West Yorkshire Police said pocket dials and children playing on phones is causing problems.
About 200 accidental 999 calls are being received by a police force every day.
West Yorkshire Police said pocket dialling and children playing on their parents' phones accounted for a number of the calls. Staff said every emergency call needed investigation, sometimes requiring a personal visit, and misdials were adding to workloads.Senior contact manager with the force, Tom Donahue, said the growing number of misdials came as they saw a 6% year-on-year rise in emergency calls."The problem for us is that every one of these calls needs to be investigated to make absolutely sure no-one is in danger.
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