An interesting tale of international cooperation as 911 emergency dispatch staff in Illinois work with Scott Air Force Base and the Korean National Police to help a woman who’d been battered by her husband near Yongsan Garrison. (HT to reader)
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I remember a few years ago, and it was pretty long ago so the memories are fuzzy, but….a person in some place like Australia in a chat room on the internet became worried about the state of mind of one of the chatters and called the police in the US to get over for a suicide watch….and as I remember it…..the guy was in fact suicidal and said it probably saved his life….
As VOIP and cellphone roamings become more commonplace, someone needs to come up with efficient system of different emergency response centers to hand these calls off to one another. If I were a telecomm company, I’d seriously look into this inter-jurisdiction emergency call handing over system thingy business… you could be selling nice expensive equipments to telecommuncation-intensive governments (i.e. rich countries).
Either that, or we can just all outsource the 911 response business to India.