Some Police forces including the Met and Devon & Cornwall Police have introduced a non-emergency phone number. It's 101. It's available in some other areas and will be nationwide by next year. Here's a link about it:


http://www.direct.gov.uk/en/CrimeJusticeAndTheLaw/Reportingcrimeandantisocialbehaviour/DG_185338

thought most had an 0845 ?

I assume they got the idea from the royal mail ?

999 the 1st class service for the more urgent crime, 101 for 2nd class items?

& like they royal mail they reserves the right to fail to do anything,

in fact don't they want the right to go on strike ? (RM like to strike)

Maybe we should combine the 2 ?  & get PSCO's to carry a mail bag whilst they wonder the streets ?

good grief I think you have something there....

I wonder if there is a voice prompt thing, press 1 to report a crime press 2 for what ever - I hate those phone setups

About time though its a pain in the arse having too look them up in the telephone book to report kids in the street riding motor bikes without crash hats, or stealing hub caps of your neighbors mondeo

Would it not be press two for a crime number and we wont bother to do anything about it.

They're talking of setting that up over here (thought it was 111 though) and you can now report incidents on a web based form.

111 is the Euro/American 999 number that was adopted here a few years back. Try it, see what happens

so 911?

That as well
111 works in Europe and USA IIRC

yeah you get a copper with gun, here 101 gets you a soical worker, 999 is lottery however you most like to get a memeber of the police service which is normal a qouta fillin in the form of 5ft nothing, same sex liking, who's liable to bee too thick to get the right address....... I forgot to add "ethinc", nearly forgot my racism then!

Whats that joke, bloke rings up and says there is a break in across the road . They say too busy no one available, so he hangs up.
Calls back 2 mins later saying dont worry, i`ve shot him.

3 mins later a helicopter 5 cars 7 vans and 50 copers turn up, asking where the man who is shot is. Bloke says Thought you had no one available?