Pittsburgh Police Announces They Will No Longer Respond to Calls That Are Not Emergencies Due to Staffing Issues

Larry Scirotto, Police Chief of the Pittsburgh Bureau of Police, announced at a press conference last week that the organization will be making one big change to its policies, effective immediately.     

Chief Scriotto explained that, from now on, any phone calls made to the police station between 3:00 AM and 7:00 AM that are not on-going emergencies will not be picked up by an officer but, instead, sent to a telephone reporting unit. Otherwise known as an answering machine.