Emergency response times in the majority of police forces in England and Wales are getting slower, fresh figures have suggested. More than two-thirds of forces to respond to a Freedom of Information request by the Labour Party revealed an increase in response times to 999 calls. Among rises over a two-year period, between 2011 and 2013, response times in Devon and Cornwall increased 50 per cent from six to nine minutes, while they were up 31.4 per cent in Kent from 8.4 minutes to 11.04 minutes. Read the full story:
Posted on: Tue, 20 May 2014 07:04:53 +0000
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