Man calls Sharjah 999 for opinion on poem

A man called Sharjah Police emergency number 999 late night to ask them what they think of a poem he had just written, a senior police officer said.
 
A Western woman residing in the emirate also phoned police to seek their help in capturing her parrot after it fled its cage to the neighbouring apartment, said Lt Colonel Jassim bin Haddah, Director, Police Operations in the emirate.
 
“We receive many bizarre calls in our daily operations…we just tell them it is not within our authorization and try to help reach the authorised parties,” he said, quoted by the semi-official Arabic language daily ‘Al Ittihad’.
 
“One of those calls was from a man who phoned our emergency operations late night to ask our staff members why they think of a poem he has just written…a Western woman called us to seek help in capturing her parrot after it fled its cage to the neighboring apartment…we helped her reach the authorized section in the municipality.”
 
Haddah said the emergency section received more than 280,000 calls from the public in the first half of 2015, including around 181,000 traffic accident reports.
He said the police department has equipped the emergency unit with new staff who can speak Urdu, Russian, Chinese and other languages to attend to calls from various nationalities in the emirate.
 

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