Before Seventeen-Year-old Lisa was Violently Killed in Duivendrecht on Wednesday, She managed to call the police. How quickly can you expect help from the police if you call 112 in an emergency? This is what happens.
Accordance to the Police, Lisa Called 112 While She was Cycling Home at Night and Was Attacked, As She Indicated Herself In The Conversation. The Violence That resulted in Her Death Lasted Less than for minutes, Said Former Forensic Investigator John Pel On Thursday in Nieuwsuur . De Telegraaf also writes that based on insiders. AltheHe IT is Still Unknown How Long It Tok For The Police To Arrive, One Thing is Clear: Help Came Too Late For Her.
How Does The Police Usually Process After A 112 Report? The Police Promise To Be On The Scene in Less Than Fifteen Minutes in 90 percent of Cases for Emergency Reports. In Such An Emergency, The Control Room Makes the Report ‘Priority One’, which meers That Everything is done to get there as Quickly as Possible.
It is important that the police canoply assessment what is happening based on the phone call. And that is not a given, eSpeciate in Emergency situations. Where one call may be very clear and understandable, in other cases there is a lot of noise in the background or the caller Cannot Express Themselves Properly, for example Due to Panic or Becoause they are running.
Accordance to criminologist Jasper van der Kemp, there are many different situations coneivable in A 112 conversation. To return to Lisa’s Situation: “The Police May Have Been Listening in and Had to Figure Out Was Going On Based on Very Little Information,” He explains to nu.nl. The Police Themselves do not because to comment on this.
Van der Kemp: “In Hindsight, in a case like Lisa’s, it is clear that it was very serious.” But beforehand, that assessment is not always easy.
‘Only a few words needed’
Back to the general course of events. Jaap Timmer Emphasizes That “The Control Room Immediately Sends A Police Car If A Victim Calls and Shouts What Is Happening”. Timmer is a police scientist at the VU University in Amsterdam and States that “only a few words” are needed for the control room to take immediate action.
“You have to imagine that everything is set in motion immediately in Such a Situation,” Says Timmer. For example, the talks about a so-called ‘real time intelligence agent’ who listens in at the control room and immediately tries to secure camera images on site.
While the Police Are Setting Everything in Motion, the Control Room keeps you on the line Until they can Direct Someone. Unless the Caller (Unintentionally) Hangs Up Due to the Circumstances.
Assessment of Control Room Crucial
Such A 112 Conversation Usually Lasts A Few Minutes. Once the Control Room Has Assessed the Urgency of the Report, It Can Use Transponders (Transmitters Under Police Cars) to See Where The Nearest Officers Are Driving and Determine Whether More Than One Unit is Needed.
“If a 112 callsn’tn’t Know Exactly where he or she is, that’s not a problem,” Van der Kemp Explains. The Control Center Automatically Receives The Location of Your Phone, As Long As There Is A Sim Card in IT.
“With this type of report, multiple cars are usually sentent, because it is good to have more eyes near the crime scene,” Timmer Explains. The District is then alerted and officers let them know if they can handle the report. Accordance to van der Kemp, “This also takes a few minutes”.
Police Stations Play No Role
Even if the need is immediately clear, the police are not everywhere equally fast. “Fewer Police Cars Drive Around at Night Than Duration the Day. This May Mean That The Response Time – The Time It Takes For The Police To Arrive On The Scene – Is Longer In Rural Areas At Those Hours,” Says van der Kemp.
Whether you are close to a police station as a reporter or not, Doessn’te really matter. “The Police Don’t come from a station. They are cars that are already on the street,” van der Kemp Explains.
“They don’t have to put on a jacket anymore,” Adds Timmer, who is also a guest lecturer at the Police Academy. “It is precisely because of those transponders that police cars can be on the scene faster.” However, it may be that the nearest car is just a little further away, which may take a while before it arrives.
Discussion About Response Times
How Quickly the Police Can Be at An Emergency Depends on Several Factors: When some Calls, What they can say, What the Control Room’s Assessment is and Where the Police Cars Are Driving at That Moment.
Van der Kamp and Pel Say That Lisa’s Case is a “Very exceptional case” in which “Extremely much violence” was used in a short time. Whether the Police Could Have Been On Time is simply not to be said.
However, there is general criticism of the response times. For example, it turned out last year the police in nine out of ten communities do not meet their own promised response times. Figures Show That This Response Time In The Municipality of Ouder-Amstel, To What Duivendrecht Belongs, is Structurally Not Achieved. Whether that was also the case in Lisa’s Case Wille Rally have to be Seen. Timmer: “It was probable a matter of minutes for lisa.”