Nuisance, trivial and prank calls made up nearly a quarter of calls to the Northern Territory’s emergency call centre in 2022, according to recent police data.
Statistics provided to The Epoch Times from the NT’s Joint Emergency Service Communication Centre (JESCC) show that 82,323 (22 percent) of the 379,559 calls made in 2022 were time-wasters.
One example of a time-waster, as reported by the ABC, was when a man called to get his license renewed, but was answered with: “This is triple-0, life and death emergency, not for a licence.”
While call times were not available, a spokesperson for the JESCC said in an email that since Jan. 1, approximately 78 percent of 131 444 calls were answered within 10 seconds, while nearly 65 percent of 000 calls were responded to within 10 seconds….