A new report for the city of Ottawa's Emergency Preparedness and Protective Services Committee shows that call volumes to 911 jumped almost 10 per cent in 2022 compared to the year before.
It marks a trend of increasing 911 calls since the start of the COVID-19 pandemic. Emergency calls dropped by 6.3 per cent in 2020 compared to 2019.
"The City has been working with the Ottawa Police Service to assess the rationale behind the decrease in service standard. For example, call volume statistics are trending upwards again , and in some cases, the nature of the call may require a longer discussion between the caller and the 9-1-1 operator," the report says.
"The Ottawa Police Service is ensuring that it continues to focus on resolving these data issues so that the performance metric related to the minimum standard for answering calls, can be fully validated," the report states.
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