Police ringing my doorbell when visiting my neighbour

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gettingready
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A strange one I know but maybe someone can advise?

I live on a ground floor in a house conversion, there are 2 flats above me.

Police has been coming to one of the neighbours every day since Sunday and they keep on ringing my bell and then barging past me saying they have to go upstairs.

Person they want to see is deaf/hard of hearing BUT has own specially adapted doorbell outside communal door so I see no reason at all for the Police to keep on calling mine.

This is nothing criminal so no worry here as such but I am fed up with being disturbed as this is a situation that is likely to go on for ages (complicated, ongoing issue).

Today again my doorbell rang, my dog went psycho (which I hate), I went out into communal hallway to the front door and again the Police and again I am telling them they are ringing wrong doorbell but they just barge past me and go upstairs.

I am on ground floor but can not see from the window who is it ringing the doorbell so can not ignore it really.

How can I make them stop ringing my doorbell when the issue upstairs is nothing to do with me.

Any idea?
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  • Pollycat
    Pollycat Posts: 34,687 Forumite
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    Have you rung the station to complain about being disturbed?
    I would do that & explain there is a way of contacting the person they want to see without the need to ring your doorbell.
  • Manxman_in_exile
    Manxman_in_exile Posts: 8,380 Forumite
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    Pollycat wrote: »
    Have you rung the station to complain about being disturbed?
    I would do that & explain there is a way of contacting the person they want to see without the need to ring your doorbell.


    Sounds like the answer.


    Are the three different doorbells clearly marked, or is it just that the upstairs tenant can't hear their bell or is "ignoring" it?
  • Abbafan1972
    Abbafan1972 Posts: 6,895 Forumite
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    I thought flats usually had intercoms?
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  • Inner_Zone
    Inner_Zone Posts: 2,853 Forumite
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    Abbafan1972 wrote: »
    I thought flats usually had intercoms?

    No............................
  • marliepanda
    marliepanda Posts: 7,186 Forumite
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    Abbafan1972 wrote: »
    I thought flats usually had intercoms?

    Some do. Some don't. Same as pretty much everything.
  • AylesburyDuck
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    If its a door that you can see through to see its the police, dont open the door, ask them to kindly ring the correct bell as you wont be letting them in from now on.
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  • Tigsteroonie
    Tigsteroonie Posts: 24,954 Forumite
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    If they are coming at a regular day/time, could you disable your own doorbell at that time for a couple of hours?
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  • iammumtoone
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    Is it at the same time every day? maybe you could start taking the dog for a walk at that time? a week of you not answering they will soon get the message.

    Do you know if the neighbour upstairs is happy to have them visit. Perhaps they do ring the right bell but never get an answer so try yours so they can get into the building.
  • unforeseen
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    Get an extra key cut for the communal door and give it to them
  • hollydays
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    edited 16 March 2017 at 7:07PM
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    How urgent is it why they need to get in so quickly?
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