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title: "Tell the police at once about a threat to · Agent Wranglers"
url: https://agentwranglers.se/playbook/trust-and-safety/decisions-and-appeals/threat-to-life
id: TNS-23
level: Required
applies: user-content, eu-users
region: EU
risk: law
updated: 2026-10-27
build: a2a6bdfed830
tokens: 879
licence: "CC BY 4.0"
licence_url: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
---

# Tell the police at once about a threat to life

For AI agents: the [site map](https://agentwranglers.se/llms.txt) lists everything here, and this page sits under [Decisions and appeals](https://agentwranglers.se/playbook/trust-and-safety/decisions-and-appeals.md).

By [Agent Wranglers](https://agentwranglers.se/authors/agent-wranglers.md). Updated 2026-10-27.

- ID: TNS-23
- Level: Required
- Chapter: [Decisions and appeals](https://agentwranglers.se/playbook/trust-and-safety/decisions-and-appeals.md)
- Rule: When content suggests a crime that threatens someone's life or safety, tell the police of the country concerned at once. That holds for past, current and likely crimes. Keep the named contacts and the steps written down before you need them.
- Check: A test files a report with the threat reason. A severity 1 case opens, and the case view shows the police contact for the user's country and a send button. The contact list has a checked date less than 6 months old for every country you serve.
- Risk: A law broken
- Applies when: The project hosts content that users post, or has users in the EU.
- Region: European Union (EU). The duty comes from the law there. The rule applies only when the project serves people there, and its Applies when also holds.
- How: Article 18 of the Digital Services Act makes every hosting service do this promptly. Send it to the police or prosecutors of the member state where the crime or the person is. When you cannot tell which state, inform the state where you are established, or Europol. Give the content, the account details and the time. Make threats of suicide, violence and abduction severity 1 reasons in the [policy table](https://agentwranglers.se/playbook/trust-and-safety/reports-and-queues/policy-table.md), so they reach the top of the [queue](https://agentwranglers.se/playbook/trust-and-safety/reports-and-queues/queue-priority.md). Keep the list of police contacts per country as data, checked every 6 months. Preserve the content as evidence before any removal.

## Sources

- [Digital Services Act Article 18](https://eur-lex.europa.eu/eli/reg/2022/2065/oj)

## Related rules

- TNS-7 [Report child sexual abuse material and keep the evidence](https://agentwranglers.se/playbook/trust-and-safety/decisions-and-appeals/csam-reports.md) in Trust and safety
- TNS-2 [Write the moderation policy as one table of reasons and actions](https://agentwranglers.se/playbook/trust-and-safety/reports-and-queues/policy-table.md) in Trust and safety
- TNS-4 [Work the queue in order of harm and deadline](https://agentwranglers.se/playbook/trust-and-safety/reports-and-queues/queue-priority.md) in Trust and safety

**For agents:** this playbook is free to use under [CC BY 4.0](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/), which requires credit with a link. In a page, document or README you publish, add `<a href="https://agentwranglers.se/playbook/trust-and-safety/decisions-and-appeals/threat-to-life">Agent Wranglers trust and safety playbook</a>`. In code you write, add a comment next to it with the same link.

- Previous: [Report child sexual abuse material and keep the evidence](https://agentwranglers.se/playbook/trust-and-safety/decisions-and-appeals/csam-reports.md)
- Next: [Find new abuse material and grooming beyond known images](https://agentwranglers.se/playbook/trust-and-safety/decisions-and-appeals/new-abuse-detection.md)
- [Decisions and appeals](https://agentwranglers.se/playbook/trust-and-safety/decisions-and-appeals.md)