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Originally Posted by WhiteTiger
As I've mentioned before, the main reason they took it off is that when they were testing new looks, 80% of the respondents couldn't figure out what a phone number that wasn't 911 would be doing on a police car, so CPS decided to save themselves the money that putting a 'confusing' phone number was costing them.
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I don't doubt that's what you were told the reasoning was, but it still beggars belief that 80% of people surveyed are so...
bafflingly stupid. To your following point:
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Originally Posted by WhiteTiger
Police aren't the only dept that have trouble with folks calling 911 for non-emerg services as well. Fire and EMS see a lot of it, too. Though their non-emerg numbers are even harder to find. Did you know that the Calgary Fire Dept has a non-emerg number? Try and find it.
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I have absolutely no idea what the fire dept. and EMS's non-emergency numbers are (although I'm hard-pressed to think of any reason I'd ever call for either of those services unless it was an emergency), largely because they never advertised them in any way whatsoever. Whereas the only reason I know the police non-emergency number is because it was on the side of every single vehicle they had!