Have you ever witnessed a police raid?

[wolterswo]

describe it and give context

I didn’t mention dodgy area 🙁

I always thought I would be a brilliant witness if I saw anything like that (hence my username). Think again 🙄!

I was walking home from work - teatime - nice quiet leafy area when a van sped past me. It screeched to a halt & several big blokes charged out & in seconds pulled the occupants of a parked car onto the ground. I was probably 3metres away. Much shouting. They loaded them into the van & drove off. I stood there open mouthed just looking like an idiot.

Another bloke pulled up in a car & showed me his ID - said they were police & I should just go home & have a gin & tonic. I had actually been planning that so I didn’t need a second telling.

The only thing I can remember about the whole incident was that somebody was wearing a red jumper.

No, it was the 1970s and they were the real Sweeney.

We tried, long story, we were leant on to drop it, scary times...1975.

Yes..a few times.
I lived above a drug dealer. And it was (each time) an interesting curtain twitching experience!

Weirdly, yes, today. Got home and could hear shouting when I got out of the car. The roofers were like meer cats peering over the fence to the flats behind. Apparently the police were putting the door in and were armed. Not sure what happened. Will check FB later 😂

Did they not board the door up before they left?

Yes in a bar in New York

Yes.
Alleged paedophile on a road across the way from my previous home.
They lifted his car too.

He never went back to the house and his wife divorced him.

Oh god. Did it make the news?

Not me but ds

He would have been about 12 at the time and had nipped to the corner shop for me (he's 26 now)

He came back full of tales that the police had broken down a door to the flat next to the shop and stormed the place-apparently he'd stood gawping on the corner

I bollocking him for telling tall tales (he was going through a phase of lying over nothing)

About an hour later,it came up on fb that they'd been growing drugs and a fight broke out,someone had been stabbed and sadly died (they'd locked the door to stop this bloke from ringing for help but a lady walking past had seen what happened and rang the police-by the time they'd arrived,the man had died and they had to break the door down to get in)

I did say sorry to ds for not believing him

I only sent him for milk!

I swear drama follows that lad around

🤨 It was a car not a house.

😂😂😂

Do you count them breaking into a neighbours with the big red key.... for the neighbour to come strolling in after them looking totally baffled.

(Seen from our Ring doorbell, we weren't going out to look!)

@wolterswo

Yes, following a week long seige.
It caused huge disruption, closure of a school, evacuation of neighbouring houses and a police corden taking in 6 streets and resulting road closures and diversions.
It really wasn't the least bit exciting but very worrying for people living closest to it and the individuals directly involved.
Not something you really want to witness

I was living in Totteridge and Whetstone with a friend and her boyfriend
The house was his mothers
He was a heroine addict

He had threatened to attack me the night before after I freaked out over a huge spider ( madness, he was drugged up )
I phoned my brother the next day to get him to pick me up as an emergency

Just as I’d left all my stuff on the drive and was leaving a note on the front door for my friend
3 black police vans screeched to a halt blocking the drive and they all ran towards me shouting where’s
xxxx
I told them he was inside
and opened the door for them
Guns up they all ran in shouting

My brother screeched to a stop in the middle of the street thinking I’d been killed
They took out xxxx handcuffed and put him in a van
They found large amounts of drugs including hidden in the room I’d been sleeping in. Had I not moved all my stuff out they would have arrested me too

He was the son of one of the Queens physicians !!

I’ve nc for this

My son and his partner had police rush into their home a few years back - door was unlocked and police entered shouting (and according to DS pointing tasers at them). It’s possible they may have knocked first and DS didn’t hear as they were watching TV. Police had received a call saying crime in progress and had wrong address. Think they got an apology .

Absolutely obsessed with the breaking down of doors.

Too outing for me to explain but yes and in my friends rented flat in england due to a misunderstanding. But freaked everyone out since we were all 18/19.

@wolterswo why?

I've seen it on the telly,

PC Dixon was very polite and other than a missed punch (by the scoundrel) everyone was quite calm and contrite.

At the end of the episode PC Dixon had liver and bacon cooked by Connie (his 'housekeeper') and the scoundrel saw the error of his ways under the crushing question of Detective Andy Crawford.

"Goodnight, all"

I was in love with Andy Crawford when a pre-teen 😄

I'm surprised OP has had so many responses

But maybe people just love to talk about the time they've seen raids!

Yep on my neighbours house at our old house.
woke up at 2am to noises near my window, looked outside my window to see officers with guns crouching beneath my window, one did the ssshh motion and then about 10 of them raided next door. It was only a lil old Greek woman who lived there so not sure what was going on, word on the street was her son was a big time drug lord who stashed drugs at her house. Have no idea how true this was, she didn’t speak much English. This was london so I wasn’t at all surprised 😳

I was waiting at a bus stop and became vaguely aware that a couple of people had approached the man next to me and seemed to be talking slightly aggressively to him. Then they told him he was under arrest (for rape) and suddenly about 4-5 other plain clothes police appeared out of the surrounding area to help bundle him into an unmarked police car and drove him off. The plain clothes officers then just melted back into the street and it was like nothing had happened. It was really bizarre, when I think about it now I wonder if it actually happened but it definitely did.