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Is it true that #77 on a cellphone is a direct link to police dispatch?

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Is it true that #77 on a cellphone is a direct link to police dispatch?

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#77 works in some states and others use #47. If you look at the keypad, you’ll see this translates to State Police and Highway Patrol. Many states also use 911. If a car, marked or otherwise, is behind you with the red and or blue lights flashing, you have to pull over to let it pass. If it pulls in behind you, then you have to remain stationary until the officer releases you. If it was illegal for Joe Q Public, security guards and auxiliary officers to outfit their cars with lights like cruisers, you would not have to be concerned with calling in to the police to check on the legality of the pullover. Don’t waste dispatches time with a call to tell them you are not stopping and will meet the officers at a better lit location. You are just aggravating the felony flight charge you have already incurred.

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