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Contact NYSP
NYS AMBER Alert
Place this card under your telephone
Questions to ask:
- When is the bomb going to explode?
- Where is it right now?
- What does it look like?
- What kind of bomb is it?
- What will cause it to explode?
- Did you place the bomb?
- Why?
- What is your address?
- What is your name?
Document the exact wording of the threat.
Record the following call information:
- Length of Call
- Number at which call was received
- Time
- Date
- Any additional remarks
Try to identify:
- Sex of caller
- Race of caller
- Age of caller
- Caller's voice:
- Loud
- Soft
- High
- Deep
- Intoxicated
- Disguised
- Calm
- Angry
- Fast
- Slow
- Stutter
- Nasal
- Distinct
- Slurred
- Accent (type)
- Other characteristics
- Background sounds
- Voices
- Quiet
- Animals
- Street traffic
- Office machinery
- Airplanes
- Trains
- Music
- Factory machinery
- Other
- Threat language
- Well spoken/educated
- Foul
- Irrational
- Incoherent
- Taped
- Message read by threat maker
Make sure you know who to report the call to and have their telephone number on hand,
so you can contact them immediately.
