ADULTS in confinement — jails, prisons, and other facilities — have been outed by Assistant Commissioner of Police Gary Francis for bombarding the 24-hour police emergency communication centre/119 with calls up to 200 times daily for no good reason.

Making the disclosure on the most recent episode of the Jamaica Constabulary’s FORCE4GOOD podcast, Francis, who is the commanding officer in charge of the entity, said operators employed to the hub, which is the focal point of coordination, communication and emergency response within the force, are kept busy daily sifting those non-emergency calls from real life and death alerts.

“The truth is that at on average 119 receives an average of 5,000 calls daily. Of those calls, about 65 per cent are prank calls or crank calls that have nothing to do with policing. Another 15 per cent or so may be police-related but not an emergency. And maybe about 20 per cent of those calls are emergency related,” Francis disclosed.