COMHAIRLE CONTAE ÁTHA CLIATH THEAS
SOUTH DUBLIN COUNTY COUNCIL
MEETING OF SOUTH DUBLIN COUNTY COUNCIL
Monday, November 11, 2019
QUESTION NO. 3
QUESTION: Councillor E. Higgins
To ask the Chief Executive for the following information:
The number of hoax or malicious calls to the Fire Brigade in the years 2017, 2018 and 2019 to date.
How many of these hoax calls were reported to gardaí?
How many resulted in a prosecution?
REPLY:
Dublin Fire Brigade (DFB) log incidents as either reporting “False Alarm, Good Intent” (FAGI) or as “Malicious False Alarm’s” (MFA).
The following are the recorded figures of both FAGI & MFA incidents since 2017 up to the 25th of October 2019.
In incidents reported as MFA, DFB reported or informed An Garda Síochána (AGS) on the indicated number of occasions.
The figures in brackets relate to SDCC only.
|
|
2017 |
2018 |
2019 |
|
FAGI |
436 (61) |
1032 (147) |
906 (134) |
|
MFA |
81 (19) |
99 (26) |
95 (28) |
|
MFA Reported AGS |
12 (1) |
32 (4) |
22 (3) |
DFB do not have records on prosecutions for these incidents as these would be dealt with by An Garda Siochana.