Brickbat: We'll Get Around to It

Most British police departments have a goal of responding to Grade 2 calls, defined as serious incidents that require a police response but aren't life-threatening, within one hour . But just 10 of the 29 police departments that responded to Freedom of Information requests by the Liberal Democrats , the U.K. political party, met that goal. The average response time for Grade 2 calls, which include burglaries and missing person reports, rose from one hour and 48 minutes in 2020 to three hours and 12 minutes in 2022 . In Birmingham West , the average response time in 2022 was 13 and a half hours ..