Dial 888 when you are in Mogadishu if you need security help

[Casanova25]

The cops will be there just in time..

[metamorphosis]

lmao. Emergency numbers are meant for places that are relatively peaceful. Mogadiho is like 100% percent unstable and unsafe. There is probably a person getting killed or raped every minute. It is not like the security team can attend to them all.

[Casanova25]

Police in the Somali capital, Mogadishu, have launched an emergency police telephone service for the first time in more than 20 years.

Residents can call the emergency number - 888 - and the authorities say a police car will be sent out.

Police spokesman Mohamed Yusuf Madaleh told the BBC it was part of efforts by international donors to revamp the country's police service.

The government is fighting Islamist militants for control of the country.

The Islamist al-Shabab group has been driven out of Somalia's major towns by a UN-mandated African Union force of some 18,000 soldiers, which is backing the government.

But it still controls many towns and rural areas of southern Somalia - and frequently launches attacks in Mogadishu.

'As soon as possible'
Gen Madaleh told the BBC Somali Service the emergency calls will be rooted to call centres in different areas of the city.

He said the service now had enough cars and officers to deal with requests.

The 888 number is being advertised in the local media. Police promise to send out officers to investigate as soon as possible after a call is logged.

Before the collapse of central government in 1991, Mogadishu had three separate emergency numbers for the police, fire service and ambulance service - none of them available countrywide.

The other two numbers are not yet up and running.

During the civil war, the 888 number was taken over by a private company, which agreed to give it back when asked by the police service, Gen Madaleh said.

[Casanova25]

lmao. Emergency numbers are meant for places that are relatively peaceful. Mogadiho is like 100% percent unstable and unsafe. There is probably a person getting killed or raped every minute. It is not like the security team can attend to them all.

do you think Mogadishu is new York.. you said 100% do you know what that Means, it Means second World 2 in a city.. relax! people are having fun and the city is rebuilded..

[metamorphosis]

I was just saying it is unrealistic. Who in their right mind expects anything humanitarian from bunch of skinny moryans in oversized uniforms? Mogadisho is shit bro. They should just put a barbed wire fence around it and call it a zoo.

[Casanova25]

Whatever rocks your boat.. you got the number there if you ever escape the desert a live!

[metamorphosis]

[outlaw112]

I was just saying it is unrealistic. Who in their right mind expects anything humanitarian from bunch of skinny moryans in oversized uniforms? Mogadisho is shit bro. They should just put a barbed wire fence around it and call it a zoo.

Lol