A GIRL of 13 who made hoax 999 calls has apologised to a call handling supervisor at the Crime and Communications Centre in Devizes.
Police at the Wiltshire force's headquarters received emergency calls from two telephone kiosks on November 16 and 23 last year. Each time the caller claimed that a fight was in progress.
When officers arrived at the given locations – Church Street and Phelps Parade – nobody was around.
After the Church Street hoax call, police launched a witness appeal by putting up CCTV images on the Calne Police Facebook page. It was then that the girl admitted what she had done.
She confessed making both calls when questioned at Calne Police station in the presence of her mother.
Officers resolved the case with a Local Resolution, ordering the girl to write a full A4 letter of apology and to read it to a 999 call handler at the communications centre.
The teenager was told of impact her actions had on police, when the supervisor showed her round and explained the dangers of making hoax emergency calls.
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