Wednesday 12 October 2022

All The Technology In The World Won't Help...

Police took three days to find the missing body of an 85-year-old man in his car​...

Yeah, Police Scotland does have a reputation for this, after all. 

...that had automatically called 999 when he crashed.

Wait, what? You couldn't make it up, could you?

6 comments:

Doonhamer said...

Can I suggest a Polis get-out?
If the car ended up off the road, then obviously it is not the responsibility of the Highlands and Islands Road Policing Unit, HAIRPU.

Fahrenheit211 said...

The relevant officers were probably at a diversity training course which in today's police forces appears to take priority over actual police work.

MTG1 said...

'The relevant officers were probably at a diversity training course..'

Nah...without additional financial incentives for attendees, a training course is too much like work for the chronic stay-at-home malingerers.

Anonymous said...

"Called 999"

Have you actually tried it recently?

I can't speak to nationally, but my personal experience is that after waiting some few minutes I finally got to spend ten minutes pressing pressing additional 'option' keys ("If you would like to hear the emergency service options in Urdu, with Gujarati subtitles - in a racially sensitive mauve tint, press option #2674").

I 'did' eventually get through to a well-spoken lady who 'patiently' informed me I "needed to call 101" as "being assaulted, though not just right at that moment - since I was too busy lying on the floor bleeding, was not an emergency".

So? I suspect the poor automatic call was stuck somewhere between option #1 "Has someone said something you don't like on Twatter?", to option #3724 "Are you currently bleeding to death?". I'd say three days was about right, even for a person wading through the farcical system.

JuliaM said...

"The relevant officers were probably at a diversity training course..."

Well, quite!

"So? I suspect the poor automatic call was stuck somewhere between option #1 "Has someone said something you don't like on Twatter?", to option #3724 "Are you currently bleeding to death?". I'd say three days was about right, even for a person wading through the farcical system."

Good grief, does nothing work anymore?

The Cowboy Online said...

Dial 999? What's the point of that? Should have got tweeted a transphobic slur. Far more effective in getting plod's attention.