Comments on: Hyperlocal government data gets debate on crime going – open data case study http://talkaboutlocal.org.uk/hyperlocal-government-data-gets-debate-on-crime-going-open-data-case-study/ Mon, 21 May 2012 14:40:54 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.2 By: James Munro http://talkaboutlocal.org.uk/hyperlocal-government-data-gets-debate-on-crime-going-open-data-case-study/comment-page-1/#comment-1057 James Munro Thu, 25 Feb 2010 21:21:22 +0000 http://talkaboutlocal.org/?p=660#comment-1057 Bit late responding to this post, but here goes: the key issue here is to distinguish between incidents, calls and ambulance journeys. It has been know for years in the ambulance service that one incident may generate many calls, and indeed also more than one journey (for example, if there are multiple casualties). AFAIK, the trend in recent years has been for the call:incident ratio to rise, at least for public incidents, because of the spread of mobile phones. Dramatic and obvious incidents may result in multiple 999 calls from onlookers. So, before even starting to analyse causes, you should ask a different question: there may have been a rise in calls, but was there a rise in incidents? Bit late responding to this post, but here goes: the key issue here is to distinguish between incidents, calls and ambulance journeys.
It has been know for years in the ambulance service that one incident may generate many calls, and indeed also more than one journey (for example, if there are multiple casualties).
AFAIK, the trend in recent years has been for the call:incident ratio to rise, at least for public incidents, because of the spread of mobile phones. Dramatic and obvious incidents may result in multiple 999 calls from onlookers.
So, before even starting to analyse causes, you should ask a different question: there may have been a rise in calls, but was there a rise in incidents?

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