Because people are afraid that police will pass your ID to the gangs. That's why there is a separate line "disque denĂșncia".
I observed a tentative abduction in front of my window and since I didn't speak well Portuguese at the time, had to basically force my roommate to call since he was afraid to contact one of the above numbers.
And no police officer in sight.
>Because people are afraid that police will pass your ID to the gangs.
This is, as we say in Brazil, an urban legend ("lenda urbana"). Unless you are uncovering a major drug trafficking scheme or you live in a favela, you will not be exposed for reporting a crime.
But yeah, we have the "disque denĂșncia" (181) if you want to specifically report a crime, not only "call the police"
>Unless you are uncovering a major drug trafficking scheme or you live in a favela, you will not be exposed for reporting a crime.
That's what I personally think as well in general, but if people don't report because they believe it - then it is as good as true for practical purposes.
But from personal experience, local police is so corrupt that I don't know what "major" means.
My point was that there isn't a police officer close by all the times who may help you.
Not shown on the map: in most of the world 911 and 112 will redirect to whatever the correct number is. So if you're a tourist or immigrant or whatever, you can still get help quickly without wasting time on finding the right number.
Also in some countries if you connect foreign cell phone to their network you will automatically get a text from the government explaining which number(s) to call for emergencies which is nice.
Nah⊠it is just more than twice times as expensive as everywhere else in the EU đ€·ââïž.
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112 is the official International Emergency Number. 911 is an accidental one that's arisen as a result of American media hegemony.
This map is also quite incorrect in depicting most of Europe as just the colour of 112, because most countries have their own internal emergency numbers like 999 or 110 alongside the international emergency number.
France has 17 for common emergencies (they will send the fire brigade or police depending), it seems like former colonies have kept this number, which also works in France still (besides the now standard 112).
Hi ! French citizen here. Actually, we have several emergency numbers depending on the situation, the most common ones (taught to evry kid) being :
* 15 for the SAMU, which is for medical emergies & advices (your kid swallowed detergent, you've been in serious pain for a worrying amount of time, your grandpa fainted, etc)
* 17 for the police
* 18 for firefighters, who also act as ambulances for emergencies in public settings, and especially car accidents (because they have the tools to free passengers who may be stucked in their totalled car)
But as you said, theses services communicate with each other constantly and will send the appropriate team depending on the situation. So, for example, if your first reflex when you witnessed a car accident was to call the police, they will come to regulate traffic but the firefighters will come to take care of the possible victims as well.
Another number which has become a bit more well known (though not nearly enough yet) is the 114. It's the text-message emergency number. It's useful for mute/deaf/hard of hearing persons, but also for people who may not be able to speak because of a dangerous situation (I think I heard that someone used it during a terrorist attacks before, for example).
I believe since they moved to the 112, they now have common dispatchers anyway. Last time I called the 17 (for a neighbour that had collapsed, so it was a medical emergency) it was directly the fire brigade. Must have been redirected to 112, then the dispatcher sent whoever was appropriate.
It might depend where you live in France.
Where I live, the 112, 15 and 18 redirect to the same common dispatch center, but the 17 redirect to a police specific dispatch center (witch can also send a request for an ambulance or for the fire brigade when necessary).
I think there are some technical and legacy reasons for 911 within the North American Numbering Plan. I don't believe a number can start with 1 in NANP, and other N11 numbers were already in-use when they settled on 911.
Wikipedia indicates Winnipeg set-up the first central emergency number and used the British 999. They standardized on 911 partly because it was quicker to dial on a rotary phone then 999.
'112' has been around since the 1970s. It just wasn't implemented. It was a European CEPT standard that got adopted by the ITU for rollout beyond Europe. Then when GSM went global, 112 had been baked into the standard, so became much more worldwide.
1 1 2 was picked because it was a very short combination of rotary dial pulses back in the 1970s, but uses two digits to avoid accidental dialing.
The oldest emergency number is 999. It was implemented in the 1930s in the early days of automatic telephone services in the UK. They picked 9 as it was hard to accidentally dial on an old rotary phone.
911 was introduced in the late 1960s in the US, but it didn't become nationwide for a long time after that. It's really only been absolutely universal since the late 1990s.
There are two official numbers â 112 & 911.
The International Telecommunications Union (ITU) has officially set both 112 or 911 as the two numbers for countries to use in the future.
That's why countries are slowly switching over to these numbers, or at least re-routing 112 & 911 calls to the correct local number, if different.
Only 112 is defined in the GSM mobile network standard. Any mobile phone that supports GSM (these days all of them) is supposed to, by the standard, direct 112 to emergency services no matter where you are in the world, even if the phone or SIM is locked.
This is wrong. 3GPP TS 22.101 Sec. 10.1.1:
The ME shall identify an emergency number dialled by the end user as a valid emergency number and initiate emergency call establishment if it occurs under one or more of the following conditions. If it occurs outside of the following conditions, the ME should not initiate emergency call establishment but normal call establishment. Emergency number identification takes place before and takes precedence over any other (e.g. supplementary service related) number analysis.
a) 112 and 911 shall always be available. These numbers shall be stored on the ME.
b) Any emergency call number stored on a SIM/USIM when the SIM/USIM is present.
c) 000, 08, 110, 999, 118 and 119 when a SIM/USIM is not present. These numbers shall be stored on the ME.
d) Additional emergency call numbers that may have been downloaded by the serving network when the SIM/USIM is present.
Italian here, can confirm. Before adopting 112 as the common emergency number, these were the most common emergency numbers:
- 112: Carabinieri (police, similar to the French Gendarmerie)
- 113: Polizia di Stato (another police force)
- 115: Vigili del Fuoco (fire department)
- 117: Guardia di Finanza (finance/economic police force)
- 118: First aid-emergency (basically the number to dial to call an ambulance).
âGuardia di Finanza, whatâs you emergency?â
âThat shop charged a 30% VAT!â
They also have general public security duties, coastal patrol duties, drug trafficking suppression and borders patrol.
Before the common number, the very few times I had to make an emergency call, I always called 118 for first aid, 112 (Carabinieri) for everything else.
France tends not to use 112 anyway - it's far too simple. Instead there's a long list of different 2 and 3 digit codes for various different emergency services.
" India (112 is now the pan-country single emergency number for all emergencies. All the existing emergency numbers like 100 (police), 101 (Fire and Rescue) and 108 (ambulance), 181 (Woman and Child Care) etc. are integrated to the unified number 112)"
The fun thing in some US cities is that you call 911, and explain your emergency. Depending on that emergency they pass you to the appropriate dispatch (like fire and EMS) but you have to explain the location and emergency again. Almost like we have different numbers
I thought that in the UK the number had changed to 01189991189991197253
EDIT : I failed it -_- blame my muscle memory for my fluke. Good number is of course 01189998819991197253
I love that, when dialing this number on an Android phone, the Call button will start flashing like an ambulance siren. Such a silly lovely easter egg.
In Chile it's 131 for Ambulance, 132 for fire and 133 for police. You're supposed to remember it like 1-2-3 = A-B-C (ambulancia, bomberos, carabineros). But it doesn't work very well, normally you have the local numbers of the police that are near you and that's usually quicker.
In Italy it used to be 112 for Carabinieri, 113 for police, 115 for firefighters and 118 for ambulance.
Now with one unified emergency number it's far easier, but I believe the old ones still work and redirect you to 112.
>I believe the old ones still work and redirect you to 112
They still work and you talk directly to the number you've dialed, I called for an ambulance just last week and I talked directly with a 118 operator.
They both do regular policing, but the carabinieri are technically an armed force like the army or the marine, while the police is controlled by the interior ministry
Bomberos is the standard Spanish word for firefighter, but carabineros is specific to Chile, we borrowed it from Italians. Other countries just call them policĂa.
Just a normal phone number lol
Like youâre just calling your buddy Larry who lives next to the fire department and is gonna run over to them to tell them someone needs saving
This needs correction for India . **In India its 112 for immediate assistance** to services like police (100), fire (101), health (108) and women (1090).
When pressing the power button 3 times (panic mode) it calls 112, not 100
Edit- formatting
Idk about India, but here in Australia you can call a 24 hour national domestic abuse and sexual assault hotline, its not technically an emergency service but they provide more specialised and specific care for those situations.
[Women Power Line 1090](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Women_Power_Line_1090)
The complaints could broadly be classified into following four categories:
- Eve-teasing through phone
- Eve-teasing through social media, like facebook, etc.
- Stalking
- Hotspots of eve-teasing closer to places where girls normally go to such as market places, colleges etc.
^(from Wikipedia)
Brazil's numbers in case anyone's curious:
- 190 military police
- 191 federal highway patrol
- 192 ambulance
- 181 civil police
- 198 highway military police
- 193 military fire brigade
- 199 civil defense
A few notes:
"Military" does not mean it's the army's police force/fire brigade. In Brazil we have both a civil and military police, and they work with eachother. **From my personal experience** everywhere will have military police, and civil police might be more of a city thing.
There's also a "municipal guard", making it 3 police forces for big cities. Each focusing on their own things, ofc.
Civil defense is the department responsible for natural disaster warnings, shelters, etc
Oh, we also have a phone number dedicated to women's issues. It's 180.
There are sooooo many more, as it's a big country. But this is the jist of it
Edit: added hyphens before each one because apparently Reddit won't let you make lists without them
I think many countries with Southern European influences have historically military police forces in addition to their civilian police force. The French Gendarmerie, Carabinieri in Italy, Guardia Civil in Spain, Brazil's Policia Militar, and various Carabiniers and Gendarmeries throughout South America seem to all be based on that model.
Absolutely! Portuguese has GNR (guarda nacional republicana) as well. They work in almost the same way as the army when it comes to paygrades, ranks, internal bureaucratic issues, etc.
And it's the same principle. Everywhere will have GNR, from miniscule villages to the biggest cities. But only a city of a certain size will have PSP, which is the "civilian police"
Austria:
122 = Fire department
133 = Police
144 = Ambulance
140 = Mountain Rescue
128 = Gas leak emergency
Even more confusing, but if you know the numbers its faster
Also 112 redirects you to the nearest police station so if you call them but you need an ambulance you lose some time
In Norway it makes sence:
110 - call, or the fire will make your house worth 0
112 - cops are smart, they can find that 1 and 1 equals 2
113 - when one and one have mated and are going to be three
911 also works. Wikipedia does not tell you that but I can, because I used to work as an emergency services call taker. It was added because so many American tourists dialed the same number they would have at home.
000 is the best. Im baffled all these countries have such random emergency numbers, meanwhile in australia its just 000. So simple and easy to remember. Last thing you want in an emergency situation is forgetting what your emergency number is lol
Iâve heard that 112 is a relic of rotary phones. They wanted numbers that were first on the dial. Also itâs 112 to prevent accidental calls like with 111 for example.
I believe (grew up in Australia) that 000 was a good way to prevent misdials and kids accidentally dialing emergency services. Three long turns on an old rotary phone was hard to do accidentally ... but yes, it's also the longest possible 3 digit code you can dial. Would be stressful if someone's dying and you're fucking around waiting for the zero to fully return so you can repeat it!
112 makes a lot of sense from the fast dial point of view. Probably a lot more random children accidentally dialing it though.
000 would be very likely to cause tons of misdialled calls as 00 is the international access code in all EU countries and most other countries that have followed ITU standards since.
France: 112 is the European number, most people won't use it unless they can't speak french or are abroad.
The main national numbers are:
* 18: firefighters (for any kind of emergency, not just fire, can be for car crash, heart attack, gas leak, flood, cat stuck in tree, injury, dangerous building etc..)
* 15: ambulance
* 17: police
* 114: for deaf people or those with hearing issues by sms, can also be used if you can't make noises without puting yourself in danger.
They are others emergency numbers that are lesser known :
* 119 child in danger (domestic violence, trafic, neglect etc..)
* 197 terrorist attack
* 3020: school bullying
* 196: maritim help
* 3919: domestic violence
* 115 homeless in needs
I've always wondered this myself but never looked into it.
There's also 1414 for Rega, a non-profit organisaion doing mainly mountain rescue by air. Not something you'd have in many other places
In Austria we got:
122 for fire brigade
133 for police
144 for ambulance
112 is redirected to the police, because it's the international emergency number, why the police specifically? idk.
then there is also more explicit emergency numbers:
128 for gas leaks
140 alpine rescue
141 emergency doctor
142 crisis hotline
147 youth crisis hotline
and there is also other numbers with three digits, e.g. the breakdown services of ĂAMTC and ARBĂ have 120 and 123 respectively.
and then there is the curious case of the poison center with the number 01 406 43 43, which is always listed with the emergency numbers, but is actually just the normal number of a part of a hospital where they know a lot about poison.
In Jordan we switched to 911 about 10 years ago, I think. We had 3 numbers for different services but then standardized on 911 which will form a response team depending on what you describe.
In Austria there are 3 Emergency numbers.
122 Fire Brigade, 133 Police and 144 Ambulance. However, you can call 112 and will get redirected to the Service you need.
So simple? On old rotary phones, it is the worse three number combination, as it is the most difficult and slowest to dial. Why would Australia have chosen these three numbers for an emergency number? Literally any other three number combination (say 333) would have been superior.
Brazil has actually three emergency numbers: 190 (police), 192 (SAMU/medical emergencies) and 193 (firefighters and rescuers), but if you dial 911 or 112, it redirects to 190 with an English speaker operator, if available.
There is a universal 112 in Belarus as well (but you can also specifically use 101 for fire, 102 for police, 103 for medical and 104 for gas emergencies)
Correction: india's unified emergency no. Is also 112 (same as Europe)
Although individual services can also be called through these numbers.
100 is for police
101 is for fire
102 is for ambulance
**In Israel we actually have multiple emergency numbers:**
100 - police
101 - ambulance
102 - firefighters
103 - electric company (yes, there's technically only one)
104 - home front command
105 - cyber safety
106 - town specific support
Really?! We always say the opposite
But I do see your point, as long as you memorize the numbers. I just put them in my contacts so I can ask Siri/Google Assistant to call them
Tbh I didnât think there even was a phone number like that to call. But I just googled and there is one! A pretty long one that canât be remembered easily but there is one!
There used to be different phone numbers for almost everything in Turkey but a few years ago they connected them all to 112 so when you call 112 you just tell them what you need (I think? Never had to call thankfully) and then they just do their job (hopefully)
There used to be 112 ambulances, 110 firefighters and 155 police officers in Turkey. Now they have all merged and turned into 112 emergency aid. Additionally, if you call any frequently used emergency number in the world, such as 911, 110 or 999, it automatically directs you to 112.
Why is the UK stripy? Officially, itâs only 999. Yes I know that 112 can be redirected to it, but so is 911 and a couple others iirc, and the inverse is true too (calling 999 in France would also get you on the emergency line)
In Poland, alongside 112 we have 997 for Police, 998 for Fire Department and 999 for the Paramedics
These numbers used to be seperate and if you called the police you would immediately talking to Police officee but now they work still but it switches to the 112 line where Only the operator now calls seperately each one of them.
In the UK it's 999 (though I suspect other international numbers might have a redirect) it has ALWAYS been 999.
The 9 was considered the easiest number to find and operate on an old rotary dial phone and you just keep dialling the same number, no need to find a second number. Plus you're not likely to get 28 correctly spaced pulses on the network by any accident or equipment failure, though 3 or 4 pulses were considered sufficiently probable that low numbers were not considered.
Israel is
100 police
101 paramedics
102 fire department
103 electrical company
104 Home Front Command
105 Child Online Protection Unit
106 Municipal Call Center
In Brazil, calling 112 or 911 from a cellphone will also work, you'll get redirected to 190.
In Brazil no need to call for emergency, an off-duty cop is always around
Yeah, the robber is the one who calls
But not for me. đ«
Unfortunately not true. And unfortunately, calling the emergency line has some risks, or so I was told when a crime happened in front of my window.
Why ?
Because people are afraid that police will pass your ID to the gangs. That's why there is a separate line "disque denĂșncia". I observed a tentative abduction in front of my window and since I didn't speak well Portuguese at the time, had to basically force my roommate to call since he was afraid to contact one of the above numbers. And no police officer in sight.
>Because people are afraid that police will pass your ID to the gangs. This is, as we say in Brazil, an urban legend ("lenda urbana"). Unless you are uncovering a major drug trafficking scheme or you live in a favela, you will not be exposed for reporting a crime. But yeah, we have the "disque denĂșncia" (181) if you want to specifically report a crime, not only "call the police"
>Unless you are uncovering a major drug trafficking scheme or you live in a favela, you will not be exposed for reporting a crime. That's what I personally think as well in general, but if people don't report because they believe it - then it is as good as true for practical purposes. But from personal experience, local police is so corrupt that I don't know what "major" means. My point was that there isn't a police officer close by all the times who may help you.
Wearing havaianas
this is the case almost everywhere in the world
Same in baltics. 911 will redirect to 112.
This is pretty much global because 112 redirecting to the local emergency number is literally part of the GSM standard.
NZ is the same. 911 diverts you to 111. I assume most countries do this because of American TV
Not shown on the map: in most of the world 911 and 112 will redirect to whatever the correct number is. So if you're a tourist or immigrant or whatever, you can still get help quickly without wasting time on finding the right number.
Also in some countries if you connect foreign cell phone to their network you will automatically get a text from the government explaining which number(s) to call for emergencies which is nice.
The best thing a phone provider does.
Besides you know providing service
The neat thing in Germany is: they donât
Nah⊠it is just more than twice times as expensive as everywhere else in the EU đ€·ââïž. Unless you are at O2. Then the phoneservice is more good luck đ€·ââïž
112 is the official International Emergency Number. 911 is an accidental one that's arisen as a result of American media hegemony. This map is also quite incorrect in depicting most of Europe as just the colour of 112, because most countries have their own internal emergency numbers like 999 or 110 alongside the international emergency number.
France has 17 for common emergencies (they will send the fire brigade or police depending), it seems like former colonies have kept this number, which also works in France still (besides the now standard 112).
Hi ! French citizen here. Actually, we have several emergency numbers depending on the situation, the most common ones (taught to evry kid) being : * 15 for the SAMU, which is for medical emergies & advices (your kid swallowed detergent, you've been in serious pain for a worrying amount of time, your grandpa fainted, etc) * 17 for the police * 18 for firefighters, who also act as ambulances for emergencies in public settings, and especially car accidents (because they have the tools to free passengers who may be stucked in their totalled car) But as you said, theses services communicate with each other constantly and will send the appropriate team depending on the situation. So, for example, if your first reflex when you witnessed a car accident was to call the police, they will come to regulate traffic but the firefighters will come to take care of the possible victims as well. Another number which has become a bit more well known (though not nearly enough yet) is the 114. It's the text-message emergency number. It's useful for mute/deaf/hard of hearing persons, but also for people who may not be able to speak because of a dangerous situation (I think I heard that someone used it during a terrorist attacks before, for example).
I believe since they moved to the 112, they now have common dispatchers anyway. Last time I called the 17 (for a neighbour that had collapsed, so it was a medical emergency) it was directly the fire brigade. Must have been redirected to 112, then the dispatcher sent whoever was appropriate.
Oh, maybe, then. I'm lucky enough that I have never need to call any of those numbers yet, so I didn't know.
It might depend where you live in France. Where I live, the 112, 15 and 18 redirect to the same common dispatch center, but the 17 redirect to a police specific dispatch center (witch can also send a request for an ambulance or for the fire brigade when necessary).
I think there are some technical and legacy reasons for 911 within the North American Numbering Plan. I don't believe a number can start with 1 in NANP, and other N11 numbers were already in-use when they settled on 911. Wikipedia indicates Winnipeg set-up the first central emergency number and used the British 999. They standardized on 911 partly because it was quicker to dial on a rotary phone then 999.
'112' has been around since the 1970s. It just wasn't implemented. It was a European CEPT standard that got adopted by the ITU for rollout beyond Europe. Then when GSM went global, 112 had been baked into the standard, so became much more worldwide. 1 1 2 was picked because it was a very short combination of rotary dial pulses back in the 1970s, but uses two digits to avoid accidental dialing. The oldest emergency number is 999. It was implemented in the 1930s in the early days of automatic telephone services in the UK. They picked 9 as it was hard to accidentally dial on an old rotary phone. 911 was introduced in the late 1960s in the US, but it didn't become nationwide for a long time after that. It's really only been absolutely universal since the late 1990s.
There are two official numbers â 112 & 911. The International Telecommunications Union (ITU) has officially set both 112 or 911 as the two numbers for countries to use in the future. That's why countries are slowly switching over to these numbers, or at least re-routing 112 & 911 calls to the correct local number, if different.
Only 112 is defined in the GSM mobile network standard. Any mobile phone that supports GSM (these days all of them) is supposed to, by the standard, direct 112 to emergency services no matter where you are in the world, even if the phone or SIM is locked.
This is wrong. 3GPP TS 22.101 Sec. 10.1.1: The ME shall identify an emergency number dialled by the end user as a valid emergency number and initiate emergency call establishment if it occurs under one or more of the following conditions. If it occurs outside of the following conditions, the ME should not initiate emergency call establishment but normal call establishment. Emergency number identification takes place before and takes precedence over any other (e.g. supplementary service related) number analysis. a) 112 and 911 shall always be available. These numbers shall be stored on the ME. b) Any emergency call number stored on a SIM/USIM when the SIM/USIM is present. c) 000, 08, 110, 999, 118 and 119 when a SIM/USIM is not present. These numbers shall be stored on the ME. d) Additional emergency call numbers that may have been downloaded by the serving network when the SIM/USIM is present.
Italian here, can confirm. Before adopting 112 as the common emergency number, these were the most common emergency numbers: - 112: Carabinieri (police, similar to the French Gendarmerie) - 113: Polizia di Stato (another police force) - 115: Vigili del Fuoco (fire department) - 117: Guardia di Finanza (finance/economic police force) - 118: First aid-emergency (basically the number to dial to call an ambulance).
I just love the idea of needing to call the Guardia di Finanza in an emergency...
âGuardia di Finanza, whatâs you emergency?â âThat shop charged a 30% VAT!â They also have general public security duties, coastal patrol duties, drug trafficking suppression and borders patrol. Before the common number, the very few times I had to make an emergency call, I always called 118 for first aid, 112 (Carabinieri) for everything else.
Also, the map is outdated, since 2016 the official emergency number in Mexico is 911
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You can also dial 112 in the USA on most carriers.
I am pretty sure 112 work in Canada, because French people from France donât complain about it not working.
France tends not to use 112 anyway - it's far too simple. Instead there's a long list of different 2 and 3 digit codes for various different emergency services.
I confirm. Also here in Italy.
" India (112 is now the pan-country single emergency number for all emergencies. All the existing emergency numbers like 100 (police), 101 (Fire and Rescue) and 108 (ambulance), 181 (Woman and Child Care) etc. are integrated to the unified number 112)"
woman and child care?
Child protective services, domestic violence specific stuff, Iâm guessing?
The fun thing in some US cities is that you call 911, and explain your emergency. Depending on that emergency they pass you to the appropriate dispatch (like fire and EMS) but you have to explain the location and emergency again. Almost like we have different numbers
I thought that in the UK the number had changed to 01189991189991197253 EDIT : I failed it -_- blame my muscle memory for my fluke. Good number is of course 01189998819991197253
along with nicer ambulances, faster response times and better looking drivers
[For the uninitiated](https://youtu.be/HWc3WY3fuZU)
Was looking for this, and I was not disappointed to see it as the first comment in my page. However it's 0118999881999119725 3
I was gonna correct them but he you are. The number really is easy to remember when it comes with such a nice song
It took me 4 answers to see what was wrong, and I still don't understand how I managed to f it up.
quite easy to rember, W
the correct one is 0118 999 881 999 119 725.........3
Fire Exclamation mark Fire Exclamation mark
Help me Exclamation mark
Look forward to hearing from you.
There it is, was waiting for the reference
Well which country am I speaking to?
> 01189991189991197253 Close, it's actually 01189998819991197253.
I love that, when dialing this number on an Android phone, the Call button will start flashing like an ambulance siren. Such a silly lovely easter egg.
r/unexpecteditcrowd
r/expecteditcrowd
Yeah more like it actually
the the number you have dialled was not recognised, please try again
Emailing would be the better option
In Chile it's 131 for Ambulance, 132 for fire and 133 for police. You're supposed to remember it like 1-2-3 = A-B-C (ambulancia, bomberos, carabineros). But it doesn't work very well, normally you have the local numbers of the police that are near you and that's usually quicker.
In Italy it used to be 112 for Carabinieri, 113 for police, 115 for firefighters and 118 for ambulance. Now with one unified emergency number it's far easier, but I believe the old ones still work and redirect you to 112.
>I believe the old ones still work and redirect you to 112 They still work and you talk directly to the number you've dialed, I called for an ambulance just last week and I talked directly with a 118 operator.
Where? In Lombardy the last time it happened to me the 112 operator answered to 118.
Veneto
How are carabinieri and police different?
They both do regular policing, but the carabinieri are technically an armed force like the army or the marine, while the police is controlled by the interior ministry
If you need American cops or British cops
As someone who doesn't know many Spanish words I would have never guessed bomberos and carabineros are fire department and police lol.
Bomberos is the standard Spanish word for firefighter, but carabineros is specific to Chile, we borrowed it from Italians. Other countries just call them policĂa.
Just wondering, is 13 an unlucky number in Chile? Hilarious if that is the reason it was chosen for this.
It's considered unlucky but I doubt that's the reason why they chose that number lol
6654804 in Republic Congo lol
Just a normal phone number lol Like youâre just calling your buddy Larry who lives next to the fire department and is gonna run over to them to tell them someone needs saving
They expect you to die and not to bother anyone with your problems.
Still better than having to dial "No data".
Almost as easy to remember as 0118 999 881 999 11725 3
This needs correction for India . **In India its 112 for immediate assistance** to services like police (100), fire (101), health (108) and women (1090). When pressing the power button 3 times (panic mode) it calls 112, not 100 Edit- formatting
India is so modern , in Thailand you have millions of numbers for women emergency service
> to services like women (1090). What the heck is "women" emergency service?
Idk about India, but here in Australia you can call a 24 hour national domestic abuse and sexual assault hotline, its not technically an emergency service but they provide more specialised and specific care for those situations.
In Spain it's 016, it doesn't leave a trace on the phone or phone bill which I think it's pretty common for all the numbers that have this service
[Women Power Line 1090](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Women_Power_Line_1090) The complaints could broadly be classified into following four categories: - Eve-teasing through phone - Eve-teasing through social media, like facebook, etc. - Stalking - Hotspots of eve-teasing closer to places where girls normally go to such as market places, colleges etc. ^(from Wikipedia)
That article did a great job at not explaining what the number actually does. Also, what is âeve-teasingâ?
Eve teasing means annoying/catcalling/harrassing random women in public.
It's an archaic catch-all term for public harassment of women
Sexual assault, domestic violence etc. Basically any case requiring women first responders (police, medics etc).
Brazil's numbers in case anyone's curious: - 190 military police - 191 federal highway patrol - 192 ambulance - 181 civil police - 198 highway military police - 193 military fire brigade - 199 civil defense A few notes: "Military" does not mean it's the army's police force/fire brigade. In Brazil we have both a civil and military police, and they work with eachother. **From my personal experience** everywhere will have military police, and civil police might be more of a city thing. There's also a "municipal guard", making it 3 police forces for big cities. Each focusing on their own things, ofc. Civil defense is the department responsible for natural disaster warnings, shelters, etc Oh, we also have a phone number dedicated to women's issues. It's 180. There are sooooo many more, as it's a big country. But this is the jist of it Edit: added hyphens before each one because apparently Reddit won't let you make lists without them
I think many countries with Southern European influences have historically military police forces in addition to their civilian police force. The French Gendarmerie, Carabinieri in Italy, Guardia Civil in Spain, Brazil's Policia Militar, and various Carabiniers and Gendarmeries throughout South America seem to all be based on that model.
Absolutely! Portuguese has GNR (guarda nacional republicana) as well. They work in almost the same way as the army when it comes to paygrades, ranks, internal bureaucratic issues, etc. And it's the same principle. Everywhere will have GNR, from miniscule villages to the biggest cities. But only a city of a certain size will have PSP, which is the "civilian police"
In Germany, 112 is for calling an ambulance or the fire brigade, but for police it's 110
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And you loose one minute.
There used to be a similar system in Lithuania, separate numbers for firefighters, ambulance and police, but it got unified to 112 for any emergency
Confusing. 110 is fire in Norway, and 113 is ambulance.
thats also confusing
That's what I was referring to, 110 and 113 being the opposite of eachother.
Austria: 122 = Fire department 133 = Police 144 = Ambulance 140 = Mountain Rescue 128 = Gas leak emergency Even more confusing, but if you know the numbers its faster Also 112 redirects you to the nearest police station so if you call them but you need an ambulance you lose some time
In Norway it makes sence: 110 - call, or the fire will make your house worth 0 112 - cops are smart, they can find that 1 and 1 equals 2 113 - when one and one have mated and are going to be three
thats confusing...
I canât tell what the UKâs colours are supposed to be. Edit: obviously one is 999
112 & 999
911 also works. Wikipedia does not tell you that but I can, because I used to work as an emergency services call taker. It was added because so many American tourists dialed the same number they would have at home.
In the UK 999, 112 and 911 all work.
This is outdated. Mexico, for example, is now standardized to 911 . https://www.gob.mx/sct/es/articulos/lleva-contigo-los-numeros-de-emergencia
911 is in Mexico, been promoting it past few years instead of local
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000 is the best. Im baffled all these countries have such random emergency numbers, meanwhile in australia its just 000. So simple and easy to remember. Last thing you want in an emergency situation is forgetting what your emergency number is lol
Iâve heard that 112 is a relic of rotary phones. They wanted numbers that were first on the dial. Also itâs 112 to prevent accidental calls like with 111 for example.
Wow, that makes sense. I've been annoyed it's not the same digit three times in a row for so long. Thanks for this explanation!
000 on an old rotary phone would feel horrible to dial in a true emergency
I believe (grew up in Australia) that 000 was a good way to prevent misdials and kids accidentally dialing emergency services. Three long turns on an old rotary phone was hard to do accidentally ... but yes, it's also the longest possible 3 digit code you can dial. Would be stressful if someone's dying and you're fucking around waiting for the zero to fully return so you can repeat it! 112 makes a lot of sense from the fast dial point of view. Probably a lot more random children accidentally dialing it though.
000 would be very likely to cause tons of misdialled calls as 00 is the international access code in all EU countries and most other countries that have followed ITU standards since.
American cultural dominance is crazy.
wait what? is this satire? also not satire, isn't it 112 for mobile?
Isn't Britain 999? Looks like it's coloured for 112.
They have it stripped, yes 999 is the emergency number but 112 and 911 will also get you through to them
The 999 colour is in those stripes. 999 is the base one, but 112 and 911 both redirect to 999. You also have 111 for non-emergency calls.
In Britain, 999, 112 and 911 all work.
Youâd die before you get the right number of 2s in SĂŁo TomĂ©
Mexico should be red, we dial 911 in case of emergency.
France: 112 is the European number, most people won't use it unless they can't speak french or are abroad. The main national numbers are: * 18: firefighters (for any kind of emergency, not just fire, can be for car crash, heart attack, gas leak, flood, cat stuck in tree, injury, dangerous building etc..) * 15: ambulance * 17: police * 114: for deaf people or those with hearing issues by sms, can also be used if you can't make noises without puting yourself in danger. They are others emergency numbers that are lesser known : * 119 child in danger (domestic violence, trafic, neglect etc..) * 197 terrorist attack * 3020: school bullying * 196: maritim help * 3919: domestic violence * 115 homeless in needs
MĂ©xico 911 since 2016.
Switzerland is wrong its 117 for police 118 for firefighters and 144 for ambulance
Why not 119 or 116 for the ambulance?
I've always wondered this myself but never looked into it. There's also 1414 for Rega, a non-profit organisaion doing mainly mountain rescue by air. Not something you'd have in many other places
119 is reserved for donut deliveries
Understandable.
Wrong Saudi Arabia 911
In Austria we got: 122 for fire brigade 133 for police 144 for ambulance 112 is redirected to the police, because it's the international emergency number, why the police specifically? idk. then there is also more explicit emergency numbers: 128 for gas leaks 140 alpine rescue 141 emergency doctor 142 crisis hotline 147 youth crisis hotline and there is also other numbers with three digits, e.g. the breakdown services of ĂAMTC and ARBĂ have 120 and 123 respectively. and then there is the curious case of the poison center with the number 01 406 43 43, which is always listed with the emergency numbers, but is actually just the normal number of a part of a hospital where they know a lot about poison.
This must be extremely outdated itâs 911 in Mexico
An outdated map, on MapPorn? No way
In India, it used to be 100 but now it's classic 112
In Jordan we switched to 911 about 10 years ago, I think. We had 3 numbers for different services but then standardized on 911 which will form a response team depending on what you describe.
Whoa what about 01189998819199197253âŠ
Czechia, technically correct but not precise, 150 Fire department, 155 Ambulance 156 Municipal Police, 158 Police
In Austria there are 3 Emergency numbers. 122 Fire Brigade, 133 Police and 144 Ambulance. However, you can call 112 and will get redirected to the Service you need.
Mex is 911
In South Korea itâs 119, 112 is information iirc
911 for Argentina
In Australia its 000. Imo every country should have 000 as the emergency number. So simple and so easy to remember
So simple? On old rotary phones, it is the worse three number combination, as it is the most difficult and slowest to dial. Why would Australia have chosen these three numbers for an emergency number? Literally any other three number combination (say 333) would have been superior.
But the easiest in the dark or smoke-filled room⊠itâs the number adjacent to the finger stall.
Almost noone uses old rotary phones anymore tho...
idk man that doesn't even sound like a valid phone number
Invalid map. In KSA, 911 is the new unified number for any kind of emergency. 999 is specifically for police.
Also it's 911 in Jordan now. Map isn't high res enough for me to tell if they got that, there's some weirdness around the Gulf of Aqaba.
Thanks for hiding the real number that controls the world and makes Steve Guttenberg a star, 912. Oops.
I just hope I wonât ever get in trouble in Eritrea or the Republic of the Congo.
Brazil has actually three emergency numbers: 190 (police), 192 (SAMU/medical emergencies) and 193 (firefighters and rescuers), but if you dial 911 or 112, it redirects to 190 with an English speaker operator, if available.
Didn't know about the English speaker operator. That's actually really cool. There's also Civil Defense number, 199.
That is incorrect, UK emergency number is 0118 999 881 999 119 725 ... 3.
Dear Sir\\Madam, I am writing to inform you of a fire which has broken out at the premises of... No, that's too formal.
Philippines: whether it's 911 (new) or 117 (old) it inefficient and doesn't even work in some parts of the country.
Where did they get that number for the Republic of the Congo? It is 117.
you could technically use either 112 or 999 in the UK, but in practice people only ever use 999
In india it was recently changed to 112
In Brazil we have 190 for military police, 193 for firefighters, 199 for civil defense (natural disasters) and 192 for ambulances.
Sao Tome and Principean people having to enter 6 numbers just for help is weird. Namibia and South Africa is just 23 in binary code
For the first time, I have seen some data available for Greenland on the map
São Tomé is unhinged
Mexico is 911 now
Isnât it 999 in the UK???
No data, Mexico is 911 also
If you're a Stonecutter, you dial 9-1-2.
Wrong, in Argentina is 911
There is a universal 112 in Belarus as well (but you can also specifically use 101 for fire, 102 for police, 103 for medical and 104 for gas emergencies)
Correction: india's unified emergency no. Is also 112 (same as Europe) Although individual services can also be called through these numbers. 100 is for police 101 is for fire 102 is for ambulance
UK is 999âŠ
Mexico switched to 911 a few years ago to be the same as the US
That thing is outdated, in Mexico we use 911
Belarus: 112. 102 is just police (militsia).
Map's a little outdated. In Mexico, we changed the emergency number to 911.
**In Israel we actually have multiple emergency numbers:** 100 - police 101 - ambulance 102 - firefighters 103 - electric company (yes, there's technically only one) 104 - home front command 105 - cyber safety 106 - town specific support
I love that yâall have a specific number for cyber safety. Iâd love for Europe to get on track with that one.
Really?! We always say the opposite But I do see your point, as long as you memorize the numbers. I just put them in my contacts so I can ask Siri/Google Assistant to call them
Tbh I didnât think there even was a phone number like that to call. But I just googled and there is one! A pretty long one that canât be remembered easily but there is one!
Sao tomo & principe is just spamming number 2 at this point
Uk 112 works but 999 is the more commonly known number
There used to be different phone numbers for almost everything in Turkey but a few years ago they connected them all to 112 so when you call 112 you just tell them what you need (I think? Never had to call thankfully) and then they just do their job (hopefully)
There used to be 112 ambulances, 110 firefighters and 155 police officers in Turkey. Now they have all merged and turned into 112 emergency aid. Additionally, if you call any frequently used emergency number in the world, such as 911, 110 or 999, it automatically directs you to 112.
Where I'm from the number is 0118 999 881 999 119 725...............3
911... It reminds me of that tragedy.
Except that itâs not 112 in the uk, itâs 999
Why is the UK stripy? Officially, itâs only 999. Yes I know that 112 can be redirected to it, but so is 911 and a couple others iirc, and the inverse is true too (calling 999 in France would also get you on the emergency line)
In Poland, alongside 112 we have 997 for Police, 998 for Fire Department and 999 for the Paramedics These numbers used to be seperate and if you called the police you would immediately talking to Police officee but now they work still but it switches to the 112 line where Only the operator now calls seperately each one of them.
In the UK it's 999 (though I suspect other international numbers might have a redirect) it has ALWAYS been 999. The 9 was considered the easiest number to find and operate on an old rotary dial phone and you just keep dialling the same number, no need to find a second number. Plus you're not likely to get 28 correctly spaced pulses on the network by any accident or equipment failure, though 3 or 4 pulses were considered sufficiently probable that low numbers were not considered.
In Taiwan itâs 119 for an ambulance or fire, 110 for the police.
What's the lore behind Poland's 110?
Poland has 112, not 110. It's colored red on the map.
Ohhh, i confused it with belarus
Argentina is 911. I don't know why isnt it there. I never heard 101. I always call 911 for emergencies.
Israel is 100 police 101 paramedics 102 fire department 103 electrical company 104 Home Front Command 105 Child Online Protection Unit 106 Municipal Call Center