Homicide, burglary, and requests for chicken nuggets – Met Contact Centre shares details on prank calls received in 2020. Operating across London, staff at the Met Contact Centre (MetCC) are on hand 24 hours a day to give essential assistance to police staff and distressed Londoners. And in a report released today (Dec 30), the MetCC revealed that from January 1 to December 1, 2020, staff received 3,540,185 calls to 101 and 999 services. Although over half came from callers who required immediate assistance – for burglaries, violent crimes and murder scenes - other requests were stranger. Amongst these were requests for chicken nuggets and a caller who said, remember to shower, I can smell you from my house .
Homicide, burglary, and requests for chicken nuggets – Met Contact Centre shares details on prank calls received in 2020. Operating across London, staff at the Met Contact Centre (MetCC) are on hand 24 hours a day to give essential assistance to police staff and distressed Londoners. And in a report released today (Dec 30), the MetCC revealed that from January 1 to December 1, 2020, staff received 3,540,185 calls to 101 and 999 services. Although over half came from callers who required immediate assistance – for burglaries, violent crimes and murder scenes - other requests were stranger. Amongst these were requests for chicken nuggets and a caller who said, remember to shower, I can smell you from my house .
Calls to the Met s Contact Centre in 2020
News • Dec 30, 2020 06:00 GMT
Homicide, burglary, and requests for chicken nuggets – Met Contact Centre shares details on prank calls received in 2020
From the period 1 January to 1 December 2020, staff at the Met s Contact Centre (MetCC) fielded a total of 3,540,185 101 and 999 calls, with over half coming from callers who required immediate assistance. Requests for service included attendance at ongoing burglaries, violent crimes and murder scenes.
MetCC’s 1,710 employees, who operate from three different call centres across London, are on hand 24 hours a day to deliver essential operational assistance to the officers and staff who make up the service, and be a point of contact for Londoners who are sometimes in extreme distress.
A request for chicken nuggets and fake reports of killings and burglaries were among more than 3,000,000 time-wasting calls received by the Metropolitan Police this year.
The Met s Contact Centre (MetCC) received 3,540,185 hoax 101 and 999 calls from January 1 to December 1 this year, with more than half coming from callers who required immediate assistance.
The calls included one person telling operators to remember to shower, I can smell you from my house and an individual ringing four times in one night for a chat .
The Metropolitan Police s Contact Centre (MetCC), who operate from three different call centres across London, received 3,540,185 hoax 101 and 999 calls from January 1 to December 1 this year. (Stock image)