Question follow-through · 122539
Emergency Services: Standards
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, whether police and fire call handlers are required to have working knowledge of (a) What Three Words and (b) the NATO phonetic alphabet.
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- Answering body
- Home Office
- Tabled
- 20 Mar 2026
- Target answer date
- 24 Mar 2026
- Answer
- 27 Mar 2026 · 7 calendar days after tabling
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Recorded timeline
20 Mar 2026
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, whether police and fire call handlers are required to have working knowledge of (a) What Three Words and (b) the NATO phonetic alphabet.
24 Mar 2026
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
27 Mar 2026
Answer published
Police Call Handlers are not required to have working knowledge of What Three Words and the Nato Phonetic Alphabet. This is an operational matter for Chief Constables.For matters regarding the Fire Service, I would direct my Rt Hon friend to the Ministry ...
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
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