Police enquiry at home

[essayer]

"It's nothing to worry about" is not reassuring!

[Nibbles_bits]

"12 IS too late. As a general population we need 7 to 8 hrs sleep. If you've got to get to work in the morning... Do the maths. And being knocked up at 12 is putting you getting to sleep a couple of hours after that... For something not important."

But the OP wasn't asleep. He was out.
If it was reasonable for him to be up and out at that time, why is it unreasonable for the Police to call at that time??

[M.F.D]

PorkInsider said:

I expect because for many of us the only time we would ever come into contact with the police is going to be related to driving or to having a vehicle stolen.

Well I am fairly sure the OP isn't the subject of a theft or he would have mentioned that. So he means that there is a likelihood he is suspected of some form of driving offence?

[take-good-care-of-the-forest-dewey]

Nibbles_bits said:

"12 IS too late. As a general population we need 7 to 8 hrs sleep. If you've got to get to work in the morning... Do the maths. And being knocked up at 12 is putting you getting to sleep a couple of hours after that... For something not important."

But the OP wasn't asleep. He was out.
If it was reasonable for him to be up and out at that time, why is it unreasonable for the Police to call at that time??

Because MOST people would be in bed... And the officer stated it WASN'T important.

[Fastdruid]

M.F.D said:

Well I am fairly sure the OP isn't the subject of a theft or he would have mentioned that. So he means that there is a likelihood he is suspected of some form of driving offence?

Or just cloned plates.

OP, you don't own an RS3 do you?

I reported the registration of an RS3 the other day involved in a burglary, on googling the reg turned out that it was sold recently from a Edinburgh dealers (which is a *long* way away from here) and a few details don't match the car I reported so while it's not impossible that it was delivered down south almost certainly cloned.

[Bigends]

Nibbles_bits said:

"12 IS too late. As a general population we need 7 to 8 hrs sleep. If you've got to get to work in the morning... Do the maths. And being knocked up at 12 is putting you getting to sleep a couple of hours after that... For something not important."

But the OP wasn't asleep. He was out.
If it was reasonable for him to be up and out at that time, why is it unreasonable for the Police to call at that time??

Of course its unreasonable to knock at a residential address at that hour - how you can consider it reasonable is beyond me.

Some of the guesswork around why they knocked is also interesting - cant wait to find out from the OP what they were actually calling for.
The contents of the note left behind smacks of incompetence as does the whole incident

[MaxFromage]

Nibbles_bits said:

"12 IS too late. As a general population we need 7 to 8 hrs sleep. If you've got to get to work in the morning... Do the maths. And being knocked up at 12 is putting you getting to sleep a couple of hours after that... For something not important."

But the OP wasn't asleep. He was out.
If it was reasonable for him to be up and out at that time, why is it unreasonable for the Police to call at that time??

The only time I can call one of my clients is at 5:30am due to the time difference. It's one of those things some of us have to do, because you know it's our job and sometimes you have to go above and beyond. If I called any others at that time I'd soon have no clients left.

Christ is it that hard to understand

[Short Grain]

Nibbles_bits said:

"12 IS too late. As a general population we need 7 to 8 hrs sleep. If you've got to get to work in the morning... Do the maths. And being knocked up at 12 is putting you getting to sleep a couple of hours after that... For something not important."
But the OP wasn't asleep. He was out
If it was reasonable for him to be up and out at that time, why is it unreasonable for the Police to call at that time??

So the officer knew this did he? Has the OP been under observation by this officer? Why?

Careful OP, they're onto you!! Your Nicked!! (Reagan and Carter will be kicking your (back)doors in next!!


O/T Years ago I had my Ford Escort nicked. 2 weeks later I had a call at midnight from an officer who informed me they'd found it! Great I thought, until he then said I had to come and collect it NOW! I replied that I was at work at 6am and would collect it after my shift. He virtually ordered me to get there now!
When I did get there, by taxi, the 2 officers attending then informed me they'd immobilized anyway it by removing the HT leads, wtf did I need to be there for then?

Turned out the thieves were nicking cars at one side of town, joyriding for a couple of hours, abandoning one car at the other side of town, to nick another car to drive home in! The youngest thief was 14!

Edited by Short Grain on Monday 27th June 11:05

[NGee]

take-good-care-of-the-forest-dewey said:

Lessons won't be learned based on the attitude shown by police here.

12 IS too late. As a general population we need 7 to 8 hrs sleep. If you've got to get to work in the morning... Do the maths. And being knocked up at 12 is putting you getting to sleep a couple of hours after that... For something not important.

Most law abiding citizens will worry if the police want to speak to them... It's human nature. It's not hysterical. Regardless of whether you've done anything wrong... Most will worry, could I have done something wrong and not realised. Ironically, it's driven by the (rapidly disappearing) respect that was drilled into most folks as kids. I'm amazed the police on here can't see that. You must have heard people say they feel guilty just walking past a police officer.

I'd suggest your views are biased by dealing mostly with people who don't give a f*** about the police. This is your normal... But not that of the public.

So It's either important enough to call at midnight or it's not important enough to wait a week. It can't be both.

In the grand scheme of things, it's really not that important, but what I find really disappointing is how strong the defence is of someone who has clearly dropped the ball. It's not the end of the world, but they have.

Such staunch and illogical defence of this, just adds to the erosion of respect that the police complain about.

Exactly this.

I used to have a reasonable amount of respect for the police. But having now seen the absolutely appalling arrogance displayed by (ex)police on this thread I'm afraid I will never look at the police again the same way again.

It is always said you have to earn respect, well the 'we can do what we want, when we want' attitude displayed here certainly does not earn my respect.

[boyse7en]

Could it be they were canvassing witnesses for an incident nearby that had just happened? Getting witness statements as soon after the incident might have been important at the time, but no answer at the door meant no witness present so it is no longer a priority?

[Fermit]

Nibbles_bits said:

"12 IS too late. As a general population we need 7 to 8 hrs sleep. If you've got to get to work in the morning... Do the maths. And being knocked up at 12 is putting you getting to sleep a couple of hours after that... For something not important."

But the OP wasn't asleep. He was out.
If it was reasonable for him to be up and out at that time, why is it unreasonable for the Police to call at that time??

My old man is 78, he's currently recovering from a hip replacement op. Gladly my Mum is still around, but want if things were different, and he'd come to stay with us to recover? Say then friend(s) call to say 'fancy a quick drink/bite to eat?' The old man says 'no, you go, I'm going to bed'. We loose track of time when out, midnight comes and goes. In the meantime Dad gets a door-knock along the lines of the OP, gets up to answer, takes a tumble, and it kills him.

I hate 'what ifs' generally, but it's hardly an implausible scenario.

[Puzzles]

Raise an official complaint and it should get reviewed

[Short Grain]

Fermit said:

My old man is 78, he's currently recovering from a hip replacement op. Gladly my Mum is still around, but want if things were different, and he'd come to stay with us to recover? Say then friend(s) call to say 'fancy a quick drink/bite to eat?' The old man says 'no, you go, I'm going to bed'. We looselose track of time when out, midnight comes and goes. In the meantime Dad gets a door-knock along the lines of the OP, gets up to answer, takes a tumble, and it kills him.

I hate 'what ifs' generally, but it's hardly an implausible scenario.

Lose track, loose women, loose grasp of the English Language


joking Fermit, nothing more

Edited by Short Grain on Monday 27th June 11:19

[Nibbles_bits]

Puzzles said:

Raise an official complaint and it should get reviewed

By that time, the Officer will be back on duty

And we'll finally find out what this was all about.

• Still not sure complaining will achieve anything*

Sgt - Please don't call on OP at midnight in future.
PC - OK. I won't call on OP at midnight in the future.

The things people complain about -
"Never see the Police" complain when they do
A colleague had a complaint about sending their best wishes during a holiday season.

[Antony Moxey]

Funny that it's only the police who seem to think it's reasonable to make a house call at midnight for a non-urgent matter.

[Abdul Abulbul Amir]

...and the police wonder why they have the reputation of being a bit thick.

[Fermit]

Short Grain said:

Fermit said:

My old man is 78, he's currently recovering from a hip replacement op. Gladly my Mum is still around, but want if things were different, and he'd come to stay with us to recover? Say then friend(s) call to say 'fancy a quick drink/bite to eat?' The old man says 'no, you go, I'm going to bed'. We looselose track of time when out, midnight comes and goes. In the meantime Dad gets a door-knock along the lines of the OP, gets up to answer, takes a tumble, and it kills him.

I hate 'what ifs' generally, but it's hardly an implausible scenario.

Lose track, loose women, loose grasp of the English Language


joking Fermit, nothing more

Edited by Short Grain on Monday 27th June 11:19

None taken As an aside, your post has taught me the formatting for 'small', which I hadn't clocked to date!

[Nibbles_bits]

Antony Moxey said:

Funny that it's only the police who seem to think it's reasonable to make a house call at midnight for a non-urgent matter.

Could it be because they actually have an understanding of how Policing in 2022 is

[Pica-Pica]

It’s not acceptable for a police call that late at night. Most people would immediately think the worst, and that it’s a family fatality.

[Abdul Abulbul Amir]

I was going to suggest they may have wanted to demonstrate their new trans rights dance routine to someone, but I guess they would consider this urgent.