Delhi Police gets 18 hoax calls a day

NEW DELHI: Delhi Police receives 18 hoax calls a day.
A total of 6,370 bogus calls were made to the Police Control Room (PCR) last year, keeping the sleuths on their toes.
However, the Delhi Police's crime data for 2007 says there was a decline of 27 per cent (8,771 bogus calls in 2006) in the number of such calls.
"Any call to the PCR cannot be ignored like that and someone has to rush to the spot.Some did it for fun, others to create trouble for their neighbours or so," a senior police official said.
A whopping 726 calls complaining about use of loud speakers in odd hours during marriages and other functions were found bogus.
Last year, a whopping 11,55,247 calls were made to the PCR as against 9,95,691 in 2006. On an average, 3,310 calls were made on a day which was an increase of 457 from 2006.
However, the various helplines registered a decline of about 5,000 calls this year compared to 2006. While there were 15,765 calls to various helplines, this year there were only 10,449 calls.
More tourists relied on the helpline this year (1,56,709 calls) as against the previous year (1,20,106).
The Delhi Police Control Room also received calls from the National Capital Region, which accounted to 7,842. Majority of the calls were from Ghaziabad (2,677) followed by Gurgaon (2,159), Noida (1,481) and Faridabad (1,163).
The 500 PCR vans deployed across the city were also instrumental in rushing 45,649 people injured in accidents, including road accidents, to hospital last year. In 2006, the figure was 41,253.