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The bailiff says he has called the police to your address.
If a bailiff says anything like the police are on their way then you must contact the local police on the non-emergency number and ask for the CAD messages containing a transcript of the bailiff's call to police. If police attend then you can ask for the officers notebook comments taken down at the scene. A CAD report is a method of dispatching police officers to the scene of an incident and is assigned a CAD number. All CAD messages remain on the system for nearly 12 months until they are archived, and thereafter they are stored for a further seven years. You can request information over the telephone about an incident provided it is not against the public interest. You can make a written request for a printout of CAD messages but these may be redacted to conceal individual police officers' identities. When a bailiff says he has called the police, you can make a request for the CAD messages to confirm the police have been called to your address at the time the bailiff says. Some police forces will dictate messages over the telephone, but if you intend to use them in legal proceedings then you either need to make a sworn statement, or ask the police for authentic evidence whether or not the bailiff actually called the police. If you discover the bailiff lied about calling the police, then you can use this to discredit him in future legal proceedings because it is fraud by false representation, an offence under Section 2 of the Fraud Act 2006.
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