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Home Office

Answer

Mr. Jenkin: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department what the target time is for the police to respond to 999 calls in (a) Essex Constabulary, (b) Tendring division, (c) Colchester division and (d) England; and if he will list the most recent performance in each case. [91463] Mr. Denham: The Government do not set target times for emergency response. The emergency response targets set by Essex Police Authority within Essex Police are the same for all divisions: Rural--20 minutes, Urban--10 minutes. There is not a national target--forces set their own, although the majority are rural 20 minutes and urban 10 minutes; the others are very similar. The latest Essex performance figures are as follows: Essex Police--Target 86 per cent. Performance (rolling 12 months to end December 2002) 83.5 per cent. Tendring Division--Target 88 per cent. Performance (rolling 12 months to end December 2002) 88.3 per cent. Colchester Division--Target 88 per cent. Performance (rolling 12 months to end December 2002) 83.9 per cent. The most recent figures available for England and Wales are those given in the Her Majesty's Inspectorate of Constabulary annual report 2001-02 published on 9 December 2002. These show that the average response times for attending incidents within target times were 78.7 per cent. in urban areas and 86.9 per cent. in rural areas.

Secondary information

Type

Written question

Reference

91463; 398 c713-5W;398 c711-3W

Session

2002-03

Subjects

Colchester Emergency services Police Standards Essex Police Tendring

Contains statistics

Yes

Link

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