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911 works in Europe too, because of American tourists and because of American cultural dominance, that made 911 popular even among Europeans.
In most of asia, you dial the specific emergency service you need, here in vn, its 112 for disaster response, 113 for police, 114 for police, 115 for medical.
In China its 110 police, 119 fire, 120 medical, for some reason.
Japan, Korea, etc, every country uses different numbers, with a little overlap so its basically impossible to remember.
USSR had 01 for fire service, 02 for police, 03 for medical. Most countries switched to 112, but it remains deeply engraved in culture.
As I understand, in EU, the 112 should be able to handle any emergency despite different specialised emergency numbers, e.g. for police may exist.
https://eur-lex.europa.eu/LexUriServ/LexUriServ.do?uri=CELEX%3A31991D0396%3AEN%3AHTML
112 is defined as an emergency number in the GSM standard. So it ought to work anywhere there is a GSM network.
TIL, thank you. Hence the "mobile only" option some of the countries coloured in black on the map may have.
As an American, I like the idea of separating medical, child protection, and police services. How many times was care delayed or forgone entirely for fear of police, let alone people killed, injured, or financially destroyed because a cop responded to a medical/mental episode?
I can only speak about Germany, where the 112 is primarily the number for fire or medical emergencies and only indirectly for police.
Are people nervous that if they say "My friend is ODing", the police will show up too? If they say someone suffered a gunshot wound, is care going to be delayed until the police give an OK to the ambulance? If someone is having a psychotic break and waving a knife around threatening to kill everyone, who shows up first?
Although our police is still part of the machine and there are cases of overreach and brutality, in general they're way better at de-escalation and handling disturbed people than Us-american police.
In Australia the number to connect with emergency services is 000
In my (limited) understanding this implies that, in Australia, 0 isn't used as the 'routing outside' digit.
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