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Save our call centres: Keep 999 local

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Sari Fraser
10 years ago

Putting peoples lives at risk. Reduce staff but keep it local.

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Anonymous
10 years ago

must be kept open people in Dundee do not have local knowledge for diving directions

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Jody Curtis
10 years ago

keep up the good work. Our emergency call centres are vital to public safety!

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Mike George
10 years ago

My wife and I live in Banffshire. In an emergency we need to speak to someone with local knowledge. Many local people of our age group (we are both 74) also need someone who understands the Doric. It's bad enough having to speak to someone in Aberdeen or Inverness - both over 50 miles away. Trying to explain an emergency situation to someone in the south of Scotland could well cost someone's life.

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Gordon Bentley
10 years ago

This is just another step by politicians to obtain political control of the police. It is easier to control 1 force rather than several.

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Anonymous
10 years ago

Save the controlrooms in Inverness and Aberdeen

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Allison mcintosh
10 years ago

Saving money isn't as important as saving lives

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Anonymous
10 years ago

Having used the call centre previously, I feel that we MUST maintain the local knowledge and keep the call centres open

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cliff astrand
10 years ago

Its only common sense

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Katherine Trail
10 years ago

Valuable local knowledge will be lost, and lives put at risk as a result

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Anonymous
10 years ago

Having worked at the Force Control Room in Aberdeen and outlying areas, local knowledge is paramount for Officers responding to incidents in a timeous fashion. Closure would cause unnecessary delays.

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Anna Weir
10 years ago

Don't let other tragedies happen - keep local call centres with local knowledge open.

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Alastair Willett
10 years ago

Stop centralisation. Local centres are the only way to efficiently service our area.

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Greg Winter
10 years ago

Keep the knowledge and jobs local! So much for national resilliance if everything is in the central belt!

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Derek Mclennan
10 years ago

No way will centralisation benefit the north of Scotland...Keep it local

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M Dalgarno
10 years ago

This decision must be reversed before more tragedies occur

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Fiona Whiteford
10 years ago

This highly rural area depends on local knowledge to get the emergency services where they need to be accurately and speedily.

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Neil Robertson
10 years ago

This is centralisation gone mad! It will take LONGER for a staff member in central belt to answer a call from the north due to accent issues and local knowledge. So where is the sense or financial saving in the proposal?

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DENNIS GRATTAN
10 years ago

Keep them open for vital local information .....

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Maxine Comack
10 years ago

A ridiculous idea, people are going to die. There is more to Scotland than just the central belt.