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 For those who contacted the Police about KFC being out of chicken ... please STOP. Their website says the Prestwich store is now open if you want to follow the four police cars through the drive thru .. 

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 Please do not contact us about the # KFCCrisis - it is not a police matter if your favourite eatery is not serving the menu that you desire. 

 Good news, over half of our restaurants are now back open! Our teams are working flat out to open the rest. Equilibrium will soon be restored.pic.twitter.com/ZXgijpBR7L 

 A closed sign hangs outside a KFC restaurant in Coalville, England. Darren Staples/Reuters 
 
 Angry chicken fans in Britain have been reporting KFC to the police because hundreds of their stores ran out of chicken. 
 
 As many as 450 branches across the UK are shut for a fourth day after a change of distributors led to a nationwide chicken shortage for the company. 
 
 Others are open with severely limited menus, including one restaurant in Bristol which could only offer BBQ beans, lettuce and popcorn chicken. 
 
 Matt Cardy/Getty 
 
 Police forces in Tower Hamlets, London, and Whitefield, Manchester, have tweeted their frustration at being dragged into KFC's crisis, which they explained was not an issue for them. 
 
 Tower Hamlets MPS said: "It is not a police matter if your favourite eatery is not serving the menu that you desire." 
 
 Some frustrated customers have also been contacting their members of parliament in hope of a political solution. 
 
 Neil Coyle, an MP for Bermondsey and Old Southwark in south London, wrote on Monday: 
 
 The Telegraph and The Times also reported Luke Pollard, an MP for Plymouth, Sutton and Devonport in south England, as tweeting: "Have had my first person get in touch to ask what's happening with #KFC . . . and the answer is, I don't know (yet)." 
 
 Pollard appears to have deleted the tweet in question. 
 
 KFC swapped deliverers from Bidvest Group to DHL last week, causing what the fried-chicken empire described as "teething problems" which have crippled its ability to operate. 
 
 DHL has one distribution depot in Rugby, central England, while Bidvest had several around the country, according to the trades union GMB, which represents slighted Bidvest employees. 
 
 The map below shows the distance lorries have to travel from DHL's Rugby depot to KFC outposts as far away as northern Scotland and the southwestern tip of England. 
 
 Google Map/Business Insider 
 
 KFC tweeted on Tuesday evening that "over half" of its stores around the country have reopened, and that "our teams are working flat out to open the rest." 
 
 It also told BBC that, despite its efforts, some will remain shut for the rest of the week. 
 
 The company also has a designated web page where people can find their nearest open outlet. 
 
 "Equilibrium will soon be restored," the company said. 
 
 On Wednesday, the BBC posted a video of at least seven lorries waiting outside DHL's depot in Rugby. 
 
 DHL blamed the chicken shortage on "operational issues," and said that it was working to "rectify the situation as a priority." 
 
 London's Metropolitan Police told Business Insider in a statement: "The Met's call centres currently receive more than 14,500 calls every weekday. 
 
 "The Met is continuing its drive — including the use of its social media channels - to reduce improper use of the 999 and 101 numbers."
– Failure to get your hands on finger-lickin'-good chicken is not a real emergency, no matter how bad your craving, British police are stressing in the midst of KFC's UK chicken shortage. Police in Tower Hamlets produced the warning about improper police calls Tuesday on Twitter, per the Evening Standard. Greater Manchester police have received such calls, while at least one lawmaker says he's been hearing from angry constituents, reports Business Insider. Meanwhile, a woman's reaction to a restaurant closure resulted in what's been called "the most unnecessarily over-dramatic moment in TV history." Suffering from delivery issues, KFC has acknowledged "the horror" and indicated it wanted to make it up to her. The company said Tuesday that half of its 900 UK stores are now open, up from 300, adding "equilibrium will soon be restored." (A woman once called 911 about a pizza.)