Police 

The 4-1-1 on 9-1-1

If you are staying at ARC for any length of time, you will be briefed on emergency systems and procedures. One of those is the 9-1-1 emergency system, and it is slightly different from what you may be used to.

If you call 9-1-1 from a land line NASA phone, you will get the ARC/Moffett Field 9-1-1 operator. They will know you're calling from ARC/Moffett Field, and will follow up accordingly.

If you call 9-1-1 from a cell phone, you will connect with the local area 9-1-1 system. They will not automatically know that you're on Ames/Moffett Field. You will have to tell them that yourself. Tell them early. Depending on the circumstances, they may transfer you to the ARC/Moffett Field system, but either way, it will speed things up if you tell them up front where you are.

If you want to connect directly to the ARC/Moffett Field 9-1-1 system using a cell phone, call 650-604-5555. This works exactly like calling 9-1-1 from an NASA land line phone.

You should receive a card with this and related information on it when you are briefed upon arrival. If either the card or your briefing contradicts anything on this wiki, BELIEVE THE CARD OR THE BRIEFING. You might also correct this wiki if you see that it's wrong, but don't rely on it as a primary source.

Other Information

Incidentally, the people staffing the gates and patrolling the streets at NASA Ames Research Center are not security guards. They are real police. They have full law enforcement authority both on ARC/Moffett Field and in the surrounding jurisdiction.  (Among other things, this means that they can follow people off of Ames, so if you were planning on stealing the wind tunnels and making it out the front gate before you got caught, they can still chase you.  Just so you know.)

Because there's not a lot of serious crime going on at ARC, they are frequently bored real police. As a result, if you break laws that might normally be ignored outisde the gates - exceeding the speed limit, using a cell phone while driving, running stop signs, operating a bicycle without a helmet, pretending that stop signs don't apply to you because you're riding a bicycle, etc. - chances are good that you'll be stopped, and possibly ticketed. So, wild as the concept is in much of the modern world, you really do need to follow the law.

On the other hand, being real police, and pretty friendly at that, they can and will help you out if there's a problem. This is, after all, what police do.

Some things people have been pulled over for at Ames (add yours here as a heads up!): 

• Driving too close to another car (following to the Golf Course).

• Riding a bicycle without a helmet.

• Running stop signs down DeFrance.

• Running stop signs on a bicycle.

• Speeding on the road to the golf course, where the speed limit drops to 25.