Emergency Call
An emergency call is defined as a situation where a person’s life or property is in danger or threatened. In-progress calls are where crimes are being committed at the time of your report.
Examples of Emergency Calls
- Accidents with injuries
- Attempted suicides
- Rescue calls
- Ambulance calls
- Persons injured or bleeding
- All fire calls
- Strangers forcibly entering a house
- Strangers carrying household articles, appliances from neighbor’s house
- Someone trying to gain entrance to your home
- Group of persons with weapons preparing to fight
- Automobiles stopping to pick up a person walking along the street and it looks that the person doesn’t want to go, especially young children.
- Shootings
- Stabbings
- Armed robberies
- Rape
Information the emergency operator will want to know:
- A description of the emergency you are reporting. (What did you observe?)
- The address or location of the emergency you are reporting.
- Your name, address and telephone number.
- Number of persons involved.
- Descriptions of the persons involved.
- Direction taken by the escaping suspects.
- Is suspect in a vehicle or on foot?
- Plate number and description of vehicle.
