Skip to main content

Save our call centres: Keep 999 local

596 Comments

C
Craig Anderson
10 years ago

Call centres need to stay local, if you are needing help quickly you need to be able to speak to someone who knows the local area.

L
Linda Lawrence
10 years ago

Local knowledge is crucial for the emergency services to do their job.

C
Chris Pauley
10 years ago

Not from the area but work there. I'm signing this as a symbol of my belief in local call handling for emergency services everywhere. I hope this makes its mark!

J
Julie Rae
10 years ago

Please please keep our call centre open, we need local knoledge on the end of these calls.

J
Jackie Burke
10 years ago

Keep it open - it's the right thing to do.

C
Cornmeal Douglas
10 years ago

This would be a massive mistake and loss to the area. It will affect the service provided.

T
Tom Cairns
10 years ago

Na

A
Andy Cruickshank
10 years ago

Undoubtedly a vital resource for keeping the people of the North East safe, and the emergency services safe too!

J
Jennifer Forster
10 years ago

Local knowledge is necessary for this job!

D
Donna Gray
10 years ago

We can all but hope... Maybe too little too late... Unfortunately us staff members were never consulted!!

R
ruan [eat
10 years ago

took a while to explain where my son had crashed, just as well he wasn't desperate!

S
Steph McLean
10 years ago

Local knowledge will help save people's lives. Shutting them will kill!!

A
Anne Banks
10 years ago

I signed this because, I once phoned and when asked where I lived and said the name of my ten, I was asked where was that? We need local call centres, and people who know this rural area.

A
Alison Cowie
10 years ago

Awful decision for policing in the north east

J
Julie Tawse
10 years ago

please do not shut the control room. Any experience I have of the control room and service centre here is so positive, local knowledge always wins.. dealt with the ambulance control room and even with the road number, location, east to west, local landmarks they still were asking where we were. You don't get that with local knowledge.

S
Sharon Gunason Pottinger
10 years ago

Local control and local jobs are both important. For those of us in the countryside with no street numbers, it is imperative that call centre folks know the geography.

B
bob mackay
10 years ago

Police Scotland are a shambles - it is going to get much worse after March 2016 if they close these call centres. A. Salmond - his snout still in trough though.

E
E.Mcintosh
10 years ago

far too much Central belt control ignoring the North & North East of Scotland

K
Karen Nicol
10 years ago

Need local control rooms with local knowledge for the safety of the public and officers attending calls This CANNOT be done from the central belt!

M
Marion Urquhart
10 years ago

It's very important to have local knowledge.