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Calling Northbridge, MA

Emily BakerEastern Reporter

User Aisakura7 of www.reddit.com, who claims to work for the town of Northbridge in Massachusetts, said dispatch had been getting non-stop calls for the past two weeks about incidents happening in Northbridge WA.

"After we don’t recognize the street they are mentioning, they then proceed to tell them how expensive this phone call will be," the user said.

"Sure enough, if you google,"Northbridge" the first thing that comes up is my town, Northbridge MA, in the US.

"People must be googling the police phone number and dialling ours."

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Sergeant David Ball said Northbridge's local policing team information was easily accessible at the WA Police website. "Basically, it clearly states Northbridge MA when googled, MA being I guess Massachusetts, so perhaps people are just misreading Google when they put in Northbridge Police," Sgt Ball said.

"If they require assistance from police in Northbridge WA, go to the WA police website where they can obtain a mobile phone number for the local policing team." For more information visit www.police.wa.gov.au