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It should be noted that response times are now derived from the time AFP Communications receives advice of an incident, to arrival at the scene by the police vehicle which has been given the primary responsibility for the incident. At times this can be a specialist vehicle such as an accident, special operations or bomb squad vehicle. This vehicle is also responsible for the. computer recording of the incident. However, in nearly all incidents, a further police vehicle which may be in,the vicinity of the incident, will attend immediately to determine the appropriate action to be taken such as rescue or re-direction of traffic. As a consequence, the response times listed below do not accurately reflect the actual time it takes for the first police vehicle to arrive at the scene, which can be between two and eight minutes, depending on their location at the time of the incident.
Average response times for police vehicles can only be calculated on a 24 hour period basis and there is no breakdown between day and night. However, response times are broken down into priority 1, 2 and 3 incidents. Times are then further broken down into receipt of advice to arrival at scene; receipt to dispatch; dispatch to arrival at scene; and arrival to departure from scene.
The most relevant time is receipt to arrival at scene and the following statistics are provided for this period:
Priority 1 Priority 2 Priority 3
(minutes) (minutes) (minutes)
a) Canberra 14 19 23
(as a whole)
b) South District 13 19 24
c) North District 13 18 23
Following regionalization of police services in the ACT,
Woden and Tuggeranong patrol areas were amalgamated and became known as South District. There is no specific breakdown of response times for Tuggeranong as such.
3. The Computerised On-line Policing System (COPS) was introduced on 29 March 1989 and allows for statistical reporting of incidents and offences. Statistics prior to this date would need to be manually extracted. As the task of obtaining such figures would be a costly, time consuming and labour intensive exercise, statistics for the Civic shopping area, including the Bus Interchange and Civic night clubs, have been confined to the following periods:
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