"Judith Latham" wrote in message
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would entirely trust them.

On a very rare night when we were out at about 2am driving home from a
friend's house, DH realised we had a police car following us. They
followed us for miles and only when we turned right towards our street (we
were about 100 yards away by then) did the police car turn left. Obviously
we were going home and hadn't stolen the car or anything. Actually, it
made me feel that they do keep an eye on what's going on. Maybe even saw
us safely home.

No, they weren't seeing you safely home, they were following you to see
what you were doing at 2 a.m

Once upon a time one of my brothers was a milkman and got up at stupid o
clock to do it. He got stopped by police cars regularly on his way there
"why are you out at this time of night?"
They thought he was a burglar!