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)