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Police
Mr. Stewart Jackson: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department how many (a) front line police officers and (b) police officers in total there were in (i) the Northern Division, (ii) Central Division and (iii) Southern Division of Cambridgeshire Constabulary in each year from 1997 to 2005. [95408]
Mr. McNulty [holding answer 20 October 2006]: I understand this an operational matter for Cambridgeshire Constabulary, however, the relevant data are contained in the table.
| Police officer strength (FTE)( 1) by function type( 2) for Cambridgeshire Constabulary( 3) as at 31 March 2003 to 31 March 2006( 4) | ||||
| Operational support | Operational | Organisational Support | Total | |
| (1). Full time equivalent. This figure includes those on career breaks or maternity/paternity leave. (2). Recorded functions are “Operational”, “Operational support” and “Organisational support”. (3). Data available at the basic command unit level. (4). Data not available prior to 2002-03 | ||||
Mr. Stewart Jackson: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department what has been the cost to the public purse of the Cambridgeshire Police Authority’s Equality Scheme since 31 May 2005; and if he will make a statement. [95765]
Mr. McNulty [holding answer 20 October 2006]: This is a matter for the chief constable.
Harry Cohen: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department what progress has been made in negotiations on pay for police officers. [95784]
Mr. McNulty: The 2006 police officer pay award is now subject to arbitration.
Mr. Laws: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department how much was spent on the Police Pension Scheme in each year since 1980-81; what forecasts he has made of how much will be spent in each year between 2007-08 and 2050-51; how many members of the scheme there are; and if he will make a statement. [96000]
Mr. McNulty: The administration of the Police Pension Schemes is the responsibility of individual police authorities.
Mr. Gordon Prentice: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department how many police officers have faced disciplinary procedures for negligence or oversight in investigating a crime and following up leads with diligence in each year since 2000. [97184]
Mr. McNulty: The statistics for negligence or oversight in investigating a crime and following up leads with diligence are not specifically captured or held centrally.
However, Police Complaints statistics for England and Wales up to 31 March 2004 are available on the Home Office website (www.homeoffice.gov.uk/rds). With effect from 1 April 2004, the responsibility for the guardianship of the police complaints system and the collation and publication of these statistics passed to the Independent Police Complaints Commission and they are available on (www.ipcc.gov.uk/index/resources/research/stats).
Mr. Laws: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department what estimate he has made of average increases in the police precept for English police forces in 2007-08; and if he will make a statement. [98124]
Mr. McNulty: It is for the relevant authorities to set the police precept for 2007-08.
Mr. Jim Cunningham: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department if he will make a statement on the implementation of neighbourhood policing in Coventry South. [97161]
Mr. McNulty: There are currently 10 dedicated teams in the M2 operational command unit which covers the Coventry South parliamentary constituency.
West Midlands police are on target to introduce neighbourhood policing to every community by April 2007, and to ensure that every community has an embedded neighbourhood policing team by April 2008.
Mr. Ruffley: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department how many traffic police officers there were in (a) Suffolk, (b) Bedfordshire, (c) Cambridgeshire, (d) Essex, (e) Hertfordshire and (f) Norfolk in each year since 1997. [95541]
Mr. McNulty: I understand this is an operational matter for the police constabularies concerned. However, the relevant data are contained in the following table.
| Police officers whose primary function is traffic as at 31 March 2003 to 31 March 2006 (FTE)( 1,2) | ||||
| 31 March 2003 | 31 March 2004 | 31 March 2005 | 31 March 2006 | |
| (1) Full time equivalent. This figure includes those on career breaks or maternity/paternity leave. (2) Data not available prior to 2002-03. | ||||
Mr. Hoyle: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department how many traffic police officers there were in Lancashire in each year since 1997. [96342]
Mr. McNulty [holding answer 20 October 2006]: I understands this is an operational matter for the chief constable of Lancashire. However, the relevant data are contained in the following table.
| Police officers whose primary function is traffic as at 31 March 2003 to 31 March 2006 (FTE)( 1,2) | |
| Lancashire | Number |
| (1) Full time equivalent. This figure includes those on career breaks or maternity/paternity leave. (2) Data not available prior to 2002-03. | |
Professional Standards Investigations
Mr. Watson: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department how many people involved in professional standards department investigations in the last 12 months are (a) white and (b) from black or minority ethnic backgrounds. [97528]
Mr. McNulty: The statistics for the ethnicity of police staff involved in professional standards department investigations is not specifically captured or held centrally.
However, police complaints statistics for England and Wales up to 31 March 2004 are available on the
Home Office website (www.homeoffice.gov.uk/rds). With effect from 1 April 2004, the responsibility for the guardianship of the police complaints system and the collation and publication of these statistics passed to the Independent Police Complaints Commission and they are available on: www.ipcc.gov.uk/index/resources/research/stats).
Psychiatric Units
Mr. Curry:
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department how many places are available in
medium secure psychiatric units in each county of England and Wales; and what each figure represents per 100,000 population. [93959]
Ms Rosie Winterton: I have been asked to reply.
The information available centrally does not identify medium secure psychiatric unit places separately, but the following table gives the average daily number of available beds for adults, excluding the elderly, in all secure mental illness and secure learning disability wards for 2005-06. The figures are broken down by strategic health authority (SHA) rather than by county.
| SHA | Mental illness: other ages: secure unit | Learning disabilities: other ages: secure unit | Population | Secure unit beds per 100,000 population (mental health and learning disability) |
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