Many people know the telephone number for calling the police from early childhood. Employees of this service are able to provide assistance to any citizen who has filed a report about an incident, crime or illegal actions. In all of these cases, the policeman is required to respond. And if this is a challenge, then go to the place where the violation was recorded.
Depending on the size of the locality, the number of calls to the service 102 can reach several thousand per day. They are all taken equally responsibly. Many of them require the departure of a dress or the involvement of other emergency services. But do all of them really need attention?
What is a fake police call?
A person’s life can often depend on the timeliness of a call to organs and services like the police. We hear all the time about vigilance and the need to inform the authorities about certain cases. But there are frequent cases of false police calls.
In this case, you need to know that such incidents can be classified as follows:
- knowingly false police call;
- unintended call.
And if the first is really a violation, then the second is not so simple.
Fake Call: Reinsurance
There are situations when a person believes that he or someone nearby is really in danger. Reporting this to the police, in fact, he does not commit a violation. It is such challenges that are observed most often. They are reinsurance and most often do not attract for them.
Such calls include all reports of terrorist acts, which subsequently did not find confirmation. People report packages, suspicious persons, or circumstances abandoned in vehicles and public places. It is clear that punishing people in such circumstances, you can achieve the exact opposite reaction. Such reports will completely disappear, and then, perhaps, the police will learn about the actual terrorist attack late.
How is the culprit identified?
Do not think that the culprit of a false call to the police is difficult to establish. Even if the function of prohibiting the identification of numbers is installed on the cell phone, call forwarding or a call is made through an independent contact - call center (these are the services through which many citizens receive promotional offers on cell phones. Both individuals can use their services and receive an anonymous number and organizations).
All police units whose work is tied to receiving calls are equipped with both caller IDs and recording equipment. If it is impossible to determine, the request can be sent to the telephone company, which has all the information on calls in full.
Fake police call: what threatens the offender
A police call is often made out of a desire to play a joke on a friend, play a relative, and annoy neighbors. After the first day of September, the number of reports of terrorist attacks in schools, arson of student dormitories and college auditoriums sharply increased.
All such actions are intentional, and constitute an administrative offense, according to the article on the false call of the police and other emergency services No. 19.3 of the Administrative Code of the Russian Federation. Having learned the amount of punishment, some may laugh. To date, this is nothing more than the amount that a student is given for lunch in some cities of Russia for a couple of weeks. After all, the penalty for a false police call is from 1 to 1.5 thousand rubles.
However, such a violation can be considered from a slightly different angle, using criminal articles. What will be the punishment for a false police call in this case?
On what basis can punishment be tightened?
An additional factor affecting the increase in the severity of the violation is the cause of the call itself. So, for example, a neighbor who claims that an arson was committed in a neighboring apartment will receive a fine for a fake police call already in the amount of the salary for 18 months and up to 200 thousand rubles. An alternative punishment will not please him either - this is correctional labor or restriction of freedom.
If a student decides to make a joke by declaring that the institute is mined, and people will suffer during emergency evacuation, then the fine will increase even more. This already draws on a salary for a period of 18 months to three years or an amount of up to 1 million. The term of restriction of freedom is also increasing, correctional work is not provided for in this case. All this is regulated by article 207 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation.
What is the punishment for a minor culprit?
In order to be able to apply the articles of the Criminal Code, the offender must be over 14 years old. This is established by article 87 of the Criminal Code. It is possible to bring to administrative responsibility from 16 years. Up to these citizens age limits, his parents are responsible for the fake police call of his joker child.
Teenagers are registered with specialized departments, and educational work is carried out with them. But parents will already have to fulfill the administrative penalty, which will be written out on the basis of Article 5.35 of the Administrative Code of the Russian Federation. Moreover, the fine will be formed not only from the fixed amounts. This may include all the costs of travel services.
In addition, private claims are possible. For example, some of the visitors to the object mined by a child became ill, so much so that hospitalization was required, and someone could not get to work. In this case, parents will have to compensate the victims and moral damage.
How is the evidence base in the fake call case compiled?
The first evidence will be a recording of a conversation between a caller and a police officer. All calls are not only determined, but also recorded. Thus, not only the information presented to the callers is recorded, but also the correct reaction of the police officer, his competence and correctness in relation to citizens.
After identifying the falsity of the call, the joker will have to explain the reasons for his call in writing. If at the same time he himself says that he committed this action as a joke or in order to annoy someone, then the evidence is there. In addition, evidence is being collected. If the call was about the neighbors, then the district policeman should also turn to them to collect data.
In the case of reports of terrorist attacks and arson, even more evidence will be collected, the joker himself will be examined for sanity. And in this case, the jokes will cease.
What if the unintentional false call is still punished?
There are times when an unintentional call can pose serious consequences. In this case, if there really is evidence that the caller is not guilty, it is possible to challenge the charges against the judicial authorities.
For example, when calling police to the scene of a fight, the caller cannot be sure that at the time of the arrival of the outfit, the fighters will still remain in place. Even after hearing the sounds of a woman clearly being killed from a neighboring apartment, it is impossible to say with certainty whether something like this is really happening there.
Therefore, before dialing the coveted number, it is worthwhile to really assess the visible or audible danger. On a calm head and a sober mind, decide whether there is really a threat to life. And just then make the call.
The application of sanctions in case of unintentional fake call is extremely rare. This is one of the most unpopular measures. Since in this way citizens can be “discouraged” from signaling violations that do not directly concern them.
After all, then people will surely pass by any fights, parents who beat their children, robbers, who endure everything acquired from the neighboring apartment. Most will turn a blind eye to the pedophile staring at the children in the park, or the guys pulling the pushing girl into the gateway.
Judging by the reviews, almost always such calls are not formalized even as an administrative offense.
Fake Call Price
The cost of a fake call is not only the price of fuel for cars, the payment of the police for the time they were away on such a call, the costs of the arrival of operatives, search dogs and other components. First of all, this is the time that authorities could spend on help where it is really needed. Faster to go to the scene of a fight, manage to save a woman from a drunken husband with a knife, find an escaped child.
Measuring the price of a fake call is not in money, but in saved lives. The police, no matter how negative the ordinary citizens may throw themselves at it, is doing a very important job. From the timely and correct actions of employees may depend on the life, inviolability of the rights of these same citizens and the safety of their property.