British Transport Police: Stockport Station
The question
To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, if her Department will publish the average response time for British Transport Police at Stockport station in each of the last five financial years.
Answered by Simon Lightwood
British Transport Police (BTP) response times are dependent on the severity of the incident.
BTP have provided the following figures for incidents at Stockport railway station over the last 5 financial years:
Financial year | Immediate* grade incident BTP response time (20 minute target) | Priorityˤ grade incident BTP response time (60 minute target) |
2024/25 | 19 minutes | 25 minutes |
2023/24 | 17 minutes | 19 minutes |
2022/23 | 15 minutes | 32 minutes |
2021/22 | 16 minutes | 29 minutes |
2020/21 | 13 minutes | 20 minutes |
* incidents where there is, or is likely to be, a danger of death, the use of violence, or a serious injury to a person or serious damage to property.
ˤ urgent initial police action is required, but the incident does not meet the threshold for immediate response
Home Office forces will also attend if they are available and are able to arrive at the scene before BTP.
Please note that reduced rail travel in 2020/21 and 2021/22 due to COVID-19, and therefore also reduced numbers of incidents, may have contributed to the reduced response times for those years.
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