Last Wednesday marked the European Day recognising 112 as the emergency number - a day where the importance of this phone number is reminded, and where statistics associated with the previous year are also issued. During 2025, a total of 384,468 calls were made to 112 with 184,693 calls - 48% of all calls - deemed to be either not appropriate for the
An alert system that warns mobile users of local emergencies, irrespective of their SIM card's country of origin, should be launched by the end of the year. Home Affairs Minister Byron Camilleri told a 112 awareness-raising event on Wednesday that his ministry had been working on such a system - known as Reverse 112 - for some years now. The system
During 2025, a total of 384,468 calls were made to 112 with 184,693 calls – 48% of all calls – deemed to be either not appropriate for the emergency line or be false or abandoned calls, the Home Affairs Ministry and Education Ministry said in a joint statement. A total of 96,416 genuine and valid calls were escalated to the second level of response,
