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report on the response time of emergency services in the district is revealing some major problems tonight this just weeks after an injured police officer waited for more than 20 minutes for an ambulance to arrive d.c bureau chief sam ford has the story if they were available why weren't they dispatched i think that's the question we have to ask communications why weren't these two units dispatched units don't self-dispatch on calls ambulance union president kenneth lyons told us today that the crews of the two ambulances in question that he represents were monitoring the dispatch channel two weeks ago when the d.c police officer was struck in a hit and run on his motorcycle and lay on the ground 20 minutes until an ambulance from maryland came to get him the two units were in a delay status he said but could have been called they were not dispatched on the call just because you hear a call go out especially during a busy time of day we are not allowed to self-dispatch the leak report