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Broadly speaking, which emergency service has the fastest response time?
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For more on marking an answer as the "Best Answer", please visit our FAQ.Lonnie - thre are many criticisms that can be levelled at the emergency services, some justified and some not. One of the reasons that the fire service have the best attendance times (by no means the only reason) is that they spend most of their time being instantly available. The police and the ambulances on the other hand spend most of their time dealing with incidents. Elsewhere in Answerbank I said that I had read the personal record of a police officer who was reported on in 1939. He was described as hard working and zealous. The amount of work that he did in that year is done by a modern police officer in four days.
In an ideal world, each police station would be filled with officers waiting to be allocated to jobs. In reality, when they arrive at an incident, there are probably half a dozen other calls awaiting their attention.
Just to clarify, "the fire service spend most of their time being instantly available," even when we are doing other jobs such as home fire safety visits or training we are still "on the run."
The only time an appliance is unavailable is when they are dealing with an incident, or taking part in a major exercise. In this case other pumps will be ordered to standby in that station's area