A mistake with a chip shop order and an out-of-date packet of biscuits were among more than 22,000 time-wasting calls to the Met Police in 2019.
The force said its call handlers had identified 22,491 hoax 999 calls in the first 11 months of 2019. These included a woman complaining that she had been sent three saveloy and chips from the chip shop instead of one.
Ch Supt David Jackson said nuisance calls were a "huge waste" of resources.
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