A nose ring down the drain, a cancelled AirBnB reservation and a directions home from a concert.
Those were just some of E-Comm’s top nuisance calls of 2023.
Every year, E-Comm – which handles 99 per cent of B.C.’s 911 call volume – releases its list of top nuisance calls.
“No matter how absurd a call might be on the surface, we have to treat every 9-1-1 call as an emergency, until we can confidently determine otherwise,” E-Comm police call taker Alaina Milicevic said.
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