Nuisance callers dial up 999 logjam

Nuisance callers dial up 999 logjam


This pranksters dial 999 for minor things or just for fun. During one morning, a Staff Sergeant received three prank calls within an hour. The caller of the first call just remained silent on the other line. The caller of the second call mumbled a vague excuse, apologised and hung up,. The caller of the third one complained about his neighbour confronting him about his blaring and he went on saying his nine month old child needed to listen to very loud music to sleep. The Staff Sergeant firmly told him that she would not send the police down and advised him to lower the volume of his music the next time. There are also some people who dial 999 to ask for the contact numbers of hotels, ministries and other agencies.


I feel that this 999 dial line is the reason Singapore is so safe. Whenever there is a criminal case, robbery, theft or kidnap this number is the number people use to contact the police and inform them. We should never take advantage of it or make fun of it. I shall show an example of how it will slow down our efficiency in catching criminals. If an old lady gets rob by some person and a passer-by calls the police, as there are too many prank calls in the headquarters and the staff took a longer time to res pond to the call. By the time the police arrived at the crime scene, the snatch-thief would have ran away. Now you see the outcome in making this prank calls, do you still want to make people suffer because of the sake of you having fun?Think about it.