Over 2,500 emergency calls made in July

Emergency Services Joint Control Room release monthly round-up

Over 2,500 emergency calls were made during July, with an average answer time of 1.5 seconds.

New figures have been released by the Emergency Services Joint Control Room.

They reveal 2595 calls were made in total last month.

There were a total of 1,213 events, 1,256 ambulance events and 126 events.

In terms of radio transmissions - that's the technology emergency service personnel use to communicate with each other - July saw 125,696.