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The number of calls has dropped down to just 1,500 per day.Earlier, people, including children, used to make prank calls to the city police control room. Sometimes many people made misleading calls to the control room.The city police’s control room has seven dedicated lines for the emergency number of 100. PUNE: Officials at the city police control room, which used to receive as many as 30,000 calls per day, including several unwanted and prank calls, can now breathe easy.The police have managed to cut down unnecessary or prank calls, thanks to the installation of an Inter Active Voice Response System (IVRS). The number has now dropped down to about 1,500 calls per day from 30,000 per day, Suryavanshi said. Majority of the callers then just disconnect the phone..