SOS Alarm: “The right to be upset” – Helsingborgs Dagblad

SOS Alarm: "The right to be upset" – Helsingborgs Dagblad

“But where in the head? How is it that you are able to call if you have been shot” asks alert the operator when the boy, who had been stabbed and shot in the head, call 112 from Norrahammar outside Jönköping. His 17-year-old friend has just been shot to death.

“I’m lying on the street, please come here,” said the boy during the more than five-minute talks must repeat the place where he is seven times . He also urged to pull themselves together.

SOS Alarm investigating the incident and says that there are issues during the emergency call that should not have been. But the woman who receives the call retains its duties, according to Aftonbladet.

– We’d done the interview better. It is sad if people lose confidence in us, states Sverker Petersson at SOS Alarm.

He has taken some of the criticism on social media, and do not want to say that it is unfair.

– Many are also trying to balance their posts, and look at what the emergency operator is looking for: To ensure there is danger to anyone’s life, and to which place you should send help, says Petersson.

P4 Jönköping, published an alarm call, talked to the 16-year-old boy.

– I was hewn ten times and shot in the head, but was still say again and again where I was. She thought I busringde, he said.

Of the more than three million calls that SOS Alarm, each year a small percentage of false alarms that are made consciously. Young people are over-represented among busringarna.

– But this conversation is supposed to not be affected by such a fact, says Sverker Petersson.

He also reacts to the operator does not provide The victim boy advice on what he can do until the ambulance will get there.

Two 17-year-olds were charged on Wednesday for the event in Norrahammar in October. Both are accused of murder and attempted murder. 16-year-old gunshot wound to the head was fatal.

In recent years, several people have died after being denied an ambulance or to the ambulance waited. The best known case is 23-year-old Emil Linnell, who died in 2011 of a ruptured spleen in his home after repeatedly have called but refused ambulance. The nurse who took the call was cleared by the Stockholm District Court of charges of aggravated manslaughter.