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Save our call centres: Keep 999 local

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David simpson
10 years ago Featured

Must stay open for the sake of all in highlands and islands. Local knowledge is essential. Post codes in remote areas are next to useless and can cover a wide area, unlike towns and cities where they can identify property to within yards.

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Donna Turner
10 years ago

Please keep it local

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Susan Morrison
10 years ago

Local Knowledge is the key to keeping our areas safe.. closing these centres, will increase vulnerabilities and in some cases unnecessary deaths. Its already happened in the central belt area, Don't let this happen in the Northeast... IF Police Scotland go ahead... it will be disastrous for the staff and for our corner of Scotland. Mark my words!!

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Alison Brown
10 years ago

Save my job please!

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Morag Clark
10 years ago

We need these call centres to stay open they are the people who work hard to keep us safe

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Kevin Dickson
10 years ago

Closing down the Aberdeen branch would have devastating effects on Aberdeen and surrounding areas. Having a team of staff that have knowledge and understanding of local areas and people can be critical in moments of emergency. I would hate to think I'd be calling the police and speaking to someone hundreds of miles away with no local knowledge and who may not understand my acsent. KEEP ABERDEEN SERVICE CENTRE OPEN

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Shona Johnston
10 years ago

Sheer stupidity to not keep these services local

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Laura McDonald
10 years ago

We need to maintain our expertise within local areas to ensure our communities receive the best possible service. Keeping local knowledge Is paramount ensuring safety, effective, delivery .This can only be provided by the excellent staff who are employed in the local workforce.

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Gillian McLaughlin
10 years ago

Keep 999 LOCAL !

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Jim Brand
10 years ago

keep the call centres local

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Eileen MacLennan
10 years ago

Local knowledge is vital

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Lynda Watt
10 years ago

Local knowledge is vital, especially in country areas.

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George McIrvine
10 years ago

Keep policing local. Scottish Govt control freakery Centralisation ideology doesn't work. #polishambles

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William J Cowie
10 years ago

I have experience of centralisation with the water board. I reported a collapsed drain outside my house and had to contact their control room in the central belt. What followed was comical in that the wrong street was closed and when I told the workers they were on the wrong street they said they used Google to locate the street. I checked Google and found the street names where the incident was had the wrong name. If the police use Google then the same problem could arise. Local knowledge would have prevented this fiasco.

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Anonymous
10 years ago

Local knowledge is vital for 101/999.

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Wilma Mortimer
10 years ago

Too late for me where I worked but please don't let any more close

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Frank Winston
10 years ago

Keep police local not central

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DANIEL Sneddon
10 years ago

No one knows the local area like local people

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Rhona Strachan
10 years ago

to close local call centres is a cost cutting exercise which will back fire tragically.

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June Davis
10 years ago

It is vitally important to maintain our local call centres Centralising these services does not work Handlers new local knowledge in times of emergencies