A raccoon that was shivering in the cold, a landlord that refused to replace a tenant’s carpet and a television that wouldn’t turn on.
Those are just a few of the frivolous 911 calls received by Hamilton’s emergency dispatch centre in 2019.
To raise awareness to the problem, Hamilton have again released their top 10 list of frivolous 911 calls along with a video in which officers read the transcripts from some of the calls. Another caller, meanwhile, said that they had a mouse in their apartment and wasn’t sure if “you guys do something for these things.”
“Non-emergency calls take up valuable resources and potentially delay responding to those individuals in a genuine emergency,” Hamilton police said in a press release issued Friday morning. “A 911 emergency is when someone needs help right away because of an injury or an immediate danger.
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