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Originally Posted by garinda
'The initiative, which is part of a new Home Office drive to make police forces more responsive and accountable, is meant to help people who might not be certain how to report minor crimes.
Its introduction follows the failure of the new non-emergency number 101, which was introduced in 2005 to ease pressure on the 999 system but abandoned two years later.'
Text 66101 for police instead of calling 999 - Telegraph
I fail to understand how if Joe Bloggs didn't grasp the telephone number to ring for 'minor crimes', and that that initiative failed, how the introduction of a similar text scheme will be more successful.
I can certainly think of more important ways the police could have perhaps used the £3.5 million poind budget the scheme's cost. |
If you are too stupid to be able to look up Police in the Phone book or at
www.bt.com you are probably incapable of sending a text message anyway.
I wonder how much we are paying these idiots to think up these ideas. We have been reporting minor crime for years before mobile phones were even thought off.
I can't believe some people idea of non serious crime either. I was at a Neighbourhood Watch meeting the other week and they were talking about a group of youths that were fighting on a nearby street. Someone was saying the non emergency number was not being answered at Greenbank. I said that someone led on the floor with a group kicking him is a 999 call.
I have used 999 while on the motorway to report debris in the road as you don't know the local Police to phone when driving down the M6. They thanked me and said they would send a car to sort it out. When I told someone the story they thought I was wrong to phone 999 for that. the Police must have agreed with me that preventing a pile up was an emergency.
About a year a go I reported a car drifting from lane to lane on the motorway almost out of control. The driver was an elderly lady and she looked very unwell. About half an hour later the Police phoned me back to thank me for reporting it and to say she had been taken to hospital after they stopped her. That was a 999 call as well.