A Hong Kong man was arrested in Taipa yesterday for repeatedly abusing the 999 hotline earlier this year, Public Security Police (PSP) spokesman Cheong Heon Fan said during a regular press conference yesterday in Zape yesterday.
Cheong said the suspect, surnamed Liu, is a warehouse worker in his thirties.
Cheong said that on the evening of February 26, the local emergency hotline received a total of 38 calls within 26 minutes from a man with a Hong Kong number. The man, who spoke to hotline operators using foul language, said things like “I have a lot of time” and “I am going to play with you guys [the police]”. In the more than three dozen nuisance calls, the suspect told operators that he kept calling so as to block others from calling in.
This handout photo provided by the Public Security Police (PSP) yesterday shows the SIM card and the smartphone used by the Hong Kong suspect.
