Shortly before 1am this morning, I had been in my kitchen making a drink. Through my window, I could see a police car driving down to the end of my cul-de-sac, and I just assumed the police were doing one of their patrols... until the police car pulled up over the road from my house, and I saw a solitary policeman get out. My curiosity was heightened when the policeman crossed the road, and I realised he was heading straight towards my front door.
I felt calm, as I opened the door wondering if he was going to ask me if I was the daughter of Mrs [insert surname], ask if he could come in, tell me to sit down, and then inform me that something had happened to my mother. As I had been in my kitchen all evening, it came as a surprise when the young policeman asked me if I had witnessed an incident outside a few hours previously and if I might have any CCTV footage.
Well, the closest thing I had witnessed to an incident had been someone delivering a takeaway to a neighbour over the road. Whilst I'm aware that there is a big push to get people to eat more healthily, as far as I know, ordering takeaway deliveries isn't a criminal offence... yet! 
The policeman didn't say what the incident was, and I didn't feel it was my place to ask. As I hadn't witnessed anything, and I don't have CCTV, the best I could do was to suggest he ask some neighbours a couple of doors down if they had any footage, as they have one of those video doorbells.
Bit of a tangent, but are the chimes for those video doorbells on the actual doorbell, as opposed to being somewhere inside the property? No matter where I happen to be in my house, whenever anyone visits my neighbours with the video doorbell, I hear the sound of their doorbell chime. Don't get me wrong, I think those video doorbells are a great idea, but surely the purpose of a doorbell chime is to alert the occupants of a property that there is someone at their front door, as opposed to their neighbours.
