• davidgro@lemmy.world
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    20 hours ago

    I think the non-emergency number should be heavily advertised. I have no idea what the local one for me is (if it even exists)

    • shortwavesurfer@lemmy.zip
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      13 hours ago

      Maybe they need to send something out to residents every six months or something, letting them know about the non-emergency number because I have this exact same issue. I’ve lived here for three years and have no idea if a non-emergency number even exists. It probably does. I just haven’t looked it up because I haven’t even thought about it.

    • tiramichu@sh.itjust.works
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      19 hours ago

      Promoting that the nunber exists as a actual thing people should use is good, yeah. :)

      The actual number isn’t so important, though. If ever needed to call the non-emergency number I’d search it up, which fortunately I can do given I’ve got loads of time because it’s not an emergency.

      • BassTurd@lemmy.world
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        18 hours ago

        I would bet there are large swaths of people that don’t know there is a nonemergency number to look up.