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Save our call centres: Keep 999 local

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Anonymous
10 years ago

There is no substitute for local knowledge.

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Dawn Gray
10 years ago

No comment needed, it's common sense!!!

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Anne MacIver
10 years ago

We need to be local particularly in the Highlands with the large area and Gaelic names.

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Margaret Croll
10 years ago

999 is for emergencies, lots of luck with an excited Aberdonian trying to explain the emergency to a Glaswegian!

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Mairi MacKinnon
10 years ago

Centralisation of control rooms will potentially put lives at risk. The Highlands and islands region is a vast and unique geographical area, good local knowledge is crucial for the safety of residents in the region.

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Robert Craik
10 years ago

I think that the further cost cutting within Police Scotland which will result in the closure of the Aberdeen & Inverness Call Centres will put the general public resident in these areas at serious risk of injury and possibly death compared with those in the South of Scotland who have call centres near at hand.

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Evelyn Pirie
10 years ago

We need to keep 999 call centres in the local area for knowledge and local dialect of residents. More so the elderly!

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Linda
10 years ago

Keep our local control room LOCAL

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Marjorie Charles
10 years ago

We need to retain our local call centres with staff who have knowledge of our area.

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Iris Walker
10 years ago

We need local services retained for local people

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T.Burslem
10 years ago

We desperately need local call centres with local knowledge.

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Anonymous
10 years ago

It is madness to close both of these call centres, the people who are taking calls in the central belt would not understand the accents or the areas with strange sounding names. Have they not learned their lesson from the tragic deaths near Stirling. Is it a case of north of the central belt is of no importance to this government.

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Evelyn Pirie
10 years ago

We desperately need services locally for every aspect of safety, speed and local knowledge. Doric has to be understood more so for the elderly members of our area.

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Evelyn Pirie
10 years ago

We desperately need services locally for every aspect of safety, speed and local knowledge.

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Evelyn Pirie
10 years ago

We desperately need services locally for every aspect of safety, speed and local knowledge. Doric has to be understood more so for the elderly members of our area.

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Joan Murray
10 years ago

In an emergency you need to speak to someone who understands regional dialect and geography.

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Margaret Hood
10 years ago

We need local call centres to keep the public safe. centralized call centres are bad for all areas north of Glasgow, we need to feel safe in the knowledge that our calls are being recorded!

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Carol Menlove
10 years ago

Local knowledge is vital for fast and effective communication and policing.

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JMD GRANT
10 years ago

HOW CAN AN OPERATOR BASED IN THE CENTRAL BELT POSSIBLY BE FAMILIAR WITH LOCAL NAMES & LOCATIONS IN THE HIGHLANDS. THIS IS A RECIPE FOR DISASTER FOR HE NORTH.PLEASE PLEASE KEEP OUR LOCAL CALL CENTRES OPEN.

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Morag MacLeod
10 years ago

Local call centres are vital to the local communities. Local knowledge is vital to help the local people in their hour of need. Does an operator in the Central Belt have the local knowledge for the Highlands and Island or rural Aberdeenshire? No they don't. Keep our local call centres open.