A Leeds woman called 999 36 times in the space of less than two hours 'for no reason'.
Sarah Coates, 48, dialled West Yorkshire Police 36 times between 6.24am and 8.11am on Sunday, April 23, Leeds Magistrates' Court heard this week. Coates, of Noster Place, has now been jailed for 12 weeks.
BT also confirmed that they received further calls on 999 from 6.13am which had not been connected to West Yorkshire Police. She admitted that she kept calling for no reason.
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Coates was also ordered to take part in rehabilitation activity and pay court costs of £85 and a victim surcharge of £154. Superintendent Mick Rutter, said: "We recently relaunched our campaign asking the public to ‘help us to help you’ by making sure you only use our emergency and non-emergency numbers appropriately and make use of our online contact options.
"Callers like this who misuse these services can delay us in answering real emergencies. This was a persistent wasting of police time and we will take action where it is appropriate to do so."
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