We are asking Londoners and visitors to the capital to use our services wisely as we prepare for a busy Bank Holiday.
This August could be the busiest one ever for the Service and the high demand is expected to continue this weekend, when we are putting extra resources out on the roads and in our control rooms.
Since the start of the summer the Service has been consistently receiving more than 6,000 999 calls every day, and on some busier days that has risen to more than 7,000 calls. Before the pandemic, a usual busy day would be around 5,500 calls.
A number of factors are thought contributing to this demand – including increased COVID-19 transmission in the community, more people being out and about as lockdown restrictions eased, and more people coming in and out of London.
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