The Police Service of Northern Ireland introduced a single non-emergency number in 2005 - 0845 600 8000.
The non-emergency number combines the old NHS Direct service with surgeries' own out-of-hours arrangements.
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The Dublin Department of Foreign Affairs emergency number is: 00 353 1 408 2000.
The Dublin Department of Foreign Affairs has also released an emergency number: 00 353 1 408 2000.
The Foreign Office emergency number for British people worried about friends and relatives is: 020 7008 0000.
An emergency number for Britons worried about friends and relatives has also been issued: 020 7008 0000.
We contacted the emergency number a couple of weeks ago, when our water was off for three days.
Ofcom started a consultation process on the emergency number issue in July 2007.
Calls to the 101 non-emergency number included one reporting a character in an ITV soap opera as a murderer.
The emergency number used to call ambulances and the fire service was out of action for more than an hour.
The caller to the force's non-emergency number who reported the murder of Carl King in Emmerdale gave his name as "Alan Sugar".
Hitting it would automatically dial the preset emergency number -- presumably for in case you crash your sports car or, ironically, get robbed.
Calls to an emergency number run by Samusocial de Paris, a government-funded charity that allocates beds in emergency shelters, doubled between 2009 and 2010.
The new 101 non-emergency number in Scotland is designed to simplify the way the public contact the police, while reducing pressure on the 999 system.
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The operator tried to give the woman an emergency number for the power company but she would not believe police did not deal with electricity.
To complicate matters, only 77% of 911 call centers are in compliance with the wireless locating technology, according to the National Emergency Number Association, a public safety industry group.
Research carried out by Ofcom suggests few people know that net phone services, aka voice over IP, do not connect to 999 or 112, the European Union's universal emergency number for mobiles and fixed lines.
The calls to the 999 emergency number included a man reporting that "someone robbed my marmalade", a woman saying her sister had brought a stray dog into her house and a man stating that he had seen "a chicken walking down the road".
The Scottish government has no plans to introduce a similar non-emergency phone number, a spokesman said.
An emergency contact number for relatives concerned about people possibly involved in the North Sea Helicopter incident has been issued.
Tayside Police have praised the public for embracing the new non-emergency phone number, designed to take pressure off the 999 service.
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Hundreds of thousands of phone calls to the new police non-emergency 101 number are going unanswered, figures from forces in England and Wales suggest.
Although the rental agency might have a daytime reception desk and an emergency phone number, there's no houseboat concierge to get you tickets to the Concertgebouw.
The RCN said the problems had been exacerbated by the rollout of a new non-emergency 111 number, although the bad weather was also likely to have been a factor.
The emergency line number is 0800 052 0400.
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He said his girlfriend told him to pick it up in a doggy bag to ensure he did not touch the ear, which he took it back to his flat before calling the non-emergency police number.
At the height of the storm, the National Weather Service issued a tornado emergency for a number of areas in and around Oklahoma's capital city, with tornadoes reported outside Moore, near the suburb of Bethany, north of Union City and outside Tinker Air Force Base.
The investment has also funded an additional number of emergency nurse practitioners.
In turn, this fuels the downward spiral of more uninsured (or under-insured) patients and more ED visits for the decreasing number of emergency departments.
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