The police of London has recordings published of a series onzintelefoontjes from the past year. A whistling bus driver or slow service in a café? Irritated people call to the police.
Today we have released seven genuine 999 calls where the incident was not an emergency and police time was wasted, potentially putting other lives in danger in what could have been a life or death situation https://t.co/qtw0hUaHbM pic.twitter.com/1876CpoVWc
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“good Morning, sir. I travel with the bus and the driver sits already the whole time to whistle”, can be heard on one of the sound clips. “I mean, everyone is tired. What if everyone started to whistle or sing in the bus?”, continues the woman. A baffled operator of the alarm control panel should then explain that the police are not uitrukt to whistling directors to address.
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other callers to turn out the tasks of the police rather broad sense. So did anyone in march to report that a fast food restaurant without the chicken sat. Also called a man because he is not allowed to drive with the bus. Later it turned out that the vehicle with bad luck stood on the side and don’t reed. The police was also not to wait on a woman on January 1, called for the corps ” have a nice new year’ wishes.
Imagine if one of your friends or loved ones was in need of the police as quickly as possible and it turned out we could not help because we were having to deal with one of these hoax calls #ThinkBeforeYouDial pic.twitter.com/WGtGNS9jcW
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“Others in danger”
The call center of the police of the British capital processed between 1 January and 30 november, a total of some 2 million notifications. It went into 21.733 cases to onzintelefoontjes, says the police. Who warns that features of the lives of others in danger.
“Try yourself to imagine that one of your friends or loved ones to the police as soon as possible. And then it turns out that we can’t help because we with this hoaxtelefoontjes are busy,” says superintendent David Jackson. “I am sure that many of you, like we, that horrible would find it enormously frustrated by.
