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Emergency Calls

Volume 479: debated on Monday 21 July 2008

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department what percentage of emergency calls were met within the target time by the Metropolitan Police in each of the last three years. (219112)

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.