Fake ambulance call. The right to call: who will be punished for making a false call to an ambulance and the police

A single emergency number "112" has been operating in the Ulyanovsk region for several years. The number of calls is increasing every year.

Every day the dispatchers of the "Rescue Service-112" receive over a thousand calls, of which 80% are false. So, in June, the unified dispatch service in Ulyanovsk received more than 30 thousand false calls.

Fake calls, as a rule, come in two categories: with reports of "imaginary" incidents or the so-called "childish prank". In addition, both children and adults call 112 in order to check the operation of the SIM card or ask inappropriate questions, for example, "how to call a taxi", "what day of the week is today", "what time is it", etc.

Just the other day, the merry fellows asked to save them from hunger, asked to provide the phone number of the pizza delivery, - said Vera Lazareva, the dispatcher of the EDDS of the city of Ulyanovsk. - Fake calls take the line. And at this time, someone really needs the help of firefighters, rescuers, doctors. Indeed, at such moments, seconds count.

Several operational services are involved in false calls with a message about the incident: firefighters, police, ambulance, etc. dog handlers with dogs, flights are canceled or delayed. Calling an ambulance, police or firefighters, and in especially "difficult" cases and all together, out of hooligan motives, is punishable by law. This is called - deliberately fake call specialized services.

If you call the special services without having any reason for this, giving a false address or in order to "annoy" your neighbors, you may be brought to administrative responsibility first. Responsibility for these actions is provided for in Article 19.13 of the Administrative Code of the Russian Federation: “Knowingly false call fire department, police, ambulance or other specialized services - shall entail the imposition of an administrative fine in the amount of 1000-1500 rubles. " Only a sane person who has reached the age of sixteen at the time of committing an administrative offense can be brought to administrative responsibility. A false report about a terrorist act implies criminal liability. Under article 87 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation, persons who have reached the age of 14 are criminally liable.

In the case when an administrative offense was committed by a teenager under the age of 16, and a criminal offense under the age of 14, then liability does not arise, and the case is referred to the commission on juvenile affairs, which applies educational measures to adolescents. In addition to these measures, the parents of a minor offender are brought to administrative responsibility for failure to fulfill their obligations to support and educate minors (Article 5.35 of the Code of Administrative Offenses of the Russian Federation). Administrative liability implies warning and imposition of a fine. And teenagers are registered in the juvenile affairs unit.

According to article 207 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation "Deliberately false report about an impending explosion, arson or other actions that create the danger of death of people, causing significant property damage or the onset of other social dangerous consequences"The following penalty will be applied:

Or a fine of up to 200,000 rubles or in the amount of wages or any other income of the convicted person for a period of up to eighteen months;

Or correctional labor for a period of one to two years;

Or arrest for a term of three to six months;

Or imprisonment for up to three years.

Modern technical means help to easily identify telephone hooligans and bring them to punishment. The cost of a fake call is not measured in monetary terms only. First of all, behind every call of the fire brigade there is an opportunity to save human life or property. Remember - there is always a chance that the fire element can touch you personally!

The Main Directorate of the EMERCOM of Russia in the Ulyanovsk Region once again reminds the population: "Rescue Service - 112" is a single emergency call number, by which you can call firefighters, doctors, police, life support services around the clock and free of charge. the number "112" could cost someone a loss tangible property, health and the most valuable thing - life.

The fire brigade is one of the fastest reacting organizations, as the rate of fire spread is so high that there can be no delay.

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Responsibility to fire brigades among the population should be great enough! In enterprises, in and public organizations where there are special squads quick response to a fire that has arisen, people are well aware that the rules of conduct when a fire is detected include a recommendation to call the firefighter immediately if there is a suspicion of a fire. And if a vigilant citizen calls specialists, mistaking the smoke from the burnt food in the dining room, the reflection of the setting sun on the river bank as a flame, this, of course, causes outrage. But even more indignation deserves those who make a false call on purpose.

it certain groups of people:

those who want to play a trick on someone, children;
people with an unstable psyche;
hooligans;
those who are in a state of alcoholic and drug intoxication.

An unjustified departure of the fire brigade is a waste of resources, because in addition to the departure of special equipment, other services are also involved: access roads are blocked, an ambulance also leaves the place, public transport flights are canceled, and more. In addition, at this moment there can always be someone who really needs help, but there is none. Those who make false calls cannot be left unpunished.

What is the fine for a false call of firefighters in Russia

In accordance with Articles 19.13 of the Code of Administrative Violations, No. 195 FZ of the Russian Federation, which also provides for punishment for knowingly calling an ambulance and the police, for the first time the violator receives a notice of a fine, the amount of which ranges from 1 to 1.5 thousand rubles. Responsibility is borne by a person who is 16 years old or more. If information about a terrorist attack appeared in the call, it will be about criminal liability, starting from the age of 14. The responsibility for the behavior of younger children falls on the shoulders of their parents. And adults can be brought to administrative responsibility for unfair performance of parental duties in accordance with Articles 5.35 of the Code of Administrative Offenses of the Russian Federation. A minor citizen becomes the subject of police supervision of disadvantaged children.

What kind preventive measures what can you do about fake calls? It is easier to do this in families with small children. Of course, numbers such as "01", "101" and "112" should be entered in the memory of their mobiles, but adults should also have conversations that explain to the kids the responsibility, as well as the consequences "Call draw" by these numbers.

One of the above violations is interpreted by lawyers as administrative, the other is considered a criminal offense.

Criminal measure

For the case when a false call becomes the cause of death of people and incurs significant loss of property, it is determined by Article 207 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation and is:

monetary penalty (salary or other income of the convicted person for a period of up to 18 months);
a penalty of 200 thousand rubles;
forced labor (from one to two years);
restriction of freedom (3-6 months);
compulsory isolation (up to 3 years).

Without thinking about what kind of a fine for a false call of firefighters can be obtained, irresponsible citizens do not delve into the fact how wide the possibilities of modern technical means, helping to determine from which number the call was made, and even to establish the location of the caller.

Departure statistics show that the number of false and the number of objective calls in Russia is approximately the same. It is easy to imagine what kind of material damage we are talking about, if you know that every three minutes another fire breaks out in the Russian Federation, and every four minutes the fire brigade dispatcher receives another false call. It is difficult to respond in a timely manner to real case fire, when it is necessary to send the brigade to a false one.

Until the adopted bill on increasing the fine in case of repeated summons, the Duma has already considered, but has not yet entered into force, even the proposed increase in the fine to 4-5 thousand rubles is incommensurate with the material and time costs when assistance is not required. According to statistical data, about 70 million rubles are spent on servicing such signals per year. To represent this amount in material terms, it is enough to understand that this money can provide high-tech fire equipment residents small town, with a population of 100 thousand people.

What are the motives behind such calls to the fire brigade

The number rises sharply during the school final exams, it happens that such an action is dictated by the desire to take revenge. But people who have witnessed a fire and are afraid to make a false call to the fire department, a fine for which should be immediately followed, should understand that even a minor fire in a workplace or in a dry forest can lead to an instant spread of fire. Do not delay the challenge in this case!

It is important to understand: The fire brigade will always respond to the signal, and when it comes to reinsurance, then there will be no penalty.

Above, we mentioned cases when the motive for the actions of the telephone hooligans was revenge, and the call was made, for example, to the address of an unsuspecting person. In addition to sanctions for telephone hooliganism and false calls to the special services, lawyers suggest using penalties under Article 129 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation for libel, in cases where calls about the same person are made systematically. The caller should be clearly aware of how much the penalty for a false call to firefighters will be in this case. We remind you that today it is 1-1.5 thousand rubles and will soon be increased for repeated calls, an alternative is possible in the form of community service in free time from the main activity. If there are victims (for example, firefighters broke down the door in the apartment, furniture and walls flooded with water and foam), they have every right to sue the author of the "false call" for the damage caused.

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"In what cases are the employees of the Ministry of Emergency Situations called to open the front door."

Every now and then we read the headlines in the media and on the Internet: “In Crimea, false calls for firefighters have become more frequent!”, “Firefighters made false calls 14 times a week” (Pushkinsky municipal district, 2016), communications were received 113 messages ". Such games with human lives are unacceptable. Everyone should remember that while firefighters follow such a signal, people die somewhere else.

01- single telephone of the rescue service

112 - a single number of the Ministry of Emergency Situations for a call from mobile phone emergency services.

We teach our children to be vigilant, not to communicate with strangers, to keep track of their belongings, not to take anything from strangers, not to open the door for them, to call the rescue service if someone is bad, something burns, smells of smoke or gas, if cries for help are heard.

In addition, today, due to the increased frequency of terrorist attacks, in in public places you can always see and hear announcements about the request not to touch the ownerless things on your own, but immediately report where to.

General panic. Erroneous emergency calls

As a result of such informational pressure, not only public vigilance increases, but also panic. Citizens do not always assess the situation objectively and call emergency numbers "just in case."

Common real-life examples of "reinsurance" calls:

while walking, the pensioner thought that her mother was yelling at her daughter angrily, and she thought that the parent might beat the child, and called the police;
the couple went on vacation, and in the evening their son drove into the apartment to feed the animal - the neighbors called the police;
the child dreamed of something, he woke up at night and began to cry loudly, his mother panicked, and as a result - a false call for an ambulance;
the schoolgirl forgot her backpack in the bus, the passengers suggested that the transport was mined.

Such excesses occur constantly, and it is impossible to insure against them. Erroneous calls cause serious damage to the entire system of the Ministry of Emergency Situations, but in these situations people or someone's property could really suffer, therefore, no punishment is provided for such calls.

What is the harm caused by false and erroneous calls to the rescue service

While the brigade and specialized transport with equipment are sent on a false call, somewhere an ambulance or firefighter may be waiting for those who really need them, and the most valuable resource in emergency situations is spent - time.
At the moment of receiving the call, the line is busy, and the one who really needs urgent help cannot get through.
There are also direct material losses - gasoline, work time, the use of specialized equipment, the call of dog handlers, additional special services, etc.
There are also many indirect losses, which are very difficult to calculate. This is a simple transport (in the case of explosion testing). As a result, people were late for work, some negotiations broke down, the plane flew away without someone. Prolonged blocking of shopping and entertainment centers, loss of teaching hours in schools and universities, working hours in business centers, etc.

Intentional sabotage

Most often, these calls are made by children. For fun, out of curiosity. They do not know that there is a fine for falsely calling the police, ambulance, fire department. Or they expect that they cannot be calculated, since the call is anonymous. Sometimes adults also make false calls with the aim of revenge on others, disrupting the working day, and for other frivolous reasons.

The main thing that phone hooligans should know is that they will definitely be found. Moreover, in a very short time, and punishment will certainly follow.

Fines for false calls to rescue services

The first category is a fine for making a false call to firefighters, police, ambulance, or other specialized services in the amount of 1,000 to 1,500 rubles. It is provided for by Art. 19.13 of the Administrative Code of the Russian Federation "Deliberately false call to specialized services." If the call is made by a child or a group of children, then their parents or legal representatives bear administrative responsibility. At the same time, a "case" is set up against the children and transferred to the commission on juvenile affairs.

The second category is the so-called "telephone terrorists" who leave false messages about an impending terrorist act. Such actions fall under Art. 207 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation. For actions falling under this article, punishment is provided in the form of a fine of up to a million rubles, as well as forced labor for up to 3 years, and imprisonment for up to 5 years.

There are precedents when erroneous calls are interpreted as false and qualify as an administrative or even a criminal offense. If you disagree with the interpretation of your actions, seek the help of a professional lawyer. He will help to prove the absence of corpus delicti.

Emergency phone numbers "01", "02" and "03" are the most important phone numbers that every person should know. Life depends on his knowledge, and not only his own. But how often today these most important numbers become a tool for pampering! At a time when, perhaps, someone dies in the next house.

Calling an ambulance, police or firefighters, and in especially "difficult" cases and all together, for hooligan motives, is punishable by law. This is called a deliberately false call to specialized services. If you call the special services without having any reason for this, giving a false address or in order to "annoy" your neighbors, you may be brought to administrative responsibility first.

Responsibility for these actions is stipulated by Article 19.13 of the Administrative Code of the Russian Federation: “Knowingly making a false call to the fire department, police, ambulance or other specialized services - entails the imposition of an administrative fine in the amount of 1000-1500 rubles.” Only a sane person who has reached the age of sixteen at the time of committing an administrative offense can be brought to administrative responsibility. A false report about a terrorist act implies criminal liability. Under article 87 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation, persons who have reached the age of 14 are criminally liable.

In the event that an administrative offense was committed by a teenager under the age of 16, and a criminal offense under the age of 14, liability does not arise, and the case is referred to the commission on juvenile affairs, which applies educational measures to adolescents. In addition to these measures, the parents of a minor offender are brought to administrative responsibility for failure to fulfill their obligations to support and educate minors (Article 5.35 of the Code of Administrative Offenses of the Russian Federation). Administrative liability implies warning and imposition of a fine. And teenagers are registered in the juvenile affairs unit.

According to article 207 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation "Deliberately false information about an impending explosion, arson or other actions that create the danger of death of people, causing significant property damage or the onset of other socially dangerous consequences", the following punishment will be applied:

or a fine in the amount of up to 200,000 rubles or in the amount of the wages or other income of the convicted person for a period of up to eighteen months;
or correctional labor for a period of one to two years;
or arrest for a term of three to six months; or imprisonment for up to three years.

According to the Department of Supervisory Activities of the Ministry of Emergency Situations of Russia, only the state Fire Service spends about 70 million rubles a year on false calls. The dispatcher has no right not to accept the call, the car will leave in any case. Everyone should know that by making a false call, you are distracting the forces of the emergency services, and at this time their help may be required to save someone's life. Also, you are on the air, and someone simply cannot get through and ask for help.

WARNING!

All emergency telephones are equipped with an automatic call recording system. You will definitely be found and brought to justice!

City lawmakers decided to increase the fine for falsely calling the police and other emergency services, as well as toughen the punishment for repeat offenders.

A joke at the cost of life

The city authorities are concerned about the situation: over the past period of 2016, more than 5% of calls to emergency services turned out to be "dummies". For 12 months of operation of the 112 operational service, about six million messages were received, while last year 311 thousand calls were made by pranksters.

That is why the deputies of the Moscow Regional Duma proposed to their colleagues from the State Duma to toughen the punishment for fans of unsuccessful rallies. If something does not work for a citizen in his head, then let him pay for it with a ruble or work with our hands, - the authors expressed such conviction, proposing to increase the fine for a false call of firefighters, police, ambulances, rescuers to one and a half to three thousand rubles. The alternative punishment is one hundred hours of community service.

The deputies also thought about chronic cases. For a repeated call without a valid reason, the amount of the fine will increase to 5 thousand rubles, and it will take two hundred hours to work for the good of society.

On a note. Amendments are proposed to be made to Art. 19-13 "Deliberately false call of specialized services" of the Code of Administrative Offenses.

You don’t need to be seven spans in your forehead to understand: the special brigade that left on the call of the joker may simply not be in time to those who really need help, especially in large metropolitan areas with their many kilometers of traffic jams. The existing fine for a false call in the amount of one and a half thousand rubles is a ridiculous punishment, while some experts suggest not being limited to administrative liability. Let it only work for adolescents, they say. If the call is made by an adult, he should think about his act for three years in a general security prison.

Specific actions

The bill, which toughens responsibility for fictitious calls to emergency services, will not be considered until autumn, when the updated State Duma begins work. In the meantime, the Moscow authorities are trying to find other ways to solve the problem.

For the 112 rescue service that has been operating for a year, an auto-dialing system has been installed, so the caller has to listen to the robot's reminders about administrative responsibility for a fictitious call.
The numbers of the jokers are entered into a special register. Blocking of SIM cards is not provided, because a person may actually need help.
There are plans to install a filter for receiving calls from phones without SIM cards. In order to leave a request, a person will have to dial a few additional numbers. As the developers assure, this will not affect the efficiency, but it will allow filtering fake calls.

Distinguish between terrorism and hooliganism

It is unlikely that ordinary citizens are ready to distinguish between telephone terrorism and hooliganism. The first includes inappropriate reports of explosive devices or other terrorist threats. They are especially popular with schoolchildren who do not want to write another dictation. Meanwhile, this offense involves criminal liability (up to 5 years in prison) and a fine (up to 1 million rubles).

In the case of telephone hooliganism, we are talking about calling the emergency special services in situations where there are no victims or those who need help. V Last year the State Duma received several bills proposing to toughen criminal liability specifically for terrorism, while hooliganism remained an equally urgent problem throughout the country.

According to statistics from the Judicial Department under the Supreme Court, over the past year in Russia only 25.5 thousand people were punished for unfunny tricks, although only in Moscow there were 12 times more “comic” appeals.

The deputies believe that the increased fine for falsely calling an ambulance, police or firefighter should stop those who like to joke. Five thousand rubles for most Russians is an impressive amount. And sweeping the streets, painting fences or weeding flower beds is not as exciting as relaxing in the country with your best friends. Note that public works are carried out exclusively in their free time from the main type of activity.