Officers called for emergency assistance or pressed the red button from January 2019 to April 2022

Freedom of information request reference no: 01.FOI.22.025561

I note you seek access to the following information:

I am writing to request information about how many times in the last 3 calendar years an officer called for emergency assistance or pressed the red button while on duty.

Please would you send me the figures you have on this for 2019, 2020, 2021 and 2022 broken down by calendar year.

If it is not possible to provide the information requested due to the information exceeding the time or cost limits identified in Section 12, please provide the information in part and chronologically with a priority placed upon 2021 data.

Decision

I have today decided to disclose the located information to you in full.

Please find below information pursuant to your request above.

Please note that information relating to number of activations in 2022 is accurate as of 22 April 2022 as this was when the data was retrieved from the system.

2019	16643
2020	21395
2021	19877
2022	9048