Police Scotland among worst forces in UK for 999 response times, data reveals

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Police Scotland among worst forces in UK for 999 response times, data reveals
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Scotland's national police force ranked second worst in one table and 11th worst in another - out of 44 forces.

Police Scotland has ranked as the second worst police force in the whole of the UK for emergency phone call response times, a new study has shown.

And the amount of time it takes Police Scotland's call handlers to answer calls also got worse over the time periods, falling by a whopping 20%. Join the Daily Record's WhatsApp community hereand get the latest news sent straight to your messages. Bedfordshire Police had the slowest response time of any force in the UK at 30.56 seconds. No forces are meeting the official national target of answering 90 per cent of their 999 calls within 10 seconds.

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