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While "call before you dig" and the 8-1-1 phone number is the primary awareness campaign in the United States, Canada has switched to "click before you dig" to emphasize online locate requests and contacting one-call centers virtually rather than calling. [21] [22] August 11 is National Safe Digging Day. [23]
411 NDA: National Directory Assistance. 411 is dialed and the operator is requested to search for a listing in an area code not local to the caller. For example: The caller lives in area code 630 (Oak Brook, Illinois) and requests a listing for a business in area code 213 (Los Angeles, California). In this case, AT&T Illinois bills the call.
Clickable map of Colorado area codes in blue (with bordering states). [1] The U.S. state of Colorado is served by five telephone area codes of the North American Numbering Plan (NANP). Area code 303 is the original area code assigned to the entire state when the first nationwide telephone numbering plan was created in 1947.
Colorado Bureau of Investigation (CBI), a division of Colorado Department of Public Safety, [2] is a law enforcement agency of the state of Colorado that performs forensic and laboratory services and criminal investigations at the request of local and state law enforcement agencies and district attorneys.
The first use of a national emergency telephone number began in the United Kingdom in 1937 using the number 999, which continues to this day. [6] In the United States, the first 911 service was established by the Alabama Telephone Company and the first call was made in Haleyville, Alabama, in 1968 by Alabama Speaker of the House Rankin Fite and answered by U.S. Representative Tom Bevill.
Police arrested and charged a father and son early Thursday in connection with the killing of a pregnant teenager who was about to give birth and her boyfriend in San Antonio last month.
For example, Texas has created an Amber Alert, Silver Alert and Blue Alert (issued to locate an assailant in the event a law enforcement officer is killed or injured.) [66] In New York, Governor George Pataki vetoed Silver Alert legislation in 2003, citing his concern that it would weaken the Amber Alert system and make the alerts too common. [67]
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