Met Police nuisance 999 calls: Annoying bus drivers and tardy pub grub

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A caller who was worried that KFC had run out of chicken and a woman complaining about her bus driver's whistling were among the nuisance 999 calls made to the Met Police this year.

The force recorded 21,733 such calls out of the two million it received between 1 January and 30 November.

Among the other callers was somebody complaining that breakfast had been served too slowly in a London pub.

Ch Supt David Jackson said unnecessary calls "take away police resources".

To highlight the problem, the Met has released details of a number of nuisance calls 999 staff have dealt with.

These included:

Ch Supt Jackson said police were "already stretched" without the non-emergency calls.

"During the time that our call handlers are dealing with these time-wasting calls, a member of the public could be in real danger," he said.