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According to the National Police Agency, 1,516,082 out of 8,502,927 calls to the police emergency number 110 between January and November 2022 were not urgent. Of the total, 622 calls involved using a system allowing police to receive videos of the events concerned, such as crimes and accidents, from callers. The system was launched in October last year. The 10th of January is designated as "Dial 110 Day" by the NPA.
The agency urges the public to dial 9110 for non-emergency cases.
Examples included a call to 110 from a man complaining that his TV wasn't working. He couldn't watch Japan's World Cup game; water wouldn't come out of the faucet, a strange noise was coming from a caller's telephone, a request for instructions on how to renew a driver's license, a clock was broken, a library visitor upset that another person started reading his newspaper in the library, a package ordered and paid for online was not delivered and some individuals who were drunk asking for a ride home in a police car because there were no taxis.
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The agency urges the public to dial 9110 for non-emergency cases.
Examples included a call to 110 from a man complaining that his TV wasn't working. He couldn't watch Japan's World Cup game; water wouldn't come out of the faucet, a strange noise was coming from a caller's telephone, a request for instructions on how to renew a driver's license, a clock was broken, a library visitor upset that another person started reading his newspaper in the library, a package ordered and paid for online was not delivered and some individuals who were drunk asking for a ride home in a police car because there were no taxis.
Police took 1.63 million nonurgent emergency calls from January to November 2022
Of the total calls received, 622 involved the use of a system allowing police to receive videos of the events concerned, such as crimes and accidents, from the callers.
Police ask public not to use 110 number for non-urgent calls
The National Police Agency (NPA) is asking the public not to use the emergency 110 phone number to make non-urgent calls. The NPA said in a report released Monday ahead of Tuesday, which is designated as 110番の日 (#110 Day), that from Jan 1 to Nov 30 last year, approximately of…
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