Decatur Police: Tips If You’re Being Followed
Decatur Metro | July 10, 2013Decatur Police also sent out this list of tips addressing the common question of where to go if you believe you are being followed…
There has been much discussion about where to go in Decatur if you feel as though you are being followed. With the police department currently being under construction, it is not as easy as it used to be. The location that is staffed 24-hours is the Communications Center that is currently located at 314-C Church Street with the entrance just to the right of the Big Peach Running Company on East Trinity Place. The office location in the basement of 250 East Ponce de Leon Avenue is not staffed 24-hours and the officers are typically out on the road.
There are not any 24-hour gas stations within the city but depending on where you are, there are 24-hour gas stations at North Decatur Road and Clairemont Avenue; North Decatur Road and Scott Boulevard; North Decatur Road and Dekalb Industrial Boulevard; QT on Lawrenceville Hwy just before Hwy 78; Hosea Williams Boulevard and Howard Street; Columbia Drive and Memorial Drive and Candler Road and Memorial Drive.
There is also the front desk at the Marriott on Clairemont Avenue, Fire Station 1 on East Trinity Place, Fire Station 2 on West Hill Street and an excellent suggestion on Decatur Metro of the emergency rooms at DeKalb Medical or Emory Hospital.
However, if you are in the city and feel that you are being followed, we recommend you keep driving on main roads, call the non-emergency number (404/373-6551) and stay on the line with the communications officer and update your location so we can have an officer sent to you. If you are not in the city, try to locate a police station/officer, well-lit populated business or call 911 and request assistance.
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One tip I learned a few years ago: You will NOT remember the DPD non-emergency number, so enter it into your cell phone phonebook. Then, add a “1”, or whatever your phone requires to precede the name, to make it come up first when you go to “Contacts”. This way, if you ever need it, you won’t have to scroll down to find it!
Or better yet, do what I do – program it into one of the immediate access keys on the keypad. If I hold down “2”, it dials DPD.
I don’t know… I’m not sure I want to butt-dial the police.
I don’t know about yours, but my phone can lock the screen to prevent butt-dialing. Accidental butt-dialing the PD can have unintended consequences, though. I recall an incident on the west side a few months ago where an entire drug buy was recorded on 911 after one of the parties butt-dialed.
That made me laugh. Hit real close to home.
if i’m being followed, i’m turning on my blinking hazard lights, honking my horn, and generally becoming a clown car–minus all the clowns. except one.