# How do I call the police in England from the US????? **URL:** \ **Category:** Factual Questions\ **Created:** [July 18, 2001, 12:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-do-i-call-the-police-in-england-from-the-us/72916 "2001-07-18T12:38:57Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 9\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Una\_Persson](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/una_persson/32/346_2.png) [@Una\_Persson](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Una_Persson)\ **Post date:** [July 18, 2001, 12:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-do-i-call-the-police-in-england-from-the-us/72916/1 "2001-07-18T12:38:57Z")
Please help me. Something has happened to Fierra and I cant get ahold of anyone there. How can I call the police/public safety/whatever in Hemel Hempstead, UK, from the US??? ---
**Author:** ![APB](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/8e8cbc/32.png) [@APB](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/APB)\ **Post date:** [July 18, 2001, 12:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-do-i-call-the-police-in-england-from-the-us/72916/2 "2001-07-18T12:44:56Z")
[http://www.cathus.co.uk/hertspol/hertpol3.html](http://www.cathus.co.uk/hertspol/hertpol3.html) ---
**Author:** ![Una\_Persson](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/una_persson/32/346_2.png) [@Una\_Persson](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Una_Persson)\ **Post date:** [July 18, 2001, 12:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-do-i-call-the-police-in-england-from-the-us/72916/3 "2001-07-18T12:51:32Z")
Thank you!!! ---
**Author:** ![APB](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/8e8cbc/32.png) [@APB](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/APB)\ **Post date:** [July 18, 2001, 12:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-do-i-call-the-police-in-england-from-the-us/72916/4 "2001-07-18T12:54:52Z")
No problem at all. Glad to be of some assistance. ---
**Author:** ![Crusoe](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/49beb7/32.png) [@Crusoe](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Crusoe)\ **Post date:** [July 18, 2001, 12:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-do-i-call-the-police-in-england-from-the-us/72916/5 "2001-07-18T12:55:49Z")
Hope everything is okay there. Can you let us know? ---
**Author:** ![Una\_Persson](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/una_persson/32/346_2.png) [@Una\_Persson](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Una_Persson)\ **Post date:** [July 18, 2001, 2:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-do-i-call-the-police-in-england-from-the-us/72916/6 "2001-07-18T14:19:15Z")
She was taken to the hospital with CO poisoning. She was treated with oxygen for a while, and thank God is OK now. Still pretty ill, but alive. Una ---
**Author:** ![Crusoe](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/49beb7/32.png) [@Crusoe](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Crusoe)\ **Post date:** [July 18, 2001, 2:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-do-i-call-the-police-in-england-from-the-us/72916/7 "2001-07-18T14:21:08Z")
Nasty. Can you pass on a ‘get well soon’ from me if you speak to her? I’d send grapes but I doubt they’d last the journey… ---
**Author:** ![xizor](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/xizor/32/102_2.png) [@xizor](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/xizor)\ **Post date:** [July 18, 2001, 2:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-do-i-call-the-police-in-england-from-the-us/72916/8 "2001-07-18T14:33:37Z")
Wow, that is scary. How did you know something was wrong? Did she pass out during a phone conversation or something? If you speak to her again, pass on a “get well/thinking of you” from me as well. ---
**Author:** ![Una\_Persson](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/una_persson/32/346_2.png) [@Una\_Persson](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Una_Persson)\ **Post date:** [July 18, 2001, 2:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-do-i-call-the-police-in-england-from-the-us/72916/9 "2001-07-18T14:42:00Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by xizor \* > \*\*Wow, that is scary. How did you know something was wrong? Did she pass out during a phone conversation or something? > > If you speak to her again, pass on a “get well/thinking of you” from me as well. \*\* I won’t go into the details of how I found out, except to say that it was very scary. I already had a reservation pending on Delta’s website to fly to the UK late this afternoon - that’s how scary it was. I started a “get-well” thread [here](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?threadid=78497).