9-9-9 Day - Emergency Calls

BigglesPiP said:
My phone contains the non emergency number for Cumbria Constabulary.

If anyone doesn't know that the phone book is the place to start, then their parents have failed.

I was marshalling a rally in Grizedale with a bunch of air-cadets earlier this year, all over 16. When signing in, 2 out of 5 knew their home address. :eek: I knew my whole address when I was 4.
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how do you work that out....you're saying that my parents have failed because of what i have said? i've never bothered with the phonebook due to never needed it / never lived in a area where i needed to ring police over a issue
 
Wel I am a BT operator who filters the calls. Basically the guy that asks "Do you need Fire, Police or Ambulance". On Saturday three weeks ago at around 4am, it took 9 minutes for a chap in the wesy midlands force area to get answered simply because wmids police were short staffed.

This has been going on for some time now. How they get away with it is beyond me.
 
shrek2 said:
Wel I am a BT operator who filters the calls. Basically the guy that asks "Do you need Fire, Police or Ambulance". On Saturday three weeks ago at around 4am, it took 9 minutes for a chap in the wesy midlands force area to get answered simply because wmids police were short staffed.

This has been going on for some time now. How they get away with it is beyond me.
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9 minutes for a 999 call to be answered by police ?
 
mac1st3 said:
I'd probably start with calling directory, and asking for local constabulatory phone number, but I know what you mean, i've not idea what my local's non-emergency number is, never needed it.
Neice once called 999 when she was 2-3 years old, just mashing at the phone, we'd not realised it and just hung the phone back up, then got a phonecall from a very nice lady asking if there was an emergency.

needless to say, we were all quite a bit mortified and annoyed, but my neice had no idea
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Simliar thing happened to us, execpt the police turned up as the wee brat left the phone off the hook! :eek:

I had to be babysitting at the time though!! :o:p
 
It's actually been a very Quiet day today for us at WMAS no problems most of the day apart from a Regular caller who hasn't stopped calling.. the latest was asking us to bring her some Lettauce :D
 
osc89er said:
A couple of years back I nearly hit a cone that had been put on the line marking the middle of two lanes on a roundabout. Just a single cone in a place that looked like the local intoxicated riffraff had put it there.
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Err, just get out and move it?
 
D18241 said:
how do you work that out....you're saying that my parents have failed because of what i have said? i've never bothered with the phonebook due to never needed it / never lived in a area where i needed to ring police over a issue
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Oh, sorry, I didn't realise you're completely immune to crime.

The 3 calls I've made were all in the Lake District.
 
BigglesPiP said:
Oh, sorry, I didn't realise you're completely immune to crime.

The 3 calls I've made were all in the Lake District.
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your logic is kinda daft. your saying because ive never had to do it that i am immune to crime sounds like your saying altho ive never done it i should still know how do to it
 
Just added my local police number to my phone. I've mainly called 999 in past for my friend collapsing but at least if any non-emergency stuff comes up I won't be going through 118 118.
 
Von Smallhausen said:
If true then it is completely unacceptable.
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Very true. But at the same time think about the proportion of 999 calls each service gets.

They're deffinatley at the top, followed by the Ambulance Service and fire and of course lastly the coast guard.

By the time we're at say 300 incidents, police have easily 500 (As our incidents numbers go up as they come in by number)
 
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