To be so embarrassed

[soembarrassing19]

DP and myself were having a small argument on Xmas eve day about how much we had spent on the kids. I accidentally rang the police from my pocket and they came round due to hearing us arguing. They said it was due to them having no response on the phone and believed it to be a DV call.
They came round and took us into seperate room and asked us questions. We all laughed about it in the end but they did say it would have to go to social care as kids involved but the most we would probably get was a phone call. So embarrassed that this has happened.
Worse still, we knew the police officers through work.

As someone who works in a police control room, you'd be surprised how often this DOES happen.

@conduitoffortune I'm minimising nothing. All that's happened is they have followed protocol. It was a call where I didn't say anything. They have to
Follow it up.

@Sleepycat91 DPs friend works in police control too. He said the exact same as you.

Not quite sure why people thing she would like about this and make a thread especially to. Weirdos

Op, you do understand, irrelevant of what's written here, a full police report will be provided to social services, inc what they heard, results of interviews and why they are reporting, right?

I have very nearly called 999 from my i-phone several times. It can happen, especially with the emergency call function.

In terms of police tracing phones, earlier this year I found myself in a situation where somebody I knew made a suicide attempt. I didn't have his address, but I did have his mobile number. I thought the police wouldn't be able to help but they found him very very quickly and he fortunately survived. They can trace mobile phones.

MilkTwoSugarsThanks

“How on earth do you call emergency services accidentally from your pocket? I didn't think it was possible with modern phones.”

I’ve done it. Middle of a shop. Watch, which was linked to phone, went off too. Took me a bit of time to realise it was my devices.

I think I‘d moved my phone in my pocket, touching home button and then caught emergency button.

@Bluntness100 no because we weren't interviewed. All they did was ask is both if we were ok and ask the standard safeguarding questions. Social care will be notified but that is all. There will be no full police report.

wether my phone was in my pocket or in my hand fiddling with it.

Presumably you weren’t messing with your phone during the argument, which must have been when the call was made.

@MintyMabel I was on and off. It wasn't an intense argument. More a heated discussion over Christmas presents.

If there are children in the family then Social services may well call you to discuss the call out to your house. It is their decision based on the info the police pass on. I think you know people on here, you are covering up ready for when (potentially) your employers and colleagues find out due to the nature of your work. Because you seem to know plenty about what the procedures are.

I don't think my colleagues will find out as such. It's more the parents I work with, the reason I am in contact with social care. Same with DP and his work.

How about, before accusing the OP of lying, you check to see whether a phone can accidentally call the police when in your pocket, rather than assume her to be untruthful? A quick Google has revealed that it can and very much does happen. Quite frequently in fact.

www.avonandsomerset.police.uk/news/2019/08/avon-and-somerset-police-are-urging-people-to-check-they-dont-accidentally-dial-999-after-380-hours-were-spent-on-abandoned-calls-last-month/

Phones can VERY easily be tracked

Not by the Police they cant. It's very very difficult. If we get a dropped 999 and theres sounds of a disturbance we call back. If theres no reply we then check the phone number through the systems we have available to see if the caller has had any Police involvement. If they havent it's generally a case of phoning the number regularly til we get hold of them. Tracking a phone is very complex and time consuming and only done in serious life threatening situations. Even then it's not like CSI it gives a location of which mast it last connected to. In a populated area that really doesnt narrow things down any

The police told me to call 999 from a landline if it wasn't safe to speak, as although they might eventually be able to trace a mobile it would take too long in an emergency.

@Redglitter we've had police involvement twice in the last two 6 months due to a robbery and car accident. They have my number. Probably how they've traced my phone.

Hi @soembarrassing19 I’ve managed to dial 112 whist sat on the beach without realising.

They proper shouted down the phone to get my attention.

Did it twice more in the same day.

Also an iPhone (must have caught in the lumpy bits in my wetsuit)

Why would the parents you work with find out anything?

No comment on anything else but I used to work in the police control room. We had SO MANY accidental calls. Loads of them. We had a specific protocol for dealing with them and the handling of them had it's own training section. So for all those saying it isnt possible that op phoned them by accident...

I called the police by accident on my partners Apple Watch. I had held down the side button too long and it called them! They called my partners mobile to see if anything was wrong and took both our details and also spoke to me over the phone. It was very embarrassing for me!

On the back of this thread, I've just tried to 'accidentally' see if I can find the emergency call screen shown upthread by a PP, by 'messing' with my locked iPhone. I couldn't...but what happened was an SOS screen suddenly appeared and counted down from 3..2.. with 'DIALLING EMERGENCY SERVICES' flashing and a high pitched sort of screeching noise 😳😳. I definitely wasn't expecting that!! Luckily I had enough time, before it got to '1' to cancel the call, but OMG it was NOT subtle!!

I shan't be doing that again in a hurry 😳 So embarrassing to have to explain myself to a control operator had I been unable to cancel in time!

The police were once walking up and down our street because someone had dialled them from a mobile and they were trying to track them down. They came back several times but I don't think they ever narrowed it down to a house. Were you still arguing when they arrived? That's an incredibly quick response to say they had to work out your address too.

I guess it's terminology but the taking you into seperate rooms and asking questions is what I meant by interview.

And there must be a police report. They need to explain to social services why they are referring uou for further investigation.

But there is nothing to be embarrassed about, I'm sure they will tell them it was a mistaken call and you all laughed about it, that there was no sign of a domestic disturbance.

CorBlimeyGovenor thank you so much for that article! I have changed my phone settings.

@imaflutteringkite no I was upstairs knaked just about to get in the shower 😱 DP didn't shout loud enough that they were coming. The policeman nearly saw me in all my glory 🙈
Hubby was wrapping presents!