Your guide to contacting the constabulary

Contact Methods

General guidance

The general guidance for contacting us is:

• If you require immediate police attendance because someone is in danger or the situation could escalate, always dial 999.
• If you don't need police to attend straight away, this is classed as a non-emergency and you have a few options of how you can contact us:
• If you want to report a non-urgent crime, you can fill in one of our online report forms. 
• If you want advice or guidance about a non-urgent issue, you can speak to operators using live web chat. You can also report non-urgent crime on web chat. 
• If you want to report a non-urgent crime or seek advice / guidance but you do not have online access, you can call 101. (Please note that during busy periods, you may have to wait on the line for an available operator).