The Enugu State Government has urged residents to take advantage of the 112 toll-free line to get emergency security services anywhere in the state.
The Senior Special Assistant to Gov. Peter Mbah on Security, Mr Vincent Onyeabor, appealed during the ongoing journalists’ tour around various projects being handled by the Governor Peter Mbah-led administration.
Journalists specifically toured various workstations within the Command-and-Control Centre, Enugu. Onyeabor noted that the state had adopted and domiciled the National Emergency Number 112 Toll-Free Line as its official emergency security services number also.
According to him, we have a workstation here in the Command-and-Control Centre, Enugu, which is dedicated to answering toll-free 112 emergency calls every minute of the 24 hours in a day. He noted that officials on the 112 free-toll line workstation operate on shifts per day and ensure that complaints are escalated to the appropriate quarters for rapid action.
“The 112 toll-free line section can trigger action in terms of security emergencies. The section will escalate the information received to the Command-and-Control Centre, Enugu, to use the state-wide fibre cameras to trace the security or crime situation.
“The section can escalate the same information or message to the nearest Distress Response Squad (DRS) vehicle to take action. “Our people should take advantage of the 112 Toll Free Line as we want the call to keep coming,” he said. He said that other numbers included: 09134666668 and 09134448093.
He noted that the state had witnessed an 80 per cent drop in crime rate due to technological deployments. “This is made possible through the state’s huge investment in the operationalisation of the fibre-enabled surveillance cameras Command-and-Control Centre, 112 toll-free line, drone systems and mobile statewide DRS squad, among others.”
