To be shocked at excellent police response?

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Saturday night somesad sheites were outside of our house, looking in ringing the bell, hiding behind bushes. I got spooked nice area it's not normal to have a crowd of neanderthols looking into to your house in the dark. I called the local station, I thought nothing happened.

I got a call last night asking me about what they'd done explained son has been victim of bullying for years and how we were scared so called them, apologised if we shouldn't have. Didn't use 999 of course. Said son as AS and gets scared seriously easily, another chld l might just have told them to F off.

Anyway left to go on an appointment this afternoon and a CPO was standing at the end of my garden explaining there was nothing more important that the safety of my son and I, how he knows other autistic children in his family and how he'd gone past my house to make sure we were ok a couple of times last night.

How brilliant was that, I am sad to feel so reassured, he'll do a few sweeps tonight for us too.

AIBU to be shocked that the police do actually care and are looking out for more vulnerable people. I am so reassured I can't tell you.

I am pleased that you have had such a good response and I suppose YANBU to be shocked, all the news ever reports are bad things done by officers and police 'failures', real or perceived, but most officers and staff do actually want to help people, that's why they do the job, and are always delighted to know they've made a positive difference to someone's life.

That's so lovely to hear. I've had to become involved with our local officers over the last year (unfortunately) but they have been nothing short of fantastic. They put up with me sobbing, never made me feel I was being stupid or over dramatic and were brilliantly professional in their investigations. They also took extra time to make sure DD was alright even driving up and down the road several times while her birthday party was going on last year to make sure that all was well. I did not know what to expect from the police and as a "victim" have been so pleasantly surprised.

That's great. Its a shame they get such poor press a lot of the time. I too had a good experience with the police not long ago when my XH was threatening me, I was scared so called them mainly for safety advice. They were great, i was given advice, reassured and my address was put on 999 alert. My DD thinks they are superheroes without capes!! She's more in awe of them than any childrens character. I want her to respect them and know she can approach them if she needs them.
Hope you stay reassured and have no more troubles.