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Dialling Emergency: 112 to Be India’s 911
- schoen 11y agoThe article says that "in New Delhi, the national capital, there also is a separate helpline dedicated to deal with crimes against women, one to report missing children and another police line that is an exclusive response center for senior citizens". This reminded me of the extremely large number of emergency numbers in Brazil: 100 Secretaria dos Direitos Humanos 128 Serviços de Emergência no âmbito do Mercosul 180 Delegacias Especializadas de Atendimento à Mulher 181 Disque Denúncia 190 Polícia Militar 191 Polícia Rodoviária Federal 192 Serviço Público de Remoção de Doentes (ambulância) 193 Corpo de Bombeiros 194 Polícia Federal 197 Polícia Civil 198 Polícia Rodoviária Estadual 199 Defesa Civil (Note that Brazil also has at least 29 other free call numbers for various public and telephone company services, in addition to the ones listed above.) This is five different police forces that you can call, plus a separate crime-reporting line, among other things. It's hard for me to imagine that users make very optimal choices among them in emergency situations. On the other hand, I feel a lack of a standardized way in the U.S. to call the police for non-emergency matters. You're supposed to look up the local police department's non-emergency line in the phone book or on the local government web site.