Two police officers…

[DisappointedD]

.. walking towards your front door, what is your first thoughts?

DH & I looked this totally differently, interested in others thoughts

I would think someone’s died.
This happened to me a few months ago and unfortunately a death would have been better news than what actually had happened.

I would think they were going to my neighbour and if they knocked on I would think they were there about the neighbours

I would assume there was a crime in the neighbourhood and they want information or that someone reported us for some malicious reason. I'd feel anxious anyway as it's bound to be bad news.

I imagine very dependent on where you live. Where I live I’d expect it’d just be the - fairly common here - “Did you hear anything unusual on the night of X between the hours of Y and Z?” 😬

My most recent experience neighbour had been kidnapped and they wanted to see if we had any cctv footage

In my friends experience it was related to tragic circumstances sadly sudden loss

I live in a densley populated area, if I were the only house around then I might think there's been fatality but in a busy area, it's likely they want to ask about an anti social crime that happened nearby.

When it happened to us they were there to tell us that my teenage brother had been killed.

Mine was that they were doing the rounds of 'beach front holiday home security awareness when it happened to me.

Sadly they were coming to tell me & my Mum that my Dad had died.

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I have no idea now (mum lives overseas) no family i'd be first contact for. So I'd assume 'something & nothing'.

After your update, I'd assume the same as you, but I can see why your DH didn't think tgst. He knew he was ok & when you're asked out of context can understand why he didn't think about DS. That's not to say he wouldn't have had he actually been there.

This happened to my adult dc this week (was woken up as working nights) they were parked across dc driveway, dc was panicked, thoughts went straight to me. They wanted to see if dc ring doorbell picked up a car driving past.

Someone has lost something, and they are returning it. The last three visits we had from the police were them returning missing phones or bank cards.

My landlady/neighbour is a police officer and she sometimes appears in her patrol car (usually to check on her elderly father). I always get that gut-churning 'What have I done' feeling when I see the car pulling up 🫣😅 you can take the girl out of Liverpool

I would think they were making house-to-house inquiries about something.

It’s going to depend on whether they have their hats on or not. Hats on then I’m going to think someone has died yes.

Yeah me too until recently. Hopefully the police now know what a man is and that hurty words on twitter are normally just hysteria.

When this happened to us, our house phone had somehow glitched and dialled 999. They had to come and check. (Was quite a few years ago)
More recently, they asked us if we’d seen our neighbours recently and provided no other information.
So, I would just assume they were making enquiries.

Checking recordings of my Ring camera. Has happened a couple of times in the past few years.

I’d assume they were making door to door enquiries.

Nowadays, my first thought would be that DH had been killed or in a life threatening accident. Everyone in my family has me as their next of kin and on their phones as their emergency contacts, but they wouldn’t have the address, so it would be a phone call, whereas DH’s car and driving licence is registered to our home.

Growing up, it would have been criminal.