Police at door at 3am

[Policedoorknock]

AIBU to be worrying why the police just knocked on our door?

About 50 mins ago, door bell went. By the time DH had pulled some trousers on and got to the door and worked out it was safe to open the door, the police officer had walked back up the drive and pulled off in their car.

I called 101 and they have no record of a visit being made. No calling card was left.

Ive checked the phone and no messages from friends or family.

All our kids are at home here.

No mention of anything on village FB page and all seems quiet outside.

But now my mind is racing and I’m worried why they rang the door bell. I can’t think it’ll be routine at this time of the morning. Or do they? (I’ve not reported any issues and no calls made from this house - all kids phones are on the landing since last night.)

Those god damn police trying to find a vulnerable child that sort of shit can wait until office hours what are they thinking (!)

I wondered that.

I know they deny playing 'car snooker' but I'm not so sure, not enough to buy white car though.

OP at least they had good reason to knock.

I was responding to other posts that indicated the police do knock people up in the early hours without good reason. That is unacceptable.

A police friend (not UK) who usually works in forensics but was seconded to roadblocks during Covid lockdown for checks as to the necessity of journeys during the 2 km period, admits that they found the days so long and dull they amused themselves by asking the very occasional car’s occupants questions about their favourite horror films.

This has happened to us twice - once at midnight, once at 2am. Both times there’d been a break in on the street and they saw we had cameras, so wanted to know if we had any useful footage.

That’s really weird about the phone numbers and names. I hope they find the child. Do your dc recognise the name or number?

You know everybody can still see your post, right?

What the hell?!!

My thought exactly. Reminds me of the Keystone Cops scenario, just running through someone’s house 😀

I had officials looking for a child in mine after I moved in. None of the names they said matched with previous occupants. I suspect that in some cases the kids, or adults in charge, give different addresses to not be easily found. This was obviously something to do with vulnerable kids, imho sadly in drug "trade" (based on some letter that arrived for again unknown kid).
Never heard of it again after.

I would check your fredit score just in case, but well, numbers can be easily registered to anywhere can't they

I was going to say this happened to us when I was staying at now DH's house when we were dating. The police knocked on the door in the night and it was because one of the neighbours had gone missing after a row and they were classed as vulnerable and were checking if we'd seen or heard anything through the walls (we hadn't).

Hopefully they managed to find the child.

It does! They wouldn’t be getting far out of my back door unless they were vaulting the fence into the neighbours garden!

101 can pass it on to the local officers so you can get a call back

Had this a few times. Once trying to find a rogue teenager, second someone had fled across our garden and we had a ring doorbell they wanted to see footage from, and then the last time they didn't knock, they rang me to ask if I was a missing person with the same first name but different surname.

All at unsociable hours.

Hope the vulnerable child is OK, but there'll probably be nothing else they involve you in with this.

We had a knock at 10pm police had a drop call and possible domestic violence..... we were quite alarmed as me now hubby were getting ready for bed
... they checked for anyone in the house and DH had gone to get my phone so I could verify mobile numbers they checked that I was alright while the man was out of the way....

Turns out the drop call just gave an area and not precise location... they were next door for some time....

@RosesAndHellebores . Let’s just hope that none of your children go missing, writing to the Chief Constable indeed 🤣🤣🤣!

Madness. If god forbid her child is missing, I’m sure she won’t accept the police waiting until and more sociable hour to begin a search.

I read this in Hyacinth Buckets voice

"I will not have uniformed officers hammering on my front door as if this were some sort of common establishment! I shall be lodging a formal complaint with the Chief Constable himself — I insist on maintaining standards, and I simply will not tolerate this sort of uncouth behaviour from His Majesty's Officers"

@RosesAndHellebores a missing, vulnerable child is an urgent matter. At least in my book it is.

Don’t be daft. There are no examples of the police amusing themselves by night time knocking without good reason.

The Police Officers have to do house enquiries no matter what time of the day especially if it's very important to help them with police investigations like searching for a vulnerable person who has gone missing or looking for wanted criminals on the run from the law.

At least the Police are doing their own job properly because they get constant criticism from the public who accuse them of not doing their job properly on a regular basis so really OP shouldn't complain at all that the police came to her house at 03:00AM on a Monday morning.

People need to start supporting our hardworking Police Officers because being a Police officer is such a difficult job especially nowadays particularly with the challenges they face in Modern day policing like being overworked and understaffed on a regular basis, having a massive workload and the constant Violence and abuse from society which is why people need to cut them some slack.

So do nurses- they have all of those same challenges too but if your relative were treated in a poor manner in hospital or a care environment I am sure you would be complaining about it.

Amateur!!!

Should be all the way to the Police and Crime Commissioner, who would probably have a good laugh at you.