Can I call the police by sending harassing text messages?

Sending harassing text messages can call the police. Those who affect normal life are in violation of the Law on Public Security Administration Punishment, and the parties may report the case to the public security organ. You can save the boring information of harassment as evidence first and then call the police. SMS harassment belongs to the behavior of sending messages many times and interfering with the normal life of others. According to the regulations, the sender is detained for less than five days or fined less than 500 yuan.

1. The criteria for filing the crime of harassment are as follows:

1, writing threatening letters or threatening others' lives in other ways;

2. Insult others or fabricate facts to spread rumors about others;

3. Fabricating facts and slandering others with the intention of making others be investigated by laws and regulations;

4. Sending insulting or threatening information for many times, interfering with the normal life of others;

5. Peep, eavesdrop or spread others' privacy.

Second, the way to deal with malicious harassment on the Internet is as follows:

1. Ask the other party to stop the infringement harassment, such as calling the other party to stop the behavior;

2. Collect evidence in time, such as telephone recordings and chat records;

3, alarm processing;

4. Bring a lawsuit to the court. The infringed may ask the other party to stop the infringement and apologize. If there is actual loss, and it can be proved that there is a causal relationship between the loss and the infringer's behavior, you can also claim economic compensation.

Three, harassment punishment standards are as follows:

1, harassment, if the circumstances are minor, which does not constitute a crime, but should be detained for less than five days or fined less than 500 yuan according to law;

2. If the circumstances are serious, he shall be detained for more than five days and less than ten days, and may be fined up to five hundred yuan.

4. Bring a lawsuit to the court. The infringed may ask the other party to stop the infringement and apologize. If there is actual loss, and it can be proved that there is a causal relationship between the loss and the infringer's behavior, you can also claim economic compensation.

Legal basis: Article 42 of the Law of People's Republic of China (PRC) on Public Security Administration Punishment commits one of the following acts, and shall be detained for not more than five days or fined not more than five hundred yuan; If the circumstances are serious, they shall be detained for more than five days and less than ten days, and may be fined up to five hundred yuan:

(1) writing threatening letters or threatening the personal safety of others by other means;

(2) publicly insulting others or fabricating facts to slander others;

(3) fabricating facts, falsely accusing and framing others, and attempting to subject others to criminal investigation or public security administration punishment;

(4) Threatening, insulting, beating or retaliating against witnesses and their close relatives;

(5) sending obscene, insulting, intimidating or other information for many times to interfere with the normal life of others;

(six) voyeurism, sneak shots, eavesdropping, spreading the privacy of others.