What does the constable do?

[teachermom2834]

Why might a constable be knocking on my neighbor's door? From inside my house it looked like two men in bulletproof vests. My neighbors weren't home so I guess they will be back.

 

Is it possible they could be delivering legal papers regarding legal action for nonpayment of a bill? There are money problems I think 😟

 

If you witnessed such a thing would you give your neighbors a "heads up" that the constable was there or just stay out of it?

 

I have never before felt like the neighborhood busy body but I guess I am. Just not sure what to think or do.

[maize]

I'd stay out of it.

[maize]

The couple of times police have shown up at my door they were looking for relatives of the former home owners. Don't know why.

[Rachel]

One visited my husband the morning of our wedding to serve papers that he was being sued. It was from a car accident a couple of years earlier and the statue of limitations was approaching.

[teachermom2834]

Thanks everyone. I will definitely stay out of it. Dh says we didn't see a thing and he is more level headed about these things.

 

I like my neighbors so I hope it is something not traumatic for them.

[Zinnia]

Our nephew is a constable.  He serves warrants.  That's pretty much the extent of what they do from what I understand (it's a position that we don't have where we live, but he loves it).

[AnnE-girl]

If there's money problems, maybe a foreclosure or eviction?

[kiwik]

OK here a constable is a basic policeman/woman. Is it more like a baliff where you are?

[amo_mea_filiis.]

Our constables serve court papers and sometimes collect money.

[teachermom2834]

It appears in our state it is an unpaid position that does serve legal papers and evictions.  So not a regular police officer.  

 

It is possible it is foreclosure or other financial matter.  :sad:

[DesertBlossom]

I know our constable serves evictions and if the tenants still don't leave, he shows up to kick them out.

[Janeway]

Constables do not usually look like that. Did their car say "constable?"

 

They usually serve papers. That is about it.

[teachermom2834]

Constables do not usually look like that. Did their car say "constable?"

 

They usually serve papers. That is about it.

Yes. Clearly marked "xxx County Constable"

[Spryte]

My guess is that it's something to do with the money issues.  Fingers crossed it's not a foreclosure.  

 

Hoping it was a mistake.