So are these numbers emergency numbers meaning you could call them even if you don't have credit on your cell phone.

Despite the police claiming to be on 12- hour shifts, the response time for crime still seems to go beyond 3-5 hours. Even in cases where violence is involved and one or more persons safety, if not their lives, are in danger, the police are taking more than two hours to respond. Thinking that "selective response units" would be dispatched throughout the island so that they can reach the scene of an emergency in a matter of minutes, diffuse the situation and turn it over to local police. Then the response unit can be free to respond to the next call for assistance. But this does not seem to be the case

Before the police were on the 12 hour shifts, wouldn't it be that when the first shift was over, the shift relieving the prior had a continuous flow. Orrrrr when the first shift was over, before the second shift started, the police stations would shut down/close and emergency calls would go unanswered for several hours/or even minutes until the relieving shift come on. 12 hours shifts, because the police officers are human-beings is just causing those individual to have less personal time to spend with their loves ones, do personal shopping/runs and as it has to do with the work clock, in some instances work output is less efficient because the officers are tired.

The issue of fatigue or tiredness should not arise at this point, since the police have only been working these extended shifts for a few weeks. Construction works at Bah Mar are working two full shifts a day. Some have been doing it going on two years Its just a matter of getting out there and responding to calls for police assistance.

Coup detat ?