Police in Guelph, Ont., are reminding residents to not let kids play with previous cellphones after an unregistered machine dialed 911 greater than 120 occasions in a single night.
The Guelph Police Service says the identical telephone referred to as the emergency quantity not less than 129 occasions between 4:40 p.m. and 9:30 p.m. Sunday.
Communicators may hear a baby throughout most of the calls however had been unable to get anybody’s consideration.
Officers had been dispatched in an try and find the machine utilizing GPS information transmitted with the calls. Police say a number of addresses had been checked, however the telephone was not situated and no emergency was discovered.
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Police say any functioning cellular machine can name 911, even when it isn’t linked to a service plan or has its SIM card eliminated.
Nonetheless, the approximate location supplied by such gadgets is often far much less correct than from a telephone linked to a mobile community.
Every incoming name from the machine was assigned a quantity starting with 911, permitting communicators to verify they had been coming from the identical telephone. However as a result of the machine was not linked to a community, it couldn’t be referred to as again.
Police are urging residents to rethink giving previous cellphones to kids except they’re absolutely disabled.
To stop unintentional calls, police counsel eradicating the battery or permitting the telephone to empty utterly earlier than handing it over.
Anybody who by chance dials 911 is urged to remain on the road and communicate to a communicator to verify there isn’t any emergency, stopping the pointless use of police sources.
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