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[FOI #8825 email]

Mr Mark Charlesworth

Reference: T4130/9

Dear Mr Charlesworth,

Thank you for your e-mail of 05/03/2009 20:57:55 about 999 calls. Home Office Statistics collect details on the number of 999 calls received by each police force each year:

Number of 999 calls recieved by police force and year

	2002/03	2003/04	2004/05	2005/06	2006/07	2007/08
Avon & Somerset	294,920	287,535	264,556	266,480	344,717	290,600
Bedfordshire	98,058	89,141	94,380	89,623	97,357	99,700
Cambridgeshire	119,826	114,903	127,002	125,637	142,520	142,806
Cheshire	118,584	124,287	161,563	153,818	153,233	146,632
Cleveland	117,371	104,108	103,999	99,179	104,779	104,190
Cumbria	54,911	54,017	56,225	55,002	59,629	58,766
Derbyshire	137,130	139,867	136,104	138,626	159,363	155,505
Devon & Cornwall	249,154	243,453	252,367	252,408	268,763	261,396
Dorset	90,332	96,855	92,592	93,634	85,140	94,421
Durham	67,072	59,327	82,346	85,431	99,623	94,883
Dyfed-Powys	43,890	45,862	46,942	57,975	52,026	46,709
Essex	225,058	253,869	259,694	237,440	265,394	258,882
Gloucestershire	70,218	..	79,400	76,279	467,709	78,263
Greater Manchester	582,243	577,175	519,692	747,224	751,545	650,254
Gwent	78,349	95,206	98,555	97,320	109,401	104,386
Hampshire	273,648	288,830	282,048	275,073	290,987	284,982
Hertfordshire	166,803	175,349	181,259	169,080	168,388	166,416
Humberside	111,102	144,793	148,343	154,598	156,655	154,706
Kent	248,306	247,262	241,675	236,267	234,421	242,194
Lancashire	237,219	255,226	248,035	247,794	266,505	249,028
Leicestershire	160,134	156,984	..	155,602	151,539	148,103
Lincolnshire	88,508	89,440	85,704	83,855	88,617	86,525
London, City of	..	2,283,464	1,983,655	2,166,655	2,282,646	..
Merseyside	332,667	353,178	412,883	363,036	374,864	330,640
Metropolitan Police	2,216,596	2,288,519	2,154,876	2,124,000	2,278,003	2,444,417
Norfolk	102,506	111,465	109,836	102,324	104,119	102,293
Northamptonshire	104,381	121,598	128,496	129,349	117,115	116,005
Northumbria	260,252	278,853	215,932	258,920	264,349	269,816
North Wales	110,597	116,092	110,822	107,322	108,884	107,334
North Yorkshire	82,895	89,911	84,460	89,329	97,884	93,902
Nottinghamshire	346,680	296,663	280,882	260,436	265,992	264,515
South Wales	273,301	276,411	..	265,312	292,558	279,760
South Yorkshire	247,052	248,852	294,427	264,318	246,170	238,372
Staffordshire	142,866	155,884	154,534	157,108	167,932	166,868
Suffolk	105,351	110,718	104,445	95,663	100,351	96,836
Surrey	134,538	139,586	141,363	150,942	166,496	156,977
Sussex	260,871	272,396	256,863	255,257	272,173	258,740
Thames Valley	314,661	330,020	354,648	331,222	354,667	333,767
Warwickshire	75,075	80,030	80,032	79,476	87,490	81,869
West Mercia	142,665	148,666	148,731	..	..	136,080
West Midlands	617,531	682,181	661,180	669,615	708,764	679,005
West Yorkshire	480,824	483,959	451,092	436,169	485,859	430,250
Wiltshire	104,669	87,012	101,924	100,162	..	96,893

Data are unvalidated and therefore provided on a provisional basis only
Data collected no behalf of HMIC who may or may not hold more historical or detailed data
.. Data unavailable

To answer the second half of your question, a recorded crime time series can be found on table 2.04 within the publication “Crime in England and Wales 2007/08” at:

http://www.homeoffice.gov.uk/rds/crimeew0708.html

Kind Regards,

Ravi Mulchandani

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Dear Sir or Madam,

Please could you furnish me with how many calls in total were

submitted in England and Wales to 999 and also locally advertised

numbers such as 0845 6060606 where the caller requested an

immediate police response, and how many of those calls resulted in

a unit being despatched immediately. I do not require any monthly

breakdowns or crime type, just total annual figures.

Please break these figures down as follows:

Total 0845 / 999 calls received in 2001-2008

Total number of calls where police were despatched following a 0845

/ 999 call in 2001 - 2008

Please could you also prove details of how many crimes were

recorded in total in England & Wales for each requested year.

Yours faithfully,

Mark Charlesworth

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