Emergency Calls: Hoaxes and False Alarms
(asked on 31st October 2018) - View Source
Question to the Home Office:
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many 999 hoax phone calls have been made in each of the last ten years for which figures are available.
This question was answered on 5th November 2018
The Home Office does not collect this data. Law enforcement, including the handling of 999 calls is an operational matter for the police. It is for elected Police Crime Commissioners and Chief Constables to decide how best to manage their communications and response to the public, and gather the data they need to inform those decisions.