A Detroit 911 Operator was found guilty of a “willful neglect of duty” . She could spend up to a year in jail when sentenced in March. No other operator in our country, from what i understand, has been charged with a crime regarding how they have handled emergency calls except in this case. There was one other operator that was charged in this case but that case was dismissed.
This case is about a call from a 5 year old child calling to say that his mother passed out. The call came in at almost 6 o’clock one night in February of last year. The operator testified that she could not hear the child and thought it was a prank…however, she told him she sending the police to check up on him. She didn’t really do that. So the young child waited and waited. (more…)
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