diff --git a/README.md b/README.md
index d7ae31893..10fef7059 100644
--- a/README.md
+++ b/README.md
@@ -522,6 +522,7 @@ a string and determines the type of message. Currently the following commands ar
 * play media
 * stop media
 * play DTMF
+* statistics
 
 The response dictionary must contain at least one key called `result`. The value can be either `ok` or `error`.
 For the `ping` command, the additional value `pong` is allowed. If the result is `error`, then another key
@@ -1672,3 +1673,108 @@ received during a generated DTMF event will be suppressed.
 The call must be marked for DTMF injection using the `inject DTMF` flag used in both `offer` and `answer`
 messages. Enabling this flag forces all audio to go through the transcoding engine, even if input and output
 codecs are the same (similar to DTMF transcoding, see above).
+
+`statistics` Message
+--------------------
+
+Returns a set of general statistics metrics with identical content and format as the `list jsonstats` CLI
+command. Sample return dictionary:
+
+	{
+	  "statistics": {
+	    "currentstatistics": {
+	      "sessionsown": 0,
+	      "sessionsforeign": 0,
+	      "sessionstotal": 0,
+	      "transcodedmedia": 0,
+	      "packetrate": 0,
+	      "byterate": 0,
+	      "errorrate": 0
+	    },
+	    "totalstatistics": {
+	      "uptime": "18",
+	      "managedsessions": 0,
+	      "rejectedsessions": 0,
+	      "timeoutsessions": 0,
+	      "silenttimeoutsessions": 0,
+	      "finaltimeoutsessions": 0,
+	      "offertimeoutsessions": 0,
+	      "regularterminatedsessions": 0,
+	      "forcedterminatedsessions": 0,
+	      "relayedpackets": 0,
+	      "relayedpacketerrors": 0,
+	      "zerowaystreams": 0,
+	      "onewaystreams": 0,
+	      "avgcallduration": "0.000000"
+	    },
+	    "intervalstatistics": {
+	      "totalcallsduration": "0.000000",
+	      "minmanagedsessions": 0,
+	      "maxmanagedsessions": 0,
+	      "minofferdelay": "0.000000",
+	      "maxofferdelay": "0.000000",
+	      "avgofferdelay": "0.000000",
+	      "minanswerdelay": "0.000000",
+	      "maxanswerdelay": "0.000000",
+	      "avganswerdelay": "0.000000",
+	      "mindeletedelay": "0.000000",
+	      "maxdeletedelay": "0.000000",
+	      "avgdeletedelay": "0.000000",
+	      "minofferrequestrate": 0,
+	      "maxofferrequestrate": 0,
+	      "avgofferrequestrate": 0,
+	      "minanswerrequestrate": 0,
+	      "maxanswerrequestrate": 0,
+	      "avganswerrequestrate": 0,
+	      "mindeleterequestrate": 0,
+	      "maxdeleterequestrate": 0,
+	      "avgdeleterequestrate": 0
+	    },
+	    "controlstatistics": {
+	      "proxies": [
+		{
+		  "proxy": "127.0.0.1",
+		  "pingcount": 0,
+		  "offercount": 0,
+		  "answercount": 0,
+		  "deletecount": 0,
+		  "querycount": 0,
+		  "listcount": 0,
+		  "startreccount": 0,
+		  "stopreccount": 0,
+		  "startfwdcount": 0,
+		  "stopfwdcount": 0,
+		  "blkdtmfcount": 0,
+		  "unblkdtmfcount": 0,
+		  "blkmedia": 0,
+		  "unblkmedia": 0,
+		  "playmedia": 0,
+		  "stopmedia": 0,
+		  "playdtmf": 0,
+		  "statistics": 0,
+		  "errorcount": 0
+		}
+	      ],
+	      "totalpingcount": 0,
+	      "totaloffercount": 0,
+	      "totalanswercount": 0,
+	      "totaldeletecount": 0,
+	      "totalquerycount": 0,
+	      "totallistcount": 0,
+	      "totalstartreccount": 0,
+	      "totalstopreccount": 0,
+	      "totalstartfwdcount": 0,
+	      "totalstopfwdcount": 0,
+	      "totalblkdtmfcount": 0,
+	      "totalunblkdtmfcount": 0,
+	      "totalblkmedia": 0,
+	      "totalunblkmedia": 0,
+	      "totalplaymedia": 0,
+	      "totalstopmedia": 0,
+	      "totalplaydtmf": 0,
+	      "totalstatistics": 0,
+	      "totalerrorcount": 0
+	    }
+	  },
+	  "result": "ok"
+	}
diff --git a/daemon/control_ng.c b/daemon/control_ng.c
index b96199044..edac69cb8 100644
--- a/daemon/control_ng.c
+++ b/daemon/control_ng.c
@@ -15,6 +15,7 @@
 #include "socket.h"
 #include "log_funcs.h"
 #include "main.h"
+#include "statistics.h"
 
 
 mutex_t rtpe_cngs_lock;
@@ -260,6 +261,10 @@ static void control_ng_incoming(struct obj *obj, str *buf, const endpoint_t *sin
 			errstr = call_play_dtmf_ng(dict, resp);
 			g_atomic_int_inc(&cur->play_dtmf);
 			break;
+		case CSH_LOOKUP("statistics"):
+			errstr = statistics_ng(dict, resp);
+			g_atomic_int_inc(&cur->statistics);
+			break;
 		default:
 			errstr = "Unrecognized command";
 	}
diff --git a/daemon/statistics.c b/daemon/statistics.c
index ee683e33e..9f3aa0ff1 100644
--- a/daemon/statistics.c
+++ b/daemon/statistics.c
@@ -521,6 +521,7 @@ GQueue *statistics_gather_metrics(void) {
 		total.play_media += cur->play_media;
 		total.stop_media += cur->stop_media;
 		total.play_dtmf += cur->play_dtmf;
+		total.statistics += cur->statistics;
 		total.errors += cur->errors;
 		HEADER("{", NULL);
 		METRICsva("proxy", "\"%s\"", sockaddr_print_buf(&cur->proxy));
@@ -541,6 +542,7 @@ GQueue *statistics_gather_metrics(void) {
 		METRICs("playmedia", "%u", cur->play_media);
 		METRICs("stopmedia", "%u", cur->stop_media);
 		METRICs("playdtmf", "%u", cur->play_dtmf);
+		METRICs("statistics", "%u", cur->statistics);
 		METRICs("errorcount", "%u", cur->errors);
 		HEADER("}", NULL);
 
@@ -567,6 +569,7 @@ GQueue *statistics_gather_metrics(void) {
 	METRICs("totalplaymedia", "%u", total.play_media);
 	METRICs("totalstopmedia", "%u", total.stop_media);
 	METRICs("totalplaydtmf", "%u", total.play_dtmf);
+	METRICs("totalstatistics", "%u", total.statistics);
 	METRICs("totalerrorcount", "%u", total.errors);
 
 	HEADER("}", "");
@@ -613,3 +616,74 @@ void statistics_init() {
 	mutex_init(&rtpe_codec_stats_lock);
 	rtpe_codec_stats = g_hash_table_new(g_str_hash, g_str_equal);
 }
+
+const char *statistics_ng(bencode_item_t *input, bencode_item_t *output) {
+	AUTO_CLEANUP_INIT(GQueue *metrics, statistics_free_metrics, statistics_gather_metrics());
+	AUTO_CLEANUP_INIT(GQueue bstack, g_queue_clear, G_QUEUE_INIT);
+
+	bencode_item_t *dict = output;
+	const char *sub_label = "statistics"; // top level
+	bencode_buffer_t *buf = output->buffer;
+
+	for (GList *l = metrics->head; l; l = l->next) {
+		struct stats_metric *m = l->data;
+		if (!m->label)
+			continue;
+
+		// key:value entry?
+		if (m->value_short) {
+			if (m->is_int)
+				bencode_dictionary_add_integer(dict, bencode_strdup(buf, m->label),
+						m->int_value);
+			else {
+				size_t len = strlen(m->value_short);
+				if (len >= 2 && m->value_short[0] == '"' && m->value_short[len-1] == '"')
+					bencode_dictionary_add(dict, bencode_strdup(buf, m->label),
+							bencode_string_len_dup(buf, m->value_short+1, len-2));
+				else
+					bencode_dictionary_add_string_dup(dict, bencode_strdup(buf, m->label),
+							m->value_short);
+			}
+			continue;
+		}
+
+		// list or dict end?
+		if (m->is_close_bracket) {
+			dict = g_queue_pop_tail(&bstack);
+			assert(dict != NULL);
+			continue;
+		}
+
+		// label without value precedes an immediate sub-entry, so save the label
+		if (!m->is_bracket) {
+			assert(sub_label == NULL);
+			sub_label = m->label;
+			continue;
+		}
+
+		// open bracket of some sort - new sub-entry follows
+		bencode_item_t *sub = NULL;
+		if (m->is_brace)
+			sub = bencode_dictionary(buf);
+		else
+			sub = bencode_list(buf);
+
+		assert(sub != NULL);
+
+		// is this a dictionary?
+		if (dict->type == BENCODE_DICTIONARY) {
+			assert(sub_label != NULL);
+			bencode_dictionary_add(dict, bencode_strdup(buf, sub_label), sub);
+		}
+		else if (dict->type == BENCODE_LIST)
+			bencode_list_add(dict, sub);
+		else
+			abort();
+
+		sub_label = NULL;
+		g_queue_push_tail(&bstack, dict);
+		dict = sub;
+	}
+
+	return NULL;
+}
diff --git a/include/bencode.h b/include/bencode.h
index 2bcf24ec7..fb7a1efc5 100644
--- a/include/bencode.h
+++ b/include/bencode.h
@@ -86,6 +86,9 @@ void bencode_buffer_destroy_add(bencode_buffer_t *buf, free_func_t, void *);
 /* Returns the buffer associated with an item, or NULL if pointer given is NULL */
 INLINE bencode_buffer_t *bencode_item_buffer(bencode_item_t *);
 
+/* like strdup() but uses the bencode buffer to store the string */
+INLINE char *bencode_strdup(bencode_buffer_t *, const char *);
+
 
 
 
@@ -373,6 +376,12 @@ INLINE bencode_item_t *bencode_str_dup(bencode_buffer_t *buf, const str *s) {
 	return bencode_string_len_dup(buf, s->s, s->len);
 }
 
+INLINE char *bencode_strdup(bencode_buffer_t *buf, const char *s) {
+	char *ret = bencode_buffer_alloc(buf, strlen(s) + 1);
+	strcpy(ret, s);
+	return ret;
+}
+
 INLINE bencode_item_t *bencode_dictionary_add(bencode_item_t *dict, const char *key, bencode_item_t *val) {
 	if (!key)
 		return NULL;
diff --git a/include/control_ng.h b/include/control_ng.h
index c0003374b..21d9d2e0a 100644
--- a/include/control_ng.h
+++ b/include/control_ng.h
@@ -28,6 +28,7 @@ struct control_ng_stats {
 	int play_media;
 	int stop_media;
 	int play_dtmf;
+	int statistics;
 	int errors;
 };
 
diff --git a/include/statistics.h b/include/statistics.h
index 7fcd0cafb..17d211c0c 100644
--- a/include/statistics.h
+++ b/include/statistics.h
@@ -2,6 +2,7 @@
 #define STATISTICS_H_
 
 #include "aux.h"
+#include "bencode.h"
 
 struct call;
 struct packet_stream;
@@ -126,6 +127,7 @@ void statistics_update_totals(struct packet_stream *) ;
 
 GQueue *statistics_gather_metrics(void);
 void statistics_free_metrics(GQueue **);
+const char *statistics_ng(bencode_item_t *input, bencode_item_t *output);
 
 void statistics_init(void);