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Netherlands 112 Outage Slows Emergency Calls as Dispatch Shifts to Backups

Officials advise persistent calling, with Rotterdam-Rijnmond coordinating through a crisis team.

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.