Metropolis, like any city in America, has an emergency service for citizens to call 911 in an emergency…even if it’s the home of Superman.
The cities of the DC Universe and the DC characters are much more diverse than the superheroes that inhabit it. This complex universe has many and varied cities and even reflects the daily activities of the many citizens who live in it.
In any case, like all large cities, there are emergency services that citizens can turn to in times of need, whether it’s a medical problem, a traffic accident, a fire, or a robbery. In this case, Metropolis, a city in the eastern United States, has 911 to alert emergency services.
9-1-1 emergencies
Citizens of the metropolis in case of an emergency (as well as in the city of the same name in Illinois) can contact the operator by calling 911, who will answer the call from any phone in the metropolitan area or at the installed Infohub kiosks. The city. This operator will transfer the call to the emergency services that need to intervene.
The Metropolis Police Department (Metropolis PD) installs and maintains telephone booths on city streets as well as city highways and intersections to facilitate the assistance of emergency services. These booths are programmed to contact a special line in the police operations department. These booths have the function of informing visitors that they are in an undesirable location in the city.
Since an emergency is identified by the call and managed by the operator, the normal response time of the city’s emergency services is very fast as help arrives on the scene within a minute and a half to three minutes, depending on the situation. The nature of the emergency; The maximum estimated time is less than five minutes, except in extraordinary circumstances or emergencies.
Metropolis P.D
This police department is one of the best in the US because it has an amazing success rate of 90% of cases that are solved, that is, except for ten percent of the complaints handled in the police stations, in all the rest the culprits are arrested and brought to justice. In addition, only four percent of the ten percent is unsolved, because within two years of the commission, the remaining 6% has been solved.
If the police investigation in the DC universe had a high level, Metropolis PD would be number one today – not as long ago as Tom King’s Gotham City: One Year -. Citizen satisfaction surveys also rate Metropolis Police highly as one of the best emergency services. All this is due to their active work in community service and prevention programs, which leads to greater police effectiveness.
In the emergency service, Metropolis police officers respond better to job satisfaction than other police forces, which is why many develop their full careers in the department and rise through its ranks. This sense of ownership and focus on the citizenry makes it a much harder place to corrupt than in places like Bludhaven.
The Metropolitan Police has more than 43,680 uniformed officers and many administrative support staff, which are distributed among the department’s central agencies (MCU, SWAT, Air Unit…) and the city’s 118 police precincts. Most agents live in the neighborhoods they serve, and the FBI has seen crime drop in almost every crime category studied in its statistics.
The Metropolis Police Department is a police force that, in emergency services, has many non-lethal weapons, in fact, 85% of agents use these weapons, such as subsonic generators, stun guns, and rubber bullets and taser guns.
Metropolis Fire Department
Metropolis firefighters are unusual in American fire departments because of the unique environment surrounding the city in which they work. This emergency service is a national and international leader in the control and suppression of fires – arson or accidental fires caused by metahumans and aliens fighting in the metropolis.
The fire department has pumps, cranes, rescue units and a marine unit. Also, the Hazardous Materials Response Team (HazMat Response Team) – which also exists at the federal level in the US – is also responsible for the storage of this type of substance. Their great specialization allows them to neutralize and contain plasma, radiation, toxic chemicals, molten materials – metal, stone, glass… – and level 4 biological hazards.
Emergency medical emergency personnel are involved, they are the first on the scene, that is why they have special doctors and ATS in their staff, they allow the victims to calm down and move them to a part of the city as soon as possible. Hospitals.. Their specialization, like other emergency services, allows them to care for the injured and injured by metahumans and aliens.
In the metropolis, there are 240 fire stations in the six main divisions-districts into which the city is divided. This allows the response time to be between one and a half minutes and three minutes, as established by the City Council, except for special situations that require the involvement of specialized emergency units, such as the HazMat Response Team. Firefighter Farrell, seen in post-Crisis, is promoted to captain, which can be read in Batman & Superman: World’s Finest #4.
Along with these emergency services, Metropolis has offices of US federal agencies such as FBI, DEA, ATF, US Marshall, DHS – Customs and Border Protection (CBP) and ICE -, IRS, TSA… In addition to state agencies and members of the Department of Defense.