Apple Introduced Emergency Calls through satellites on the iPhone 14

Emergency feature for satellites on the iPhone 14. This year, Apple focused on a variety of brand-new, cutting-edge safety measures that it hopes you’ll never need when it unveiled the iPhone 14 line-up. The most important of these security-conscious features … Continue reading Apple Introduced Emergency Calls through satellites on the iPhone 14

Emergency Services News Roundup

Emergency Services News Source: Emergency Service News Blog Man Jailed After Setting Fire To Ex-Army Devon & Cornwall Police Officer by John Johnson A man who doused two police officers in petrol before setting one of them on fire in Newquay has been jailed for ten-and-a-half years. Blagovest Hadjigueorguiev left army veteran PC Darral Mares with severe burns to his legs and hand after he was engulfed in flames during the horrific incident in September. PC Mares, who was saved from further serious injury by the quick actions of his colleague, PC Alan Lenton, is still continuing on his long road … Continue reading Emergency Services News Roundup

75 years of the 999 Emergency Number

Seventy five years ago this weekend the first ever emergency number system anywhere in the world came into being in London with the introduction of the 999 call – marking a sea-change in the way the public communicated with the Metropolitan Police. The MPS will be marking the anniversary by launching its first ever live twitter feed from one of its three central communications complexes (CCC) where ‘first contact’ operators answer tens of thousands of emergency calls every week. For twelve hours on Friday 29 June, the public will be able to get an understanding into the huge variety of … Continue reading 75 years of the 999 Emergency Number