People trying to call Hertfordshire Constabulary via its 101 number this afternoon may not be able to get through after the line was hit by technical problems.
The force said some calls on the non-emergency number were not reaching its operations team this afternoon due to the issue.
It advised people whose call is not an emergency to call back later and callers are asked to only use 999 in the case of an emergency.
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