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Back in when the Post Office ran the telephone network, operators were alerted to an incoming call by a flashing red light and a klaxon. A article in the Post Office Telecommunications Journal described fairly chaotic scenes in its call centres during 's early days. It was even suggested in the press that the buzzers were disturbing other people living in the vicinity of the exchanges! Thankfully for the call handlers, technology has led to efficiencies in dealing with a huge growth in calls over the years.
Mobile phone technology in particular led to a dramatic spike in the number of calls made. When the service was first made available to mobile phones users in , fewer than 19 million emergency calls came into BT annually.
Half of those, though, weren't put through to the emergency services because had been unintentionally dialled from people's mobile phones or they were prank calls. Of the calls that were put through, more than half asked for police assistance.
The next most requested was the ambulance service, followed by the fire brigade and, finally, the coast guard. It's a pattern that has been consistent since the number was introduced.
Met Police historian Mr Paterson says the sheer volume of calls represents the biggest change since he started out as a police officer in the s. And the pace of life has got much faster - people expect an instant response. Flashing red lights and a klaxon alerted operators to a call. Several of these systems are directed primarily toward the provision of emergency medical services.
Other countries which have provided three or two-digit emergency number, either universally or for large population segments, include West Germany; Caracas, Venezuela, which developed its system in with the help of the United States; and Winnipeg, Canada, where the system has been in service since Canada is currently developing a national system utilizing and Australia has implemented throughout their country. In January of , the American Telephone and Telegraph Company announced that within its serving areas the digits were available for installation on a national scale as the single emergency telephone number.
Further stimulus toward the creation of a nationwide number was provided by the Commission on Civil Disorders and Federal Communications Commission which urged the telephone industry to provide a three-digit emergency telephone number. These various recommendations had in turn received impetus from growing public concern over the increase in crime, accidents, and medical emergencies and from Federal Government awareness that current emergency reporting methods were inadequate and that in a population as large and as mobile as ours, a common emergency number made sense.
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