A man from Southsea who called 999 38 times for no good reason has been given a suspended sentence of 6 weeks imprisonment.
On numerous calls, 50-year-old Neil McAvery of Omega Street mentioned that he “wanted to waste police time.”
He appeared at Portsmouth Magistrates Court, where he pleaded guilty.
McAvery was also handed a Criminal Behaviour Order, which will last for the next two years and requires him not to make any further nuisance calls to the emergency services and to only call the emergency services when there is a genuine emergency.
The conviction was the result of a thorough investigation over several months which included reviewing many hours of 999 recordings.
Call 999 only in a real genuine emergency. Calling when not an emergency, or to ‘waste police time’ can result in blocking the 999 system, which may prevent other members of the public who genuinely have an emergency from getting through. In the worst case scenario, this could cost lives.
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