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If there’s a Stingray in your neighbourhood and it wasn’t meant for you then law enforcement started to replace regular cell network with Stingrays, which is unlikely. A phone knows it’s dialling emergency number because it’s preprogrammed into SIM. Also, a phone making emergency number call doesn’t have a preference as to which network will be utilised so a Stingray doesn’t have a benefit of overriding your own cell network as easily.
I might be talking out of my own butt but even US operators were in a bit of trouble because of this historically because they were able to locate just 20% of emergency calls originating on their own networks.