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Police – 999; Ambulance – 997; Fire – 998; Traffic police – 993. Singapore: 999: 995: Mobile phones – 112 or 911; Non-emergency ambulance – 1777; Police hotline – 1800 255 0000; Traffic police – 6547 0000. Sri Lanka: 119: 110: Traffic police – 112 691 111. Syria: 112: 110: 113: Traffic police – 115. Republic of China 110: 119
TelVerde antidepresie: 0800 0800 20. A toll-free anti-depression hotline which is available 24/7. Helpline anti-anxietate: 0374 456 420. A toll-free anti-anxiety hotline which is available 24/7. Russia: 112 is the national emergency number in Russia. 051 (or 8495051) is a 24-hour emergency number for Moscow residents
999 is the official emergency number for the United Kingdom, but calls are also accepted on the European Union emergency number, 112. All calls are answered by 999 operators, and are always free. [2] Approximately 35 million 999/112 calls are made in the UK each year, with 74% from mobiles and 26% from landlines in 2022. [3]
The "1" as the second digit was key; it told the switching equipment that this was not a routine call. (At the time, when the second digit was "1" or "0" the equipment handled the call as a long distance or special number call.) The first 911 emergency phone system went into use by the Alabama Telephone Company in Haleyville, Alabama in 1968. [6]
An example of a P6 call is community outreach, patrols or property to collect. The KPI for attendance of P6's is 30 days. The Department of Fire and Emergency Services have two response codes: [10] Fire Call is the response that authorises lights and sirens, and disobeying road laws within reason.
Each dispatch determinant is made up of three pieces of information, which builds the determinant in a number-letter-number format. The first component, a number from 1 to 36, indicates a complaint or specific protocol from the MPDS: the selection of this card is based on the initial questions asked by the emergency dispatcher.
A "cocaine alert" sign posted by GGD Amsterdam: the sign reminds people to "Call 112 for an ambulance."112 was first standardised as the pan-European number for emergency services following the adoption of recommendation [1] by the European Conference of Postal and Telecommunications Administrations (CEPT) in 1976 and has since been enshrined a CEPT Decision ECC/DEC/(17)05.
Although the dispatchers still record the address of the emergency call manually, most systems are now set up to automatically log the location of the call. Unlike many emergency telephone number services, the 119 system in Japan only services fire and ambulance services. Police are called using a separate emergency telephone number, 110. [5]