Matt, When you call the district office it's like calling the non-emergency line. Of you call after 5pm it gets sent to the down town district desk officer who the has to relay it to the officers in your area but he can not dispatch officers. Also depending on when the officer is given the call he or she is going to circulate the area on the way in starting out moving their way in towards your location or the last known location of the person. If you don't ask for the officer to specifically come to your home or contact you the officer does not know you want them to stop by or call. When 911 dispatches the call it is given a priority code and depending on how you describe it to the call taker, who has no law enforcement and is not a an officer, they will dispatch it to the next available officer who may be 15-20 minutes away or their may not be an officer available due to call volume. If you give me the your address and the time you called 911 I will look up the call history and see what took place. On Apr 12, 2012, at 10:03 PM, "matt ramey" <howshallwedothis@yahoo.com<mailto:howshallwedothis@yahoo.com>> wrote: I called the distric office and asked an officer to come by and they said someone would come....it's been half an hour though. I'll make sure to be more specific next time. Everyone watch out though ________________________________ From: Kryskowiak, James <James.Kryskowiak@raleighnc.gov<mailto:James.Kryskowiak@raleighnc.gov>>; To: longview-park-community-watch@googlegroups.com<mailto:longview-park-community-watch@googlegroups.com> <longview-park-community-watch@googlegroups.com<mailto:longview-park-community-watch@googlegroups.com>>; Cc: longview-park-community-watch@googlegroups.com<mailto:longview-park-community-watch@googlegroups.com> <longview-park-community-watch@googlegroups.com<mailto:longview-park-community-watch@googlegroups.com>>; Subject: Re: [longview-park-community-watch] Suspicious person Sent: Fri, Apr 13, 2012 1:58:34 AM Make sure when you call you specifically ask for the officer to come by the house or call you. Most officers do not go by the house if they are not asked to do so by the caller; thus is because most times when it is not specified if the caller wants the officer to contact them and officers go by the house the caller gets upset. I usually cover this at the CAC when the question comes up. On Apr 12, 2012, at 9:41 PM, "matt ramey" <<javascript:return>howshallwedothis@yahoo.com<mailto:howshallwedothis@yahoo.com><mailto:<javascript:return>howshallwedothis@yahoo.com<mailto:howshallwedothis@yahoo.com>>> wrote: We just had a black male, maybe 16 years old, gray sweatshirt ring our doorbell at 9:20 at night and ask for money. I didn't open the door, told him to leave and called the police. They didn't come by our house, not that I saw....definitely didn't come to talk to us. “E-mail correspondence to and from this address may be subject to the North Carolina Public Records Law and may be disclosed to third parties by an authorized City or Law Enforcement official.” “E-mail correspondence to and from this address may be subject to the North Carolina Public Records Law and may be disclosed to third parties by an authorized City or Law Enforcement official.”