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June 29th, 2012 
FAKE NEWS for the Zionist agenda The Metropolitan Police were live-tweeting 999 calls in London on Friday to celebrate this weekend’s 75th anniversary of the emergency number.
The Met announced that some live calls will be tweeted from 6 am until 6 pm via the Twitter account @MPSOnTheStreet under the hashtag #999live.
“For twelve hours on Friday, June 29, the public will be able to get an understanding into the huge variety of calls operators deal with on a daily basis — and gain insight into the pressures faced by staff as they have to make minute by minute decisions in the most difficult of circumstances,” the Met said in a statement.
Calls included a report of a school girl being assaulted by a man in Catford, while police were “urgently” attending a report that a four-year-old boy had gone missing in Hounslow. He was later found safe and well.
However many appeared — on the surface at least — to be somewhat less urgent.
In Enfield, police fielded a call from a member of the public “reporting (a) strange smell from parked car.”
And at 9.47 am, a tweet showed that a “member of public just reported a car parked in her driveway in #edmonton. Has been advised to make enquiries with neighbours.”
The inspiration for a special number for emergency services came in 1935 when five women died in a fire at a Wimpole Street doctor’s house, according to the Met.
Neighbours dialling 0 to ask the operator to alert police and firemen to the blaze found it jammed. At the time, automatic exchanges had no way to distinguish between “life and death” calls and everyday telephone traffic.
After a parliamentary inquiry, the 999 number was introduced as the new emergency number in 1937. It was made three digits long so it would be easy to remember, with the numeral 9 being chosen as it was easy to find on the dialpad in the dark or through thick smoke.
Adverts were taken out explaining how to use the number, according to the Met, with one at the time reading: “Call 999 if for instance the man in the flat next to yours is murdering his wife… If you have lost little Towser, or a lorry has come to rest in your front garden, just call up the local police.”
By 6.18 am Friday, the Met had already received 1,035 999 calls and 624 non-emergency calls for the day. On average, they receive some 14,000 emergency and non-emergency calls per day.
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