Lusanda Bill
21 February 2011
The North West has reported that prank emergency calls have cost the province R5.5 million.
The department last year received 1 850 prank calls.
Spokesperson Tebogo Lekgethwane said “the huge volume of prank calls means that the emergency personnel who should be attending accident scenes or preparing themselves for genuine incidents, are often tied up with wicked false alarms”.
The most district that had the most prank calls was Ngaka Modiri Molema district
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