More than 1.2 million emergency calls to the police last year

The Berlin Police receive 3,520 emergency calls per day. That's 147 per hour, or 2.5 per minute. But not all of them are truly necessary.

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The Berlin Police received more than 1.2 million emergency calls via the 110 number last year.

To be exact, there were 1,279,030 such calls. The police announced this on the day of the emergency call, which, because of the number, falls on October 1 (1.10.).

230,535 of the calls were not genuine emergency calls, but prank calls, fake calls or calls from confused individuals. On average, 2,571 police responses were triggered each day. Many of these were urgent, so in 223,380 cases, police officers responded with flashing lights and sirens to a crime scene, an accident site or an emergency.