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999: What's Your Emergency? is a British television documentary. Broadcast on Channel 4 , the show provides insight into modern Britain through the eyes of the emergency services, using a mixture of fly-on-the-wall footage taken at incidents and retrospective interviews with the people and staff featured.
[1] [2] The 101 service was created to ease pressure, and abuse of the existing 999 system. Hazel Blears, then a UK government minister in the Home Office, stated that the new system would "strengthen community engagement". [2] In 2004, ten million 999 calls were made in the UK; however, 70% of those calls were deemed not to be an emergency. [2]
The first series of seven episodes aired in late 2014. [2] Filming took place at Luton Police Station over a six-week period [3] using more than 80 cameras. [4] Channel 4 commissioned further series, with the second airing in early 2015. [5] A few episodes have taken place wholly or partly elsewhere in Bedfordshire and in Cambridgeshire.
A woman called 999 asking for pizza delivery, but her reason for contacting police was much more sinister. A Metropolitan Police call handler soon realised the call from the woman was in fact a ...
The first wave of police forces will start embedding domestic abuse specialists in their 999 control rooms early next year to stop emergency services missing opportunities to save women’s lives.
Measures had previously been put in place after it was found that in the year ending June 2023, the force had answered only 59.2% of 999 calls within 10 seconds, far lower than the 90% target.
The 999 phone charging myth is an urban legend that claims that if a mobile phone has low battery, then dialling 999 (or any regional emergency telephone number) charges the phone so it has more power. This was confirmed as untrue by several British police forces who publicly cited the dangers of making such calls.
Domestic violence victims need to be heard the first time they call 999, a campaigner whose niece was killed by her ex-partner after calling the police multiple times has said.