The City of London's emergency calls are also dealt with by the Metropolitan Police Service (MPS). The MPS has adopted a target time of 15 seconds for responding to 999 calls.
In 2004-05 86.4 per cent. of calls were responded to within the MPS target time, in 2005-06 85.1 per cent. were responded to and in 2006-07 the figure was 81.3 per cent.
These data are based on provisional information which has not been verified with individual police forces.