"1 July 1937 using the number 999, and this was later extended to cover the entire country. When 999 was dialled, a buzzer sounded and a red light flashed in the exchange to attract an operator's attention. Because of loop disconnect dialing, attention was devoted to making the numbers difficult to dial accidentally by making them involve long sequences of pulses, such as with the UK 999 emergency number. That said, the real reason that ""999' was chosen is that the preferred ""000"" and ""111"" could not be used: ""111"" dialing could accidentally take place when phone lines were in"
"999 (UK TV series) 999 was a British docudrama television series presented by Michael Buerk, that premiered on 25 June 1992 on BBC One and ran until 17 September 2003. The series got its name from the emergency telephone number used in the United Kingdom. The series was a British adaption of the American TV series Rescue 911 which premiered in 1989. A number of specials and spin-off shows were also aired, including five series of 999 Lifesavers (1994–98) hosted by Buerk and Juliet Morris (later Donna Bernard), and ""999 International"" in 1997. In the first series, each episode included"
"the 999 system. Alternative three-digit numbers for non-emergency calls have also been introduced in recent years. 101 was introduced for non-urgent calls in England and Wales The scheme was extended to Scotland and Northern Ireland. Trials of 111 as a number to access health services in the UK for urgent but not life-threatening cases began in England in 2010. The main roll-out occurred from 2011 to 2013, with a number of delays, and was completed by February 2014. In Scotland, the NHS24 service moved from 0845 424 2424 to 111 on 29 April 2014. NHS Direct Wales continues to use"
"the police, ambulance services, fire and rescue services, and the Coastguard. A number of additional emergency services make use of the ECC of one of the four full-time services; for example, mountain rescue are contacted through police ECCs, and the lifeboat service is contacted through Coastguard ECCs. Types of centralised control have been in use since the beginning of emergency services in Britain, but the first to respond to the 999 number was in 1937 in the London area. Prior to this time there were assorted basic means of communication with centralised control, including operations rooms with telephones, maps, direct"
"Italian. 999 and 112 operators in Ireland answer the calls in under one second and say ""Emergency, which service?"". The caller may then request the Gardaí (the Irish police), ambulance, fire service, coastguard, or cave and mountain rescue service. The caller is then transferred to the emergency dispatcher for the appropriate service. In Bangladesh, 999 is the national emergency number. It officially launched on 11 December, 2017. This number is toll-free. Calling this number connects the caller to an operator, who then connects the caller to the police, ambulance or fire service. The services are provided under the national help"
"Emergency Services Day (United Kingdom) Emergency Services Day (also known as 999 Day) in the United Kingdom is an annual event on 9th September each year to promote efficiency in the UK Emergency Services, to educate the public about using the emergency services responsibly, and to promote volunteering across the emergency services in positions such as Special Constables and NHS Community Responders. The inaugural Emergency Services Day took place on 9th September 2018. The 999 Day begins from 9am to represent the 9th hour of the 9th day of the 9th month. The Emergency Services Day is part of the"
"Emergency Services Day (United Kingdom) Emergency Services Day (also known as 999 Day) in the United Kingdom is an annual event on 9th September each year to promote efficiency in the UK Emergency Services, to educate the public about using the emergency services responsibly, and to promote volunteering across the emergency services in positions such as Special Constables and NHS Community Responders. The inaugural Emergency Services Day took place on 9th September 2018. The 999 Day begins from 9am to represent the 9th hour of the 9th day of the 9th month. The Emergency Services Day is part of the"
"exceedingly rare later in ""Rescue 911""s run, and usually occurred in documentary segments or in those reenacting multiple casualty incidents in which other victims survived. The British version was called 999, which is the UK emergency telephone number. The British docudrama premiered in 1992 and ran on BBC One until 2003. In New Zealand, TV2 began screening the first season of ""Rescue 911"" in 1991 and subsequent seasons following this. At the start of each episode, the network would display a reminder to viewers that the emergency number in New Zealand is 111. In 1992, with the permission of CBS,"
"999 was inherited from British rule and continued after independence. The number is attributed more to requesting for the police, with the number 995, established in 1984, used for direct lines to the fire brigade and ambulance services of the Singapore Civil Defence Force. Because most of the population of Singapore is Chinese, it is likely that 995 was adopted because the Chinese pronunciation for that number (九九五, jiŭ jiŭ wŭ) sounds similar to the Chinese phrase for 'Save me' (救救我, jiù jiù wŏ). The Kingdom of Swaziland uses the 999 emergency number for police contact only. Also 975 for"
"999 (emergency telephone number) 999 is an official emergency telephone number in a number of countries which allows the caller to contact emergency services for urgent assistance. Countries and territories using 999 include Bahrain, Bangladesh, Botswana, Ghana, Hong Kong, Kenya, Macau, Malaysia, Mauritius, Qatar, Ireland, Poland, Saudi Arabia, Singapore, Swaziland, Trinidad and Tobago, Seychelles, the United Arab Emirates, the United Kingdom and Zimbabwe. 999 is the official emergency number for the United Kingdom, but calls are also accepted on the European Union emergency number, 112. All calls are answered by 999 operators. Calls are always free. In the United Kingdom"
"in all member states of the European Union. Both 999 and 112 are used to contact all emergency services: Police, Fire Service, Ambulance Service, and Coastguard. (Standard advice for Mountain Rescue or Cave Rescue is to ask the emergency operator for the police, who oversee the communication with these two services.) Both numbers can be called from mobile phones with the keylock on, or without entering the PIN where that would otherwise be required. Although some mobile phones allow emergency calls to be attempted without a SIM card, at present the UK networks reject such calls. Since November 2009, an"
"to an automated system which asks the caller to press 55 if they’re in danger. 999 or 112 is used to contact the emergency services upon witnessing or being involved in an emergency. In the United Kingdom, the numbers 999 and 112 both connect to the same service, and there is no priority or charge for either of them. Callers dialling 911, the USA's emergency number, may be transferred to the 999 call system if the call is made within the United Kingdom from a mobile phone. An emergency can be: All telecoms providers operating in the UK are obliged"
"999 999 (allocated to the Northern Ireland system) and 010 101 0000 to 311 299 9999 (used for CHI numbers in Scotland). NHS number NHS numbers are the unique numbers allocated to registered users of the three public health services in England, Wales and the Isle of Man; the three health systems use a shared numbering scheme. It is the key to the implementation of the electronic health record and its use is now compulsory in all approved NHS software. The modern style of NHS number was generally introduced in 1996, although they were allocated to every new-born baby since"
"SIM-less calls, in 2009 the UK networks introduced emergency call roaming. This allows a user with a valid SIM of a UK network to make emergency calls on any network for which they have coverage. Silent solution 55 is the name given to the initiative that allows people to call 999 when they aren’t able to speak. If there is no answer, the operator will then ask you to cough, or make another audible sign that you’re in need of police assistance. If you’re in too much danger to make any sound at all, the call will be put through"
"assistance and 115 for the fire service. The 112 emergency number is an all-service number in Poland like in other EU states, but old numbers that were traditionally designated for emergencies are still in use parallel to 112. Those are 999 for ambulance, 998 for fire brigade and 997 for police. In the United Arab Emirates the 999 service is used to contact the police who are also capable of forwarding the call as appropriate to the ambulance or fire services. The number 998 connects directly to the ambulance service and 997 to the fire brigade. In Singapore, the number"
"objects in the same pocket as a telephone (termed 'pocket dialling') or by children playing with a telephone. This problem is less of a concern with emergency numbers that use two different digits, such as 112 and 911 although on landlines 112 suffers much of the same risk of false generation as the 111 code which was considered and rejected when the original choice of 999 was made. The pan-European 112 code was introduced in the UK in April 1995 with little publicity. It connects to existing 999 circuits. The GSM standard mandates that the user of a GSM phone"
"due for a country-wide roll-out by 2021. The health service of Northern Ireland will be able to introduce its own similar service using the 111 number if it chooses to do so. During 2007, the Department of Health's ""Our NHS, Our Future"" report identified confusion surrounding access to certain NHS services in England and suggested the introduction of a national, three-digit number for out-of-hours healthcare services could help simplify the situation. Arrangements to identify and secure a suitable non-emergency number for England began in July 2009, with the number 111 allocated by telecommunications regulator Ofcom in December of that year."
"999: What's Your Emergency? 999: What's Your Emergency? is a British factual programme, following the emergency service. Series 1 followed all 3 frontline services in Blackpool, Lancashire. Series 2 followed ambulance services throughout the UK. Series 3 followed the work of the police and ambulance services in Cheshire. Series 4 followed the work of police and ambulance services in Wiltshire. The first series was filmed in Blackpool over 6 weeks in 2011 and follows members of the Police service, the Fire service and Ambulance service as they work together to tackle crime and disorder in Blackpool. The third series was"
"operator assistance. The first known use of a national emergency telephone number began in the United Kingdom in 1937-1938 using the number 999, which continues to this day. In the United States, the push for the development of a nationwide American emergency telephone number came in 1957 when the National Association of Fire Helicopter recommended that a single number be used for reporting fires. The first city in North America to use a central emergency number was the Canadian city of Winnipeg, Manitoba in 1959, which instituted the change at the urging of Stephen Juba, mayor of Winnipeg at the"
"was taken forward by all four police forces, who adopted the number for non-emergency calls on a permanent basis in early 2009. In England the scheme was on trial until 2012, when it was adopted nationwide and the cost to call changed from 10p per call to 15p per call. In Northern Ireland, the number was introduced by the Police Service of Northern Ireland in March 2014. The operator is obtained via 100 from landlines, while directory enquiries, formerly ""192"", is now provided in the 118xxx range, e.g. 118 212, 118 800, 118 500, 118 118, by different companies. International"
"emergency call can be made through any UK mobile network as long as there is a SIM for any valid UK network in the handset. Although UK VOIP phone providers are required to offer 999 / 112 service this is subject to a registration for the service and with a verified service address and users need to be aware such service may not work in a power blackout; However International VOIP providers may not provide this service. The chargeable number 101 was introduced for non-urgent crime and community safety calls on a trial basis in 2006. In Wales, the scheme"
"(including 7 July 2005 London bombings), adverse weather, or severe staff shortage. Private ambulance services are common in the UK, with over 200 providers, and their use under contract to the NHS to answer 999 calls has been growing year on year, with every NHS ambulance trust using private providers in each year from 2011–2014, and contracted providers answering three quarters of a million 999 calls in that three-year period. Expenditure on private ambulances in England increased from £37m in 2011–12 to £67.5m in 2013/4, rising in London from £796,000 to more than £8.8m. In 2014–15, these 10 ambulance services"
"the Fire Service. In early 1958, the Postmaster General approved the provision of the service using the number 111. 111 was specifically chosen to be similar to Britain's 999 service. With pulse dialling, New Zealand telephones pulse in reverse to the UK - dialling 0 sent ten pulses, 1 sent nine, 2 sent eight, 3 sent seven, etc. in New Zealand, while in the UK, dialling 1 sent one pulse, 2 sent two, etc. In the early years of 111, the telephone equipment was based on British Post Office equipment, except for this unusual orientation. Therefore, dialling 111 on a"
"U.S. emergency number. Because of the design of U.S. central office (phone) switches, it was not practical to use the British emergency number 999 (as was briefly considered). What was up to that time unassigned area code 911 was chosen instead. The ""1"" as the second digit was key; it told the switching equipment that this was not a routine call. (At the time, when the second digit was ""1"" or ""0"" the equipment handled the call as a long distance or special number call.) The first 911 emergency phone system went into use in Haleyville, Alabama in 1968. On"
"appropriate force. The emergency number 999 or 112 should be called in emergencies, when an immediate police presence is needed. These include cases where: A 101 call may be transferred to the 999/112 call handlers if it is deemed to be an emergency. A textphone service is available on 18001 101 for those who are deaf, hard-of-hearing or speech-impaired. All of these calls are routed to a National 101 operator who will determine the correct police force, and introduce the caller to the police operator. The ""Daily Mail"" in December 2014 and ""The Telegraph"" in October 2015 reported on problems"
"card. Some people have reported accidentally dialling 112 by loop-disconnect for various technical reasons, including while working on extension telephone wiring, and point to this as a disadvantage of the 112 emergency number, which takes only four loop disconnects to activate. Southern California Telephone Co. began using 116 as an emergency line for Los Angeles, California in 1946. The emergency number 999 was adopted in Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada in 1959 at the urging of Stephen Juba, mayor of Winnipeg at the time. The city changed the number to 911 in 1972, in order to be consistent with the newly adopted"
"as part of their licence agreement to provide a free of charge emergency operator service. As of 2014 emergency calls made on any network in the UK are handled predominantly by BT, although other emergency operator services are provided by Vodafone (ex-Cable&Wireless) and Level 3 Communications (ex-Global Crossing, previously British Rail Telecoms). On dialling 999 or 112 an operator will answer and ask, ""Emergency. Which service?"" Previously operators asked ""Which service do you require?"" (approximately up to the mid-90s). The operator will then transfer the call to the appropriate service's own call-taker. If the caller is unsure as to which"
"is often available alongside other numbers traditionally used in the given country to access emergency services. In some countries, calls to 112 are not connected directly but forwarded by the GSM network to local emergency numbers (e.g., 911 in North America or 000 in Australia. 112 was first standardised by a recommendation by the CEPT in 1972 and later by a decision of the EU Council in 1991 and subsequently reaffirmed in 2002 by article 26 of the Universal Service Directive and its subsequent amendments. This choice of number has the following advantages: The countries which use the 112 number"
"alert trains to the emergency and to stop them if necessary. The instructions on the signs then state 999 should then be dialled and that the Police should be requested. Access to the 999/112 service is provided for the hearing-impaired via Textphone and use of the Text Relay service, run by BT to cover all telephone providers, and previously known as the RNID ""Typetalk"" relay service. The number is 18000. 999 is also accessible via SMS for pre-registered users. The service is open for anyone to register and works with all major providers in the UK. It is important for"
"for fire, police and ambulance in the main service area (e.g. Auckland, but not for not minor exchanges) were listed in bold on the first page. Following the 1947 Ballantynes fire in Christchurch, fire officer Arthur Varley was recruited from the UK to bring about a reform of the fire service. Familiar with Britain’s 999 system, he campaigned for the setting up of a universal emergency telephone number across the country. In mid-1957, a committee was set up to institute a common emergency number across New Zealand, consisting of the Post and Telegraph Department, the Police, the Health Department, and"
"National Emergency Services Memorial, UK. It was founded by Tom Scholes-Fogg in August 2016 and launched in September 2017. The UK Prime Minister, Theresa May supports the Emergency Services Memorial and the Emergency Services Day (United Kingdom). The Leader of the Opposition, Jeremy Corbyn has also given his support for the Emergency Services Day. The inaugural main national 999 Day event took place on Sunday 9th September 2018 at Heaton Park, Manchester, England from 9am until 4pm.<ref name=""BBC.co.uk/news""></ref> The charity announced in November 2018 that the main national Emergency Services Day event in 2019 would be held in Edinburgh, Scotland."
"some ambulance services are considering trialing a 999 video calling service, in order to be able to visually assess patients whilst crews are en route. The National Health Service Act 1946 gave county (and county borough) councils in England and Wales a statutory responsibility to provide an emergency ambulance service, although they could contract a voluntary ambulance service to provide this. In 1977/78 ambulance services in the UK cost about £138m. At that time about 90% of the work was transporting patients to and from hospitals. The Regional Ambulance Officers’ Committee reported in 1979 that “There was considerable local variation"
"desk, which has been set up at a cost of Tk 60.50 crore. In the past, dialing 100 would connect to Bangladesh Police, 101 to Rapid Action Battalion, 102 to fire services, 103 to ambulance service and 104 to the Access to Information Programme under the Prime Minister's Office. 999 was introduced to Hong Kong for emergency services (Police, Fire-fighting Services and Ambulance Services) during British rule and continues to be used following the transfer of sovereignty. Macau also adopted the 999 number; it also introduced two emergency hotline numbers: 110 (mainly for tourists from mainland China) and 112 (mainly"