. 7. They apologised and left. A week later, lone policeman knocks on my door, looking for same person I explained he has wrong house but he insisted on walking through my house. No I was not hiding the wanted young man. Another couple of weeks go by, I find three policemen have walked down the side of the house and are now pacing up and down in my garden. They end up getting comfortable on my garden chairs and I make them cups of tea.

Young man moved out of his mother's home, met a woman, they had a baby, he then left that woman, lost his job, found another woman and two years later, he and woman have moved back in with mother. Two days ago who came knocking at my door - yep the police.

I have a large, clear number on my door but the concept that 5 is not 7 seems to confuse the police.

I was expecting this to be out of the ordinary but seems not! Oh well no harm done to us I really hope if there was an assault they got there as quick as they could to prevent any harm

If your DH was cooperative*, the use of cuffs does not sound like a reasonable , necessary or proportionate use of force, so that amounts to assault.

His idea of cooperative may not be the same as the officers‘. For instance, if when the officers first got there he obstructed them in someway (maybe indicating he would not let them into the house) before he realised they weren’t just going to walk away, then use of force may have been justified