http://www.azcentral.com/offbeat/articles/1025911-25-ODD.html
Cut somewhat for length. I'd like to see this woman's face on a Volk poster.
Police take 19 hours to respond to woman's 911 call
THE CANADIAN PRESS
Oct. 25, 2007 08:53 AM
WINNIPEG - A Winnipeg woman is a little miffed that it took police 19 hours before they showed up to investigate her 911 call about catching burglars in the act of ransacking her house.
Joanne Martin told Global TV Winnipeg that she thought it would be OK to leave her house alarm off because she would only be out for a couple of hours. But she returned to find a van parked in her driveway and at least three thieves loading up her belongings.
Insurance company officials showed up about an hour after they were called, but though police were called within five minutes of Martin spotting the thieves, officers didn't arrive at the home until the next day.
"I don't know what they can do now," said Martin.
One city official admits something went wrong.
"We're having issues with call prioritization," said Gord Steeves, chairman of the city's protection committee. "Our volumes are in the thousands in terms of calls that we're getting every single day. But we're still lined up with way too many calls in the queue and there has got to be a better way to ferret out the less important ones."
Cut somewhat for length. I'd like to see this woman's face on a Volk poster.