Long waits and no response

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I certainly agree with your editorial about police phone delays.

I remember my daughter trying to call the non-emergency police line to report her mobile phone stolen as she needed a crime number to claim off her insurance.

While the initial call was answered fairly quickly, she then waited for well over 40 minutes and then got cut off!

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Also my wife tried to report an attempted scam over car parking at Conquest Hospital when I was in for an operation some 18 months ago. Again she waited but no response. Even on-line reporting took her to a web site which only wanted to know what type of scam it was using a tick box.

The Sussex Police and Crime Commissioner claims that the police call centres are not achieving their targets. Yes, 2,500 calls a day is a huge number requiring police assistance of some sort but to have 382 people answering these calls is jaw-dropping.

This equates to less than seven calls each per day, or on an eight-hour shift less than one call per hour!

Obviously it is not as simple as that, but it seems to me an extremely good place to start.

I D Tomisson