Victim’s daughter puts in ‘pizza order’ with 911 to signal domestic violence

sorry got 9-1-1 I would like to order a piece on it you called 911 to order a pizza yeah apartment this is a wrong number to call for a pizza no no no no no I'm getting you know in his 14 years of service this is a call Oregon dispatcher tympanic has never gotten before you see it on Facebook but it's not something that anybody has ever been trained for we're just trained to listen he says domestic violence calls are common but not like this the other guy still there yeah I need a large pizza all right how about medical you need medical know what pepperoni after this exchange technical erta doff assert to hurry turn your sirens off before you get there call her ordered a pizza and agreed with everything I said there's domestic violence going on Tenex says his intuition that something wasn't right kicked in which to him reaffirms how important listening is in his line of work other dispatchers that I've talked to would not have picked up on this they've told me they wouldn't have picked up on this they're excellent dispatch work on the part of our dispatcher some dispatchers may have hung up Oregon Police Chief Michael Navarre told me that ordering a pizza to indicate domestic violence is something he's never heard of not on my ears not my 42 years of odd force but coming up with some kind of code to alert 911 trouble is the right thing to do the chief says if you ever find yourself in a similar situation here's what you should do somehow or another conveyed to that police dispatcher that you were in trouble and this woman did that she did that not with her words but with the tone of her voice thanks to the quick thinking of both the caller and the dispatcher the alleged abuser Simon Lopez was arrested and locked up he handled the call beautifully and it had a happy ending

Channel: CBS 17

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Id: VG1SsQP19jo

Length: 2min 0sec (120 seconds)

Published: Fri Nov 22 2019