111 (emergency telephone number)
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For the single non-emergency number medical helpline in England, Scotland and Wales, see NHS 111.
"1-1-1" redirects here. For other uses, see 111 (disambiguation).
111 (usually pronounced one-one-one) is the emergency telephone number in New Zealand. It was first implemented in Masterton and Carterton on 29 September 1958, and was progressively rolled out nationwide with the last exchanges converting in 1988.
About 870,000 111 calls are made every year, and the police introduced a new number (105) in 2019, to take non-urgent police calls away from the "111" service (see 105 (telephone number)).[1][2] [3] [4]