B.C.'s emergency dispatch centre for 911 calls, E-Comm, has released it annual list of the top 10 most unnecessary calls made to 911 last year.
Some of the top offenders include callers complaining that someone wasn't picking up after their dog to "people were playing basketball on a public court at nighttime."
E-Comm, which handles 99 per cent of 911 calls made in B.C., says there were a record-setting 2.1 million calls made to 911 last year, up 1.8 per cent from the total number of calls made in 2021. "We regularly get callers stating 'I know this isn’t an emergency, but I didn’t know who else to call,'" said E-Comm call taker Mark Kolomejac in a release Wednesday.
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