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Police Contact Centre Staff, ask me anything

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Twolargewatersplease · 30/04/2019 20:49

Anything at all (I know this has been done before but not for a while , I think) :)

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LipstickHandbagCoffee · 30/04/2019 22:37

Well it’s a mn perennial,but do police log a call Just in case.keep on it file for indefinite period

Twolargewatersplease · 01/05/2019 14:26

I can't speak force wide but there are very few calls we dont log in the force I work for. And they're then there forever, can't delete them. Even calls that aren't a police matter are logged and then closed, but still kept on file. I dont think all forces work this way though.

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BricksInTheWall · 01/05/2019 18:51

When you report an initial incident, and then call up to update/add extra incidents onto the log that are happening still are they added on to your original report or logged as single incidents? I've had to deal with something this week and have needed to call back a few times as asked to do should anything else happen, I have to go through it all over again which is quite distressing, and the next day I'll get a constable calling me to inform me that no further action will be taken at this time for the thing I wanted added on to my original report. I am undecided at this stage what action to take next as it'd be a serious charge should I move forward and so all of these extra events are case building imo. So when the officers told me to call up and report anything further and it'll be added to the log is that actually possible or not? And if so what do i say to make sure that's what happens?

TeaForDad · 01/05/2019 18:53

Do you 999 and 101?

JoyceDivision · 01/05/2019 18:54

What particular calls(appreciate you can't be too detailed) have stuck in your mind, either good, bad or bonkers?

Twolargewatersplease · 01/05/2019 20:12

bricks it depends what it is. If it's a proven crime, it gets logged then put onto the crime system and all related incidents will be also put on the same crime on the system. If serious ie requiring deployment, the log will either be reopened and then sent for deployment OR if not serious, the crime will be updated and the officers dealing alerted.

That sounds very stressful.

PM me the details if you want, but what I would do is say you're feeling harassed, alarmed and distressed. Is it the same person doing these incidents? (If you want to answer here).

teaforDad Yes, I am not sure if It's different anywhere else but where I work we all do both, although some shifts we'll be put on one or the other for the whole shift. If 999 start queuing up though, the 101 staff get those too.

Joyce... Oh god so many. Good ones-are also bad. It's when something bad happens, and police save people and often I am still on the 'phone calming a distressed caller and I hear the relief when police arrive.

Bad-I HATE the ones regarding 'looked after children' who are missing, or commiting crimes, or have done something awful. They make me so sad-and sometimes you have to look back at previous incidents and you can sort of see where it went wrong. I hate outright animal abuse too. Someone who ran a sanctuary had someone purposely take their fight-bred dogs there to kill the new animals. What sort of sick fuck person would do that?

Bonkers ones- so many. People reporting someone (a stranger) because they looked in their window as they walked past. Or people ringing 999 and expecting immediate police attendance (usually on a Saturday night) because they left their phone in a pub or lost their handbag somewhere in their house. Or wanting police to pick them up because they've not got their taxi fare home and they're drunk (I mean grown adults here)!

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Ciasteczka · 01/05/2019 23:34

I had to ring in a RTA and one of the things that still really troubles me is the person on the other end of the phone kept asking me if they were still alive - I told them I didn't know but they kept asking. Is this a cuts thing?

IAmNOTBent · 01/05/2019 23:47

I 'logged a call' about an ex boyfriend who threatened me. If he did the same to someone else subsequently even if in a different area of the UK would it show up?

Twolargewatersplease · 02/05/2019 09:33

ciasteczka no, that is odd. I'd have asked maybe any injuries first off, if you said you didn't know , at the end of the call I would maybe ask once more in case anything had changed. I wouldnt ask if they were still alive either. Sometimes if you're sending an emergency thru to district , especially in n urgent one like that, district will be typing on the log at the same time and they may miss something youve said and ask you and you may forget if you've asked already. It could have been that.

iamnotbent there are a number of police forces that use the same crime system. Not all do though, if they were using the same one it would show up. Depending on the severity of the threat, police will speak to the force area that held his data. It may have also been added to the national database used by all forces too and intelligence, again depending on what he has done or said, will check that.

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