"Many Photos" - The Met will allow householders to report break-ins or attacks with their smart speaker

The Metropolitan police force is developing technology that will allow people to use their voice-controlled devices in an emergency.

Victims of crime will soon be able to yell for help from their smart speakers - such as Amazon's Alexa or Google's Assistant - which will then alert the police.

Scotland Yard believes the devices, currently used by almost 3million UK households, will ‘change the face of police contact’, according to documents seen by The Sunday Times.

The Metropolitan police force is developing technology that will allow people to use their voice-controlled devices in an emergency

Being developed by Britain's largest police force, the technology will let it receive ‘an incoming demand from a home automation bot, rather than from a human’ within the next 18 months.

The report added: ‘That contact may be triggered by the human issuing a command to their bot, or it may be automatically generated by the bot through AI [artificial intelligence].

‘Work is already under way to design the technology capabilities of the future contact centre and to consider potential developments in this area.’

Victims of crime will soon be able to yell for help from their smart speakers - such as Amazon's Alexa or Google's Assistant - which will then alert the police

The publication reported that senior policing sources questioned whether the development could mean the ‘beginning of the end’ for 999 calls.

They originated in London in 1936 and it was the world’s first automatic telephone service to call the emergency services.

An emergency number was first suggested when five women died during a fire in the UK's capital in 1935 after neighbours dialling the switchboard for help found it jammed with calls.

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