The ambulance, the fire department or the police in time, and the timely response of the employees more than once saved the lives of people. Numbers of these services already in children's schools oblige to memorize. This is necessary, as children should also be able to call specialists for help when necessary.
However, some do not quite understand the responsibility of the work of ambulance or police officers, so often calls to the appropriate services come from children and adolescents who are entertained in this way. And in those moments when the service is in a hurry to make a fake call, somewhere, maybe someone really needs help. Therefore, it is perfectly appropriate to assign responsibility for a fake call to the police or other service.
The dispatcher, unfortunately, cannot determine whether the interlocutor is really telling the truth, so services are required to respond to any call. It is bad when upon arrival it is discovered that there is no need for help. But there was an operation of equipment and the cost of gasoline. Someone has to compensate for this. It is necessary to add to this that during a fake call, the interlocutor takes up a work line, which does not make it possible to get through to a person who really needs help. Therefore, the punishment for a false call to the police or other service is a necessary and fair measure.
What can be false calls?
Most often, such fun is characteristic of adolescents who, in the absence of their parents, have fun in this way. This has already become standard entertainment. Unreasonable children do not understand what damage they do to other people, and most importantly - to themselves. Indeed, in any case, a fake call to the police will have to pay a fine to their parents.
The law provides for several types of false calls:
- Erroneous. It is rare, but also occurs. If, for example, a person hears the smell of gas at the entrance, then he immediately calls the appropriate service. Upon arrival, gas workers find that the smell comes from the paint (just someone from the neighbors painted something at home). Also, people can call the fire service, seeing in the distance smoke, which is actually water vapor, etc. In this case, the citizen who called the service will not have anything, since he acted correctly and did not violate anything.
- Intentional calling is common. In this case, we are talking about children who have fun in this way. Moreover, even adults can do this. Adults often call an ambulance or the police at the address of their neighbor or enemy in the hope of causing him trouble.
And if an erroneous false call is forgiven to a citizen, then a deliberate one is necessarily punished. And you do not need to assume that the services will not be able to calculate the offender by the phone number. All services use modern technical devices that can determine not only the address, but also the location of the caller. Therefore, a fine for a false police call will follow.
What are the fines?
The Administrative Code provides for a special article. A fake call of the police in accordance with it is an administrative violation, and it is punishable by a fine in the amount of 1000-1500 rubles. It seems that the amount is small, but the responsibility will depend on how large the scope of such a joke. A similar fine will have to be paid if you call the police to your neighbor to annoy him.
In cases where pranksters claim the mining of a metro station, airport or train station, the responsibility will be more serious. It must be understood that in the event of such a message, services are required to respond, so flights may even be blocked, and subway entrances may be blocked. All this is accompanied by huge financial losses. Consequently, a person who has made such a false police call faces administrative and civil liability. He will have to pay a huge fine in the hundreds of thousands of rubles, and in some cases even criminal liability is possible. At the insistence of the prosecutor, violators can be detained for up to 5 years.
Who can attract?
Now you understand what responsibility is possible for a false police call. Of course, minor children cannot be held criminally liable and pay a huge fine. What are they doing in this situation?
According to the legislation (Article 19.13 of the Code of Administrative Offenses), administrative punishment will be incurred:
- Persons whose age at the time the offense was committed was 16 years old.
- Parents if the offender is under 16 years old.
If it turns out that the violation "attracted" to criminal liability, then the teenager will have to answer from the age of 14.
Punishment for minors
After the "joke" of the child, specialists immediately begin an investigation, determine the contact details of the caller. After establishing the age of the child, they provide an invoice to the parents, which they are required to pay. Amounts are always different, but what is included in the size of the fine?
If, for example, the intruder declares the mining of the station, then he (or his parents) will receive a figure in rubles. The size of the fine will consist of the sum of the costs of the work of people, dogs, special equipment and confirmation of the absence of mining. You will also have to pay the cost of gasoline, the work of forensic scientists, bomb experts and other employees.
Municipal services can also catch up, providing an invoice for downtime, power outages, and additional employees who were forced to go to work on a day off.
Compensation for Affected Citizens
We must not forget the angry passengers of the station, who also will not stand aside. Many do not have time to get to work, to study on time, and someone could just become ill due to fear. All these people through the court can demand compensation from the offender, who decided to have fun in this way. Therefore, a deliberately false call to the police in some cases can result in such a huge amount of a fine that the offender or his parents will not be able to pay for their whole lives.
Therefore, if your child wants to have fun in this way, then explain to him that for this "entertainment", which will last only a couple of hours, you will have to pay for years, or even throughout your life. Imagine how expensive the suspension of an airport can be.
Also, responsibility for a false police call cannot be avoided even by a person under 16 years of age. In accordance with the law, a case is filed and filed with him at the juvenile commission.
How not to get a fine for a fake police call?
Even some adults do not understand why the police are needed, and often call them when they are not needed. Situations are common when, during a quarrel between a couple, one of the participants calls the police under a completely contrived pretext. For example, a girl may claim that her husband is forcibly holding her in an apartment because she does not give her the keys to his car. In such situations, the call is regarded as false. Naturally, a fine of 1,000 rubles is imposed on the offender.
Call an ambulance
Ambulance staff also complain about false calls from citizens. The latter may incorrectly indicate the address.There are more frequent cases when the brigade is called simply because of a headache or nausea. Less often it happens that an ambulance is called to a person, but in the end it turns out that the animal needs help.
Therefore, making a call to the ambulance service, you need to clearly formulate the cause of the call, describe the patient’s condition and its symptoms, accurately name your data and the data of the person who needs help. If the door at the entrance is closed, you must call the dispatcher code. Ideally, the caller should meet an ambulance and take the doctors to the patient, having prepared a passport.
Penalty for false ambulance call
It is worth noting that a penalty is also imposed for a false ambulance call - 1000-1500 rubles. Not only hooliganism will be considered a false call. If, for example, upon arrival, the person calling the service does not open the door to the doctors or the patient is not at the address, then this will be regarded as a false call. Some grandmothers may call for help allegedly because they feel unwell, but in fact they just want to get to the hospital by ambulance. All this is an administrative violation.
Conclusion
Now you understand that a fake police call faces administrative and sometimes criminal liability. Therefore, the work of law enforcement bodies and public health should be treated with responsibility and called for them only if there is a real, rather than far-fetched threat.