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Save our call centres: Keep 999 local

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john farquhar
10 years ago

we need to keep local as a call centre in Glasgow or Dundee have no knowledge of our area or names of places

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Anonymous
10 years ago

Local police centres are vital to local policing. Take away the local police centre and you lose one of the bases of a local community. Don't let Holyrood cuts destroy our community!

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Joy Anderson
10 years ago

You need to keep Aberdeen as how would anyone not familiar with names for example Findochty and Aberchirder know of their pronounciation which is different to their spelling .Local knowledge is vital for a quick response.

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Anonymous
10 years ago

Please keep our call centres in Aberdeen and Inverness open.

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Anonymous
10 years ago

We must keep local knowledge, it could be the difference between life and death.

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Stephen riddell
10 years ago

Local knowledge of the area is a lot better when it comes to mobilising emergency vehicles

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Yuko Mitchell
10 years ago

Centralisation to the Central Belt is always bad news for the North.

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Trevor Mitchell
10 years ago

The less centralisation, the more effective.

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Amanda Duguid
10 years ago

We need to keep the call centres local, they have the most valuable info... "Knowledge of the local area)

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Neil Cooney
10 years ago

This is a crucial community safety issue: people come first not false economies.

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Anonymous
10 years ago

We need to keep these call centres - local knowledge can help save lives in times of emergency. Centralisation to this extent is foolish.

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Derek Buxton
10 years ago Featured

we need to keep our centres so people can find help quickly. I phoned for an Ambulance last week and there was a delay because the operater could not give the crew my local directions the operater was speaking to me from Inverness not Aberdeen shame on our government.

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Shirley King
10 years ago

We need thevpolice more in these troubled times.

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Moira Walker
10 years ago

Please keep our local call centres open. The people who man them know the local area and therefore can process the information effectively to the appropriate emergency services, therefore saving time and ultimately lives.

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Anonymous
10 years ago

Centralisation costs lives

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Anonymous
10 years ago

Lunacy considering closing local call centres in Aberdeen and Inverness. Totally different to central belt.One of main problems so many places/areas with same name. Only local knowledge could know this.

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Alison Mearns
10 years ago

It is so important we retain our local call centres, it is a step far to far in cutbacks

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Anonymous
10 years ago

Ridiculous idea!

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Barry Mathews
10 years ago

Ridiculous - Aberdeen, Inverness and the Northern Isles being controlled from the Central Belt who have little or no knowledge of the road systems in these areas.

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Norma Lawson
10 years ago

This is a must before there is a real tragedy..Nothing better than Local Knowledge. ..