Emergency Services Control Centre alarm button (FOI)

​Request

A

Please confirm how many times, over the last two years, paramedics in the field have activated the orange (emergency) button alarm within their radio system to notify the Emergency Services Control Centre (ESCC) that they need assistance? 

B

Please confirm how many times over the past two years, following the activation of this button, the ESCC has arranged for States of Jersey Police (SoJP) attendance? 

C

Please advise the number of occasions that police officers were deployed on a Grade 1 response? 

D

Please advise the number of these occasions that police officers arrived within seven minutes in town or ten minutes for the rest of the island? 

E

On how many of these occasions was an arrest made?

Response

A and B

This information is not held in recorded form. To provide an answer to the request would require extraction and manipulation of data to produce new information.

A Scheduled Public Authority is not required to manipulate and create new data sets. It has been estimated that the cost of extracting the data would exceed the cost limit provisions set out in the Freedom of Information (Costs) (Jersey) Regulations 2014. Article 3 of the Freedom of Information (Jersey) Law 2011 applies.

C, D and E

The States of Jersey Police is unable to respond to these questions without specific details of the numbers involved from part A.  The radio service provider has been asked to support the extraction of statistics such as these going forward. 

​Article applied

Article 3 - Meaning of “information held by a public authority”

For the purposes of this Law, information is held by a public authority if –

(a)     it is held by the authority, otherwise than on behalf of another person; or

(b)     it is held by another person on behalf of the authority.​