Please please, if you are in a volatile or abusive relationship, being able to text the police in an emergency could save your life, or your children’s lives... however it only works if you’ve pre-registered your mobile number.
We see it on the Relationship threads all the time. Someone ends up in a desperate situation where they are very shaken up and scared after their partner has hurt them or threatened them, and they are scared for their safety. It’s usually late at night and the poster is usually too scared to make a noise though can write messages /text from their phone, maybe from the bathroom.
That’s when they tend to get advice from well meaning posters telling them they can SMS 999 from their phone and the police will come... except it doesn’t work unless you have registered your phone number!!!
Which is utterly terrifying, imagine being desperate enough to need to text the police (or ambulance) silently as you cannot speak, ... and no help arrives.
So please please text 999 now with the word ‘register’. You get an automated text back with t&c’s and a bit more info. After you’ve read that you text back YES and when you’ve had a confirmation text, you’re all signed up and done. That’s it.
It is easy and quick to register. And then you are able to text the emergency services if you ever need to on that phone number.
Do it even if you don’t tho k you need to, because no one knows what could happen in the future, and when it could come in handy, for literally 20 seconds of your time now.
This is a thread prompted by another thread/s, but it’s in a positive way I hope, and not about that other thread, if you see what I mean?