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Heavy equipment continue to work on the second segment of the Davao Coastal Road project in Times Beach along Matina Aplaya, Davao City over the weekend. Lean Daval Jr
PRANK CALLS Nuisance calls compromise safety of people: Davao 911
By MAYA M. PADILLO n Davao City, the most helpful numbers are 911. However, they can be used for pranks and non-emergency calls too.
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The surging number of prank calls to Davao Central 911, the city’s 24-hour helpline for emergencies and disas-
ters, have raised concern among Central 911 call personnel. Of late, call takers have complained of a number of uninten-
tional calls or non-emergency calls that are congesting up lines for real emergencies. Davao Central 911 chief Emmanuel Jaldon said these types of calls prevent real emergency calls getting thru 911 emergency lines and compromises the safety
of people who are in real emergencies and need help. Jaldon said majority of the calls going to Central 911 are non-emergency calls, which are mixture of caller asking for information or just inquiring utilities concerns which could have been
addressed directly to the of�ices or �irms concerned. “Common non-emergency calls such as calling to ask information like “asa ang sunog?” “kinsa ang head sa isang agency?” “Ngano wala suga diri sa amo?” and others,” he said.
He also said that the agency often receives prank callers nga gabinuang lang reporting fake accidents and �ire incidents. “There are also nuisance calls such as dialing 911 and just listening or just saying irrele-
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