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Operation Street Cred
Mr. Ben Chapman: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department pursuant to his answer of 20 January, Official Report, column 186W, on Operation Street Cred, if he will make a statement on the timescale of review of Operation Street Cred in Wirral. [102687]
Mr. Bob Ainsworth: Further to my right hon. Friend's (John Denham) answer to my right hon. Friend of 20 January 2002, Official Report, column 180W. I am advised by Merseyside police that they have now completed their formal review of Operation Street Cred which shows that it is proving a success. There has been a 16 per cent. decline in youth disorder over the past six months and of the 700 young people who came to the notice of the police for anti-social behaviour only 20 came to notice for a second time and only one for a third time. The Street Cred database will also provide useful information to local agencies dealing with anti-social behaviour and will ensure that young people can be dealt with in the most effective and appropriate way for their own good and that of the community.
Parenting Orders
Chris Ruane: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department how many parenting orders were issued by each local authority in 2001–02. [103397]
Hilary Benn: Figures for Parenting Orders are collected by Youth Offending Teams and are not available by Local Authority area. . The table provides details of the 1,216 Parenting Orders made during the year from April 2001 by Youth Offending Team area in descending order. Parenting Orders made April 2001/ March 2002.
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Police (North Yorkshire)
Hugh Bayley: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department how many uniformed police officers North Yorkshire police employed in (a) 1991, (b) 1997 and (c) 2002. [102645]
Mr. Bob Ainsworth: Information about the number of uniformed police officers is not collected centrally. Total police officer and civilian support staff strength figures for North Yorkshire are given in the following table. The force had a record number of officers at 31 March 2002.
| Police officer strength | Civilian support staff | |
|---|---|---|
| 31 March 1991 | 1,387 | 449 |
| 31 March 1997 | 1,338 | 519 |
| 31 March 2002 | 1,417 | 743 |
Source:
Home Office Statistical Bulletins—Police Service Strength—1997 to 2002 and historical data.
By 31 March 2002, total police service strength in England and Wales had reached the record number of 129,603, on track for the Government's targets of 130,000 by March 2003 and 132,500 in 2004.
Under the Crime Fighting Fund (CFF) recruitment initiative North Yorkshire police were allocated 68 recruits over and above the force's previous recruitment plans for the three years to March 2003. In 2003–04, in addition to funding for the continuing cost of these recruits, a further £23,000 will be available to the force from the Crime Fighting Fund. We estimate that this will allow a strength increase of up to four officers by the end of 2003–04.
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Police Officers (Shootings)
Mr. Blizzard: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department how many police officers were (a) shot at, (b) injured by shootings and (c) killed by shootings in each of the last five years for which figures are available. [103023]
Mr. Bob Ainsworth: Available published figures on the number of recorded crimes by the police in which a police officer on duty was injured by a firearm, are given in the table. Figures for the last five years are recorded on a financial year basis.
| Fatal injury | Injuries | |
|---|---|---|
| 1997–98 | — | 6 |
| 1998–99 | — | 11 |
| 1999–2000 | — | 10 |
| 2000–01 | — | 8 |
| 2001–02 | — | 10 |
1. Details of officers shot at are not available.
2. The figures given in the table may not include only shootings, but injuries due to use of a firearm as a blunt instrument.
3. Figures for firearm crime for 2000–01 have been updated owing to discrepancies discovered when the figures for the number of non-air weapon offences for 2000–01 and 2001–02 by police force area were forwarded to the police.
Police Recruitment
Mr. Gareth Thomas: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department how many people from the Indian community were recruited into each police force in each of the last five years; and if he will make a statement. [103507]
Mr. Bob Ainsworth: The information is not available in the format requested. Figures collated by Her Majesty's Inspectorate of Constabulary break down ethnicity by Asian/Asian British categorisation only and relate to officer strength rather than recruits.
The following table shows the number of these officers in each force at 31 March during the last five years.
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