Police response times (256A/22)
Request
For calendar years 2019 up to and including 2021, please provide the average police response times for 999 calls categorised as i) I grade ii) S grade and iii) E grade and broken down by local authority.
We clarified with you on 17th Feb 2022 and you responded on 18th Feb 2022
For calendar years 2019 up to and including 2021, please provide the average police response times for 999 calls categorised as i) P1 ii) P2 iii) P3 and iv) P4 and broken down by NPU
Response
Average response time for incidents* with a response time.
Where incident date between 01/01/2019 and 31/12/2021 and received method is 999/112/cell-net / Graded by response, year and NPU.
*Does not include incidents with the following Final Classification/Closures groups.
| Blank final classification | ||
| Administrative | ||
| Task | ||
| P9 | ||
| WMP Police Generated Activity | ||
| OOF Police Generated Activity | ||
| Birmingham East | P1 | P2 | P3 | P4 |
| 2019 | 0:20:27 | 4:30:08 | 13:09:17 | 7:17:23 |
| 2020 | 0:20:34 | 3:33:33 | 8:52:14 | 7:39:16 |
| 2021 | 0:23:13 | 3:43:26 | 9:20:02 | 7:07:03 |
| Birmingham West | P1 | P2 | P3 | P4 |
| 2019 | 0:22:30 | 10:42:28 | 40:29:53 | 0:22:30 |
| 2020 | 0:22:39 | 7:42:58 | 23:08:07 | 0:22:39 |
| 2021 | 0:26:18 | 9:54:09 | 33:21:46 | 0:26:18 |
| Coventry | P1 | P2 | P3 | P4 |
| 2019 | 0:16:13 | 4:41:01 | 14:33:43 | 41:01:08 |
| 2020 | 0:17:31 | 4:33:17 | 18:25:05 | 22:27:40 |
| 2021 | 0:19:29 | 5:51:39 | 26:28:02 | 33:10:19 |
| Dudley | P1 | P2 | P3 | P4 |
| 2019 | 0:21:50 | 9:16:35 | 25:27:21 | 29:27:43 |
| 2020 | 0:21:12 | 5:50:19 | 15:15:10 | 24:15:54 |
| 2021 | 0:25:13 | 7:04:33 | 26:02:12 | 29:29:57 |
| Solihull | P1 | P2 | P3 | P4 |
| 2019 | 0:18:30 | 3:37:16 | 12:39:30 | 34:10:31 |
| 2020 | 0:18:06 | 3:00:12 | 10:34:27 | 26:55:48 |
| 2021 | 0:20:16 | 3:09:59 | 17:02:33 | 22:03:56 |
| Sandwell | P1 | P2 | P3 | P4 |
| 2019 | 0:21:32 | 11:20:39 | 31:47:16 | 35:03:11 |
| 2020 | 0:24:40 | 8:00:02 | 14:55:29 | 26:42:14 |
| 2021 | 0:27:46 | 8:16:05 | 31:48:11 | 30:16:00 |
| Walsall | P1 | P2 | P3 | P4 |
| 2019 | 0:20:22 | 8:56:52 | 28:51:53 | 33:21:34 |
| 2020 | 0:21:11 | 5:48:43 | 13:32:33 | 28:38:10 |
| 2021 | 0:22:23 | 4:46:18 | 17:32:24 | 16:26:46 |
| Wolverhampton | P1 | P2 | P3 | P4 |
| 2019 | 0:18:22 | 6:02:08 | 19:13:23 | 24:49:08 |
| 2020 | 0:21:11 | 2:55:01 | 5:20:55 | 12:44:14 |
| 2021 | 0:22:02 | 3:01:43 | 6:15:44 | 9:46:59 |
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