BLOOMINGTON - Bloomington's police chief said he found nothing wrong in officers' decision to break through doors of a home after receiving no response and hearing a scream inside.

But a resident said she wished officers would have said who they were. And she said police officials weren't immediately helpful after the raid left her with no doors in the middle of the night.

"I'm certainly not going to answer the door at 4 o'clock in the morning unless someone's identifying themselves," said Angela Willis.

Police received a call about a woman being held against her will early Sunday at a home next door to Willis's home on West Locust Street. Police Chief Roger Aikin said officers found nothing wrong at the home they were called to, but they saw lights on in Willis' home next door.

Willis said she and her boyfriend, Chris Page, both work into the evening, so both are often up late. He was playing a videogame when police came to her home, she said.

Willis, who is two months pregnant, said she woke to dogs barking and pounding on her front door about 3:30 or 4 a.m., and she began walking down the stairs to find out what was happening. She screamed because she was startled as her boyfriend rounded a corner, she said.

"He assumed that it was a home invasion, they were trying to break in our house," Willis said. "So he grabbed his cell phone and locked the window and ran upstairs."

Willis said Page told her he had seen through a window two men in dark clothing pounding on the door, and he assumed they were trying to break in. He called 911 on his cellular phone, and a dispatcher said the men at the door were police.

Before Page or Willis could get to the door, police officers broke in, she said.

Aikin said the officers, who were in patrol uniforms, saw someone through the window. The person moved away from the window and the officers heard a woman scream.

"They're going to force entry, and I would too," Aikin said.

Bloomington officers can use their own judgment in announcing a police presence, Aikin said. And they won't say who they are if they think someone inside could hurt another person because police are there.

Aikin also said nobody came to the door to ask who was there.