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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]
911 or 999 Puerto Rico: 911 Saint Barthélemy: 17: 18 [23] Saint Kitts and Nevis: 911 Saint Lucia: 911 or 999 Saint Martin: 17: 15: 18 [24] Saint Vincent and the Grenadines: 999 or 911 or 112 [25] Sint Maarten: 911: 912: 919 [26] Trinidad and Tobago: 999 or 911: 811: 990 Turks and Caicos: 911 [27] U.S. Virgin Islands: 911
Ambulance responses in the UK are as follows. Some ambulance services allow driver discretion for Category 3/4 calls; this may be dependent on the type of call or how long it has been waiting for a response for. 999 calls to the ambulance service are triaged using either the NHS Pathways system or the Medical Priority Dispatch System.
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The emergency number 999 was adopted in Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada in 1959 at the urging of Stephen Juba, mayor of Winnipeg at the time. [4] The city changed the number to 911 in 1972, in order to be consistent with the newly adopted U.S. emergency number. [5] Several other countries besides the UK have adopted 999 as their emergency number.
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(a) To develop the use of personal radio services as an additional source of communications for emergencies, disasters, and as an emergency aid to individuals; [1] (b) To establish 24-hour volunteer monitoring of emergency calls, particularly over officially designated emergency frequencies, from personal radio service operators, and report such calls to appropriate emergency authorities; [1]