What Time Roughly Was The Bedroom Telephone Put In The Kitchen?

[Robittybob1]

Who's number?

Essex police.

[Robittybob1]

Are you talking about the blue forum? It's in the case related photographs because it's still case related. I 'think' it was taken as part of a documentary about the case.

There were 4 bedrooms in the Bamber house.  Only 3 appear to have been photographed.

[APRIL]

We have the same problem in NZ.  Local stations would be unmanned overnight. Recently they introduced a new non-emergency police number 105 as opposed to the 111 emergency number.

I think I did ring the 105 number once IIRC and it took 10 -15 minutes to get answered and then heaps of time to sort out where one was and how the call was to be handled.  Half an hour later the thought of first reporting some issue through the 105 number looked rather pointless.

Our emergency number is 999 and is answered immediately. The caller is asked which of the emergency services are required.

[Robittybob1]

Our emergency number is 999 and is answered immediately. The caller is asked which of the emergency services are required.

Different countries have different emergency numbers.  I wonder if they all should work in every country, like how often do English tourists ring the wrong number when they are visiting NZ? 
I wonder who answers the 999 number when it is called in NZ?

This is what Wikipedia says about the NZ system "In the interest of international compatibility, calls to foreign emergency numbers (112, 911,[14] 999 etc.), will be automatically diverted to 111. On average, 48% of calls to 111 are non-genuine. Over time, several measures have been introduced to attempt to reduce the number of non-genuine calls, such as the recorded message played to callers as soon as they dial 111 and charging for non-genuine calls made from landlines."

I didn't know that but it seems such a good idea.

[APRIL]

Different countries have different emergency numbers.  I wonder if they all should work in every country, like how often do English tourists ring the wrong number when they are visiting NZ? 
I wonder who answers the 999 number when it is called in NZ?

This is what Wikipedia says about the NZ system "In the interest of international compatibility, calls to foreign emergency numbers (112, 911,[14] 999 etc.), will be automatically diverted to 111. On average, 48% of calls to 111 are non-genuine. Over time, several measures have been introduced to attempt to reduce the number of non-genuine calls, such as the recorded message played to callers as soon as they dial 111 and charging for non-genuine calls made from landlines."

I didn't know that but it seems such a good idea.

To ring England from anywhere abroad we have to use a 044 or 44 prefix. We'd be highly unlikely to call an English emergency number from abroad.

[Robittybob1]

To ring England from anywhere abroad we have to use a 044 or 44 prefix. We'd be highly unlikely to call an English emergency number from abroad.

That is not what I meant, but I suppose there are those UK tourists who don't trust the destination police forces and do that too.

[APRIL]

That is not what I meant, but I suppose there are those UK tourists who don't trust the destination police forces and do that too.

In an emergency it would be easy to turn to the familiar. At such times we tend to run on automatic. It's later when we might think of consequences.

[Caroline]

There were 4 bedrooms in the Bamber house.  Only 3 appear to have been photographed.

Jeremy's old room was locked but ALL of the bedroom were photographed, they're just not all on the internet.

[ISpyWithMyEye]

That is not what I meant, but I suppose there are those UK tourists who don't trust the destination police forces and do that too.

Are you saying if someone was running amok with a gun in NZ and a British tourist was nearby they’d try to call the emergency number 999 for the English police?

Are they really THAT slow in NZ?

[Robittybob1]

Jeremy's old room was locked but ALL of the bedroom were photographed, they're just not all on the internet.

So could someone have been hiding in there when the police arrived?  Was it padlocked from the outside?   How was it determined to be locked?   I've spent time studying the Jonbenet Ramsey case and the room she was later found in was supposedly locked too.

[Robittybob1]

Are you saying if someone was running amok with a gun in NZ and a British tourist was nearby they’d try to call the emergency number 999 for the English police?

Are they really THAT slow in NZ?

No, we Kiwis are OK but the English tourist might still ring the UK emergency number from NZ.

[ISpyWithMyEye]

In an emergency it would be easy to turn to the familiar. At such times we tend to run on automatic. It's later when we might think of consequences.

Any normal person receiving a call from their father at 3am, saying their sister had gone berserk with the gun, and then the line was cut off would IMMEDIATELY dial 999.

They’d possibly also call one of the neighbours/farm workers/the Boutflours/Eaton’s who ALL lived on the same land and warned them Sheila had the gun & was going crazy, so to be careful in case she came after them. Or he could have asked them to make headway carefully and be on alert until he and the police arrived.

Why didn’t he do that,eh?

[ISpyWithMyEye]

No, we Kiwis are OK but the English tourist might still ring the UK emergency number from NZ.

Really?!

I wouldn’t.

Would you phone NZ police if you were in the UK when someone had a gun pointed at you?

[Robittybob1]

Any normal person receiving a call from their father at 3am, saying their sister had gone berserk with the gun, and then the line was cut off would IMMEDIATELY dial 999.

They’d possibly also call one of the neighbours/farm workers/the Boutflours/Eaton’s who ALL lived on the same land and warned them Sheila had the gun & was going crazy, so to be careful in case she came after them. Or he could have asked them to make headway carefully and be on alert until he and the police arrived.

Why didn’t he do that,eh?

Well how do we know he didn't?  How do we know who else he called when he arrived home at Goldhanger?

[ISpyWithMyEye]

So could someone have been hiding in there when the police arrived?  Was it padlocked from the outside?   How was it determined to be locked?   I've spent time studying the Jonbenet Ramsey case and the room she was later found in was supposedly locked too.

There was NO-ONE else in the house.

It was thoroughly surrounded and searched in all rooms.

Of course they broke the door down to JB’s bedroom...do you seriously think the police wouldn’t have?