The emergency dispatcher believed they were talking to a Six Nations youth about to take their own life.

Officers with Six Nations Police burst into the house to prevent the youth from self-harming.

But it was all a hoax.

“Upon entry, police discovered that the caller who reported the emergency was impersonating the youth located at the residence, who was not in a crisis,” Six Nations Police Const. Jamie Smith said in a media release on Friday.

The fraudulent emergency call was one recent local example of “swatting,” where a fake emergency brings police and other first responders to a house full of confused residents.

The hoax suicide call on Six Nations took place Sept. 1, police say. The next day, Haldimand OPP dealt with the first of three swatting calls to come in that week, in

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