A failure as that of last week, where the 112 number is a night not to be reached, should no longer appear. The emergency number should always be accessible, will the minister of Security and Justice.
Minister Ivo Opstelten of Security and Justice writes in a letter to the Second Chamber. When the failure was 112 at night for hours unreachable, making 164 mobile callers not could connect with the central monitoring station. With fixed phones, no problems. When the failure is a resident of Amsterdam, died.
According to Opstelten, the interference caused by failure to follow internal procedures. During maintenance work on a cable that two departments of the police knots together, nothing was passed on to the departments, and a back-up system didn’t work.
When the failure was discovered, was this also not the highest priority. Opstelten wants to make sure that all fault messages 112 that get. In addition, should the procedures be tightened, he says.
It is not the first time this year that 112 with problems faced some. In march there were two failures. The first was the half of the 112-emergency rooms look like and not much later was the number again partially not accessible.