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threoh8 wrote:It's a good idea to keep the non-emergency number to the local police in your cell phone, just to pass on information about suspicious people and situations. 911 I can remember.

I keep the non-emergency numbers to every police department for every area I commonly frequent. It's come in handy multiple times... but Houston's -3131 non emergency number sometimes isn't available, redirecting you to call 911. My friend's car got egged (as he was driving down the road, the kids were just throwing eggs at moving cars), and we went back to call the police to handle it, we called the non-emerg, and ended up having to call 911. I'd really hate to take up a line that somebody dying could have used, but they left us no choice :(