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Emergency calls
Just when we thought it could'nt get any worse, The Goverment are going to propose that the public be charged 10p to ring the police to report in the goverments eyes minor crimes, ie drugs offences/Non emergency calls etc.
What a way to combat crime?
Now who says crime dose'nt pay.
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For more on marking an answer as the "Best Answer", please visit our FAQ.Perhaps all the 10p's should go into the fund for house breakers who have been injured whilst climbing through windows or shot by angry farmers.
Another stealth tax.
What is the point of ringing basically a call centre to report something that is happening at the time, for this bored person to decide they had better tell the police, then the police to decide if they have the manpower to attend. By this time the criminal could be miles away.
Dial 999 tell them you thought you saw a gun or knife, can always be mistaken.
If there are too many calls get more operators in.
I have only dialled 999 once this was when I was told to by my local hospital. My mother was taken ill late at night, the doctor requested an ambulance, after over an hour at 1 am I rang the hospital to ask how much longer I would have to wait only to be told dial 999 and ask them. During the call the operator said I should not have dialled 999 to which I said I know but the hospital told me to. The operator was stunned. yes a wrong 999 call but what else could I do?
It will certainly help to "cut" the crime rate which is what the Government want. People are not going to sit in a call centre queue for 30 minutes at 10p a minute to report a crime they know the police will do nothing about.
Just for the record, the number owner ( ie the Government ) will earn 3.5p per minute from these calls. So yes crime does pay.
I think this country is slowly turning into a third world dictatorship where laws apply only to the few. People are also not going to pay their hard earned money to report a crime, so it will just not get reported, so the situation will now worsen but the police will look good as their statistics will improve by default.