Overview
- Rotterdam-Rijnmond officials say a fault in the national emergency dispatch system is disrupting 112 across the country.
- Dispatch centers are using backup systems that allow help to be sent but may lengthen wait times, and police line 0900-8844 is also affected.
- The regional safety authority has activated a crisis team to oversee operations and public guidance during the disruption.
- In Rotterdam, a brief pursuit ended near the Erasmus Bridge with a 29-year-old arrested on suspicion of impaired driving, and hard drugs and multiple bottles of alcohol were found in the car.
- Separate incidents included a Strevelsweg crash that damaged four vehicles with a suspected impaired driver detained, and an Alblasserdam driver who drove through a fence into a garden structure was arrested without injuries.