{"id":93300,"date":"2026-08-24T07:09:46","date_gmt":"2026-08-24T07:09:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/?p=93300"},"modified":"2026-08-24T07:09:46","modified_gmt":"2026-08-24T07:09:46","slug":"uk-revealed-the-most-ridiculous-calls-to-101-as-police-start-using-ai-to-screen-for-time-wasters","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/uk-revealed-the-most-ridiculous-calls-to-101-as-police-start-using-ai-to-screen-for-time-wasters\/","title":{"rendered":"UK: Revealed: The most ridiculous calls to 101 &#8211; as police start using AI to screen for time-wasters"},"content":{"rendered":"<span class=\"span-reading-time rt-reading-time\" style=\"display: block;\"><span class=\"rt-label rt-prefix\">Reading Time: <\/span> <span class=\"rt-time\"> < 1<\/span> <span class=\"rt-label rt-postfix\">minute<\/span><\/span><p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i.dailymail.com\/1s\/2026\/08\/19\/16\/110732071-16064113-Every_year_the_police_s_non_emergency_line_101_receives_around_2-a-92_1787151963756.jpg\" alt=\"Every year, the police's non\u2013emergency line, 101, receives around 20 million calls from the public\" \/><\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s designed for non\u2013emergency police incidents \u2013 but it seems many Brits are taking the mickey when it comes to calling 101.\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailymail.com\/sciencetech\/article-16064113\/ridiculous-calls-101-police-AI.html\"> Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><span class=\"span-reading-time rt-reading-time\" style=\"display: block;\"><span class=\"rt-label rt-prefix\">Reading Time: <\/span> <span class=\"rt-time\"> &lt; 1<\/span> <span class=\"rt-label rt-postfix\">minute<\/span><\/span>\u00a0 It\u2019s designed for non\u2013emergency police incidents \u2013 but it seems many Brits are taking the mickey when it comes to calling&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":64058,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[154],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-93300","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-health"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/08\/Met-Police-logo.jpg","amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/93300","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=93300"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/93300\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":93301,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/93300\/revisions\/93301"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/64058"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=93300"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=93300"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=93300"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}