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Ambulance service slams pranksters as Greater Manchester sees highest volume of hoax calls in region

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Hoax 999 callers can have 'extremely serious consequences', the ambulance service has warned, as the highest volume of fake dials within the North West are coming from Greater Manchester.

New data has revealed that the North West Ambulance Service (NWAS) has received almost 4,000 fake calls since 2018. Of those 3,723 calls, some 1,606 came from within Greater Manchester.

The figure from within Greater Manchester is almost double that of the next highest region, Merseyside, which accounts for 870 of the calls made in the three-year period.

The volume of hoax calls rose from 2018, when there were 443 from the Greater Manchester area, to 506 in 2019. The number dropped to 372 during 2020 as the pandemic began, out of a total of 753 across the whole of the North West.

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