By Uzma Zafar
ISLAMABAD: Islamabad police helpline – Safe City Rescue 15 – received 3790 phone calls during the last 24 hours and provided immediate assistance on various help seeking calls.
According to the report issued by Islamabad Police, a total of 3790 calls. Out of these calls, 3480 calls were irrelevant to police and 310 were promptly responded by police. 29 calls were related to crime, 31 about traffic and 250 calls were miscellaneous.
Director Operations Safe City Rai Mazhar Iqbal has said that an average of 3,150 calls are received at this helpline on daily basis and most of these calls are not relevant to police.
IGP Islamabad Dr. Akbar Nasir Khan in a statement said that such hoax calls waste the time of police and deserving people become unable to contact police in time.
He appealed citizens to avoid making calls to police on irrelevant matters as these may delay prompt response to the citizens seeking police help in emergency cases.
DG Safe City said that police have launched an awareness campaign on social media while legal action would be also initiated against those making hoax calls.
