A police force has seen an increase in the number of 999 calls it receives, despite more of a focus on digital communications ...

The Metropolitan Police is falling short on its aim of answering 90% of emergency calls within 10 seconds, a government watchdog has found. The Met's mid-year review indicated 78% of calls were ...

Ambulance service call handlers have described how they dealt with "unprecedented" numbers of 999 calls. South East Coast Ambulance Service (Secamb) dealt with 22,500 calls between 5 and 11 January, ...

The ambulance service wants people to use common sense when calling 999.

The 999 call made by a man jointly accused of the murder of a baby in Staffordshire has been played in court.

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Secamb said by calling 999 the public were not automatically going to get an ambulance [Mark Norman BBC] Ambulance service call ...