Victorians will need to learn a new number to call police with a 24-hotline being created to stop callers clogging up triple zero with non-urgent issues.

The emergency number is being bombarded with noise complaints, neighbourhood disputes, party registrations, burglaries and thefts.

The new hotline, to start in 2019, will be for such matters to free up triple zero to deal with genuine life-threatening and urgent situations.

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Almost 30 per cent of calls to triple zero are believed to be non-urgent, taking up resources from responding to emergency calls.