Our 2024/25 performance dashboard: Outcomes

88.7% of all incidents attended by an NPAS crew in 2024/25 resulted in a positive outcome.

This equates to 1,376 missing or vulnerable people found, 4,224 suspects apprehended and 1,987 vehicles located, as a direct result of, or assisted by, air support.

Our skilled team of dispatchers, based in our dedicated Operations Centre at West Yorkshire Police headquarters, assesses each call for the appropriate response.

In 2024/25, our aircraft crews attended 2,720 priority one incidents.

These are when there is an immediate threat to a life, a crime is in action or there is a national or terrorism incident.

The average time to deploy an aircraft from receiving the initial call was five minutes and 41 seconds and to reach a scene was 12 minutes and 17 seconds - just 15 seconds slower than the previous year).

A further 11,408 priority two incidents were attended, with the average time to reach the scene being 18 minutes and 53 seconds - an improvement on the response rate of 20 minutes recorded in 2023/24.

NPAS achieved the Service Level Agreement set out by police forces in meeting average response times for deployments to priority one and priority two incidents.