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“Pocket dialing” and incorrect long distance attempts account for 17 to 20 per cent of all 911 calls made in the city, according to the Abbotsford Police Department (APD). Const. Ian MacDonald said these misdialed calls, which also include children playing with phones and people asking non-emergency questions such as the time, amount to about 1,000 each month in Abbotsford. “No matter what the cause, these draw on APD communications centre resources as we have only so many staff and so many phone lines and impact on the VIDLEIONE time of officers who are often sent ON ws.com to confirm there isn’t an emerabbyne gency,” he said. MacDonald said a 911 call made from a land line is easy to call back and confirm whether an emergency exists. However, cellphone calls are more difficult to trace, as the phone number doesn’t always show up on call display or indicate the caller’s exact location. In Abbotsford, 911 services are handled by E-Comm – the regional emergency communications centre – which reported on Tuesday that more than 100,000 accidental calls were made to 911 last year in Metro Vancouver and surrounding areas. E-Comm estimated that more than 70,000 of those calls (200 per day) were inadvertent calls Continued on A7
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Fraser Valley Stage is presenting H.M.S. Pinafore in Abbotsford on April 18-21, featuring the vocal talents of Mark Kroeker and Tiffany King. The local group will then take the show overseas, entering it in the International Gilbert and Sullivan Festival in Buxton, England.
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