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Save our call centres: Keep 999 local

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Dayna haywood
10 years ago

Keep 999 service

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Elizabeth Cosgrove
10 years ago

I have had to call 999 and I know how effective our local service is.

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Linda Pirie
10 years ago

These must be saved or more unnecessary tragedies will occur.

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F.McMillan
10 years ago

Response time in emergencies will be helped by local knowledge of the areas.

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Anonymous
10 years ago

If these plans go through the North East of Scotland misses out yet again. We deserve better. Keep it local.

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Mrs Dorothy Aikenhead
10 years ago

To avoid risking lives we truly need local call centres as they alone know the area, and the dialects of the North of Scotland.

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Anonymous
10 years ago

We need a local call centre For 999 calls as rural North-East Scotland is very difficult for outsiders to find their way around. Local names are repeated and GPS doesn't always work up farm tracks!!

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Kenneth McEwen
10 years ago

I believe knowledge of the local area could be critical in interpreting and directing emergency calls.

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Margaret Gallacher
10 years ago

In an emergency every second is vital, so local knowledge can be the difference between life and death. We must keep call centres local!

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Chloe Minish
10 years ago

Our police officers are already under immense pressure from the loss of resources and negative media attention as a result. Don't make the situation worse!

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Ian Buchanan
10 years ago

The SNP's centralisation of everything in the Central Belt is killing the rest of Scotland. With this, they'll soon be killing its people more easily.

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Marion Sutherland
10 years ago

Local knowledge is essential when callers are worried or scared and less able to think clearly.

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Freda Edmond
10 years ago

Keep it local - local knowledge is best

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Joanne Smith
10 years ago

Local knowledge and a high standard of training are vital to ensure the safety of the public within Grampian and The Highlands.

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Lesley Dutton
10 years ago

Use your loaf. Keep it local. Don't lose lives.

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Ronald Dickson
10 years ago

Save the centre

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A Dunbar
10 years ago

calls will go to one of 3 central belt call centres, then be passed back to a control room in Dundee if officers need to be dispatched to somewhere in rural Scotland - how can Police Scotland not see that more tragedies will stem from this.

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Councillor Martin Greig
10 years ago

It is disgraceful to close this local service without good reason.

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Moira Mapley
10 years ago

It is vital to keep this local - our services are all crumbling and people are going to die - where the hell has common sense gone - everything is about money when it should be about PEOPLE

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Clive Pottrt
10 years ago

You need local knowledge. Google Maps (etc.) often gets things wrong