The sheriff’s department in southern California’s Orange County reports the 911 emergency call system for much of the county has been repaired after an outage that shut it down for 90 minutes early Saturday.
He says callers could still dial two regular business numbers to reach dispatchers, but it is unknown how people would know to call those regular business numbers.
The outage was caused by changes related to the introduction of a new 657 area code in the region. AT&T fixed the problem with no serious aggravated 9-1-1 request-for-help situations reported.
The Criminal Intelligence Service Canada released in its annual report that the “US dollar weakened significantly against other major currencies in 2007 and according to some economists, is expected to depreciate further in 2008″ and “as a consequence, other currencies — particularly the euro — are poised to weaken the US dollar’s dominance as the currency of choice for international remittances and payments.” The agency added that the “trend could also drive an increase in observed instances of bulk-cash transfers denominated in currencies other than Canadian and US dollars.”
There are about 900 organized crime groups in Canada working illicit drug trade, credit card fraud, organ trafficking, identity theft and illegal logging of trees.
Criminal Intelligence Service Canada’s 2008 Report on Organized Crime was released Friday August 22, 2008 at a news conference in Montreal.
Source:
Criminal Intelligence Service Canada (Official Site)
