Department of Interior and Local Government (DILG) Secretary Ismael Sueno replace the emergency hotline 117 and 911 make it.

Being familiar with the reasons why people make the 911 emergency hotline that will be implemented starting on August 1.

Meanwhile it was based on the instruction of President Rodrigo Duterte to make it accessible to all the emergency hotline, which now has 15 seats, 43 agents and has a database of the Philippine National Police (PNP). The number is expected to double them when implemented reform office.

The law of the President, would free each call to 911, but in the meantime will be answered first caller the cost until a memorandum of agreement with each of the agencies involved.

At the same time called Sueno avoid prank calls to 911 to 911 immediately respond to real needs.

Last year, there were 57 "prank calls and hang" at 117 per hour. 911, an estimated 2,730 to be recorded "hang and pranks calls" per hour from approximately 3,003 calls.
 
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