ISLAMABAD: Islamabad capital police emergency helpline \u201cPucar-15\u201d received 27,438 phone calls during the last week and provided immediate assistance on various help seeking calls including police, fire brigade, ambulance and other services, a police public relations officer said. He said that 27,438 calls were received at emergency helpline \u201cPucar-15\u201d out of which 24,187 calls were hoax and irrelevant to police which make 88% of all calls. The Inspector General of Police Islamabad (IGP) Dr. Akbar Nasir Khan took notice of hoax calls on the police emergency helpline and directed the CPO Safe City to take stern legal actions against those involved in such activities. \u201cIf anyone tries to waste the time of the police by making fake calls or passing derogatory remarks to the personnel will be dealt with iron hands,\u201d he maintained. CPO Safe City urged the masses to approach police only in emergency situations as some genuine cases needing police attention may be neglected because of the time consumed by hoax calls. DNA<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
ISLAMABAD: Islamabad capital police emergency helpline \u201cPucar-15\u201d received 27,438 phone calls during the last week and provided immediate assistance on various help seeking calls including police, fire brigade, ambulance and other services, a police public relations officer said. He said that 27,438 calls were received at emergency helpline \u201cPucar-15\u201d out of which 24,187 calls were […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-327681","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-national"},"yoast_head":"\n