Here's How Long It Takes For Police To Send Help Downtown

FINANCIAL DISTRICT, NY — The time it takes Lower Manhattan's officers to be assigned to a possible crime-in-progress is higher than the citywide average, a new report shows.

The Independent Budget Office mapped how long it takes officers to be assigned to a possible crime-in-progress — known as the "dispatch time" — across all the city's precincts. This differs from the time it takes officers to arrive to a scene, which is data that is not released by the city, per IBO.

The IBO found the First Precinct — which covers the Financial District, Tribeca and Battery Park City — had the slowest dispatch time in Downtown Manhattan.

Last year, the First Precinct had a dispatch time of 4 minutes, among the longest in Downtown Manhattan and above the citywide average of 3.8 minutes.

Here's the average dispatch times for Manhattan's downtown precincts:

• First Precinct: Financial District, Battery Park City, Tribeca — 4 minutes
• Fifth Precinct: Lower East Side, Chinatown — 3.07 minutes
• Sixth Precinct: West Village, SoHo— 2.58 minutes
• Seventh Precinct: Lower East Side, Two Bridges— 2.95 minutes
• Ninth Precinct: East Village, Alphabet City — 2.3 minutes
• 10th Precinct: Chelsea, Hell's Kitchen — 2.62 minutes
• 13th Precinct: Chelsea, Gramercy, Stuyvesant Town, — 3.42 minutes

But compared to some precincts, even the First Precinct is fares better than other neighborhoods across the city.

Manhattan's highest dispatch time was nearly seven minutes in the Midtown North Precinct, which covers Clinton and parts of Midtown. In the Midtown South Precinct, the dispatch time was 5.05 minutes, according to the IBO report.

Of the nine precincts with the slowest dispatch times, the Bronx had six, the IBO says. The 47th Precinct in the Bronx had a dispatch time of about eight minutes. Bronx's average dispatch time was 5.6 minutes — below the citywide average of 3.8 minutes, according to the report.

The NYPD's responses to crimes-in-progress and critical crimes-in-progress has decreased each year since 2014, police spokeswoman Sgt. Jessica McRorie said in response to the report.

"Reducing response times to 911 calls is a priority of the NYPD so officers can provide assistance, initiate an investigation or render aide," McRorie said in a statement. "Safety is a shared responsibility and we encourage individuals to call 911 when there is an emergency. The NYPD will continue to work closely with members of the community in order to make every New York City neighborhood safe."

Click here to see the full IBO report.