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Police 999 staff melted when a woman made an emergency call to moan that her ice cream did not have enough chocolate sprinkles.

West Midlands Police’s Force Contact team, which mans the region’s emergency lines, gave an icy response when its operators received the time-wasting request and handed the caller her just desserts for the call.

The force tweeted: “999 call from adult female who was reporting an ice cream vendor for not putting enough chocolate sprinkles on her cone... #unbelievable”

This was the latest in a string of crank calls to 999 services in the region.

Cops last year released a recording of a man who dialled police to complain about a prostitute’s looks after meeting her outside a hotel.

The force said they were contacted by the caller who said he “wished to report her for breaching the Sale of Goods Act”.

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Another caller sought help from emergency operators after forgetting her Facebook password, while a man dialled 999 to ask how to dial the 101 non-emergency number.

A separate “emergency” call was made by a member of public reporting a spiritual healer as a fraud, while another man dialled 999 asking the police “to come out to frighten his sister.”

Previous bizarre calls included a man phoning to claim to have found a hair in his food at a fast food restaurant.

Another demand came from a reveller who phoned to moan about being refused entry to a night club.

Almost half of the 700,000 telephone calls received annually by the force’s emergency number are deemed to be inappropriate.