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| Subject: Useless UK Police are taking more than 18 hours to respond to some urgent 999 calls, new figures reveal Tue Apr 25, 2023 7:36 pm | |
| Police are taking more than 18 hours to respond to urgent 999 callouts such as burglaries and domestic incidents in some parts of the country, damning new figures reveal.
Forces took an average of five-and-a-half hours to respond to Grade 2 calls last year, the statistics show.
This is up from an average of four hours and 20 minutes in 2021 and just over three hours in 2019.
Grade 2 incidents involve no risk to life but include 'priority' situations where an offender has been detained at the scene, where crucial evidence or a witness could be lost and where there is concern for a person's health and well-being. Most forces aim to respond to them within one hour. The worst-performing force was Gloucestershire Constabulary, which had an average response time for priority calls last year of 18.5 hours.
This was followed by Derbyshire Constabulary (15.1 hours) and Avon and Somerset Police (12.9 hours).
.https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-12013261/Police-taking-18-hours-respond-urgent-999-calls-new-figures-reveal.html
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