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Do you we have a "silent solution" if you ring 999 and can't talk?

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  • #32
    Supercell
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 15,762 ✭✭✭✭Supercell


    When I did my first aid course the teacher told us that because of the data protection act, unless the caller states their location somehow, the emergency services have no access to location information from the phone companies, so you are screwed if you cannot. If its true, hope you can text someone quietly!
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  • #33
    Del2005
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 19,089 ✭✭✭✭Del2005


    Chuchote wrote: »
    I assume they can track a mobile call easily to its location. Touching 55 (which doesn't make a sound if your phone is mute, unlike tapping the screen) is a signal for them to keep the line open; it's only for use when you are too afraid to talk, for instance when you're trapped in a hiding place while some lunatic roams around looking for you with a machete or the marble rolling pin.

    They need to contact the operator to see what cell tower you are on, neither fast or accurate. There is a way that they can text you to get your location if you don't know where you are but no idea if they will do that for a silent call.



    https://ec.europa.eu/digital-single-market/en/112-united-kingdom


  • #34
    Del2005
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 19,089 ✭✭✭✭Del2005


    It looks like Android is going to be able to text your exact location when you dial 112 or 999 in a few weeks.


    http://www.thejournal.ie/mobile-gps-text-emergency-services-3440742-Jun2017/


  • #35
    Widdershins
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 10,633 ✭✭✭✭Widdershins


    Del2005 wrote: »
    It looks like Android is going to be able to text your exact location when you dial 112 or 999 in a few weeks.


    http://www.thejournal.ie/mobile-gps-text-emergency-services-3440742-Jun2017/

    That's great news :)


  • #36
    Stigura
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,660 ✭✭✭Stigura


    Widdershins wrote: »
    That's great news :)

    No it's not! I'm in the cupboard under the stairs. They're out there, searching for me. I don't think I'm gonna last two weeks in here :(


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  • #37
    Pac1Man
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,407 ✭✭✭Pac1Man


    I can throw my voice. I'd throw it up into the attic.

    The guy runs up into the attic and I come behind him and close the hatch. I then proceed to play a loop of Kate Bush's most famous hits which I pipe into the attic from the hotpress.

    3-4 hours later I open the hatch and the previously dangerous intruder has now become a meek damp squib of a man.

    We hug, I open the front door, slap him on the arse and send him on his way.

    The neighbours just see the arse slap and presume I'm a male prostitute with a passion for balaclavas.

    I'm not. I'm a Kate Bush rehabilitation aficionado.


  • #38
    Rushden
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 300 ✭✭Rushden


    The large majority of the population really have no idea of the level of technology our emergency services are using, stone age stuff and are decades behind our top level EU neighbours . Everything from uniform to computers to vehicles , terrible stuff.


  • #39
    bear1
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 12,906 ✭✭✭✭bear1


    If you've a Samsung smartphone then it can also send out an emergency text to a chosen contact.
    It sends a message with your location, a picture and a video.
    Think you hold the volume and central key to do it.


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