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Mr. McNulty: The available data for the total number of police officers in Gloucestershire and England are given in the tables. The closest available data to cover officers on the streets and in neighbourhood teams are in terms of officers primarily employed within the function foot/car/beat patrol. These data for Gloucestershire and England are also given in the tables.
Police officer strength in Gloucestershire as at 31 March 1997 and 31 March 2006 (FTE)( 1) | ||
1997 | 2006 | |
(1) Full-Time Equivalent figures rounded to the nearest whole number. This figure includes those on career breaks or maternity/paternity leave. (2) Staff with multiple responsibilities (or designations) are recorded under their primary role or function. The deployment of police officers is an operational matter for individual Chief Constables. (3) Overall force totals including those on career breaks or maternity/paternity leave. The data in the function breakdown is from unpublished sources and therefore totals may not match totals found in the published data. (4) Data for 1996-97 are not available. |
Police officer strength in England as at 31 March 1997 and 31 March 2006 (FTE)( 1) | ||
1997 | 2006 | |
(1.)Full-Time Equivalent figures rounded to the nearest whole number. This figure includes those on career breaks or maternity/paternity leave. (2) Staff with multiple responsibilities (or designations) are recorded under their primary role or function. The deployment of police officers is an operational matter for individual Chief Constables. (3) Overall force totals including those on career breaks or maternity/paternity leave. The data in the function breakdown is from unpublished sources and therefore totals may not match totals found in the published data. (4) Data for 1996-97 are not available. |
Philip Davies: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department in what circumstances police cells in West Yorkshire would be used to house prisoners to relieve prison overcrowding. [100968]
Mr. Sutcliffe: In the event of increasing prisoner population pressures in the West Yorkshire area, West Yorkshire police would be asked whether accommodation was available for use under Operation Safeguard to relieve prison overcrowding.
Mr. Hoyle: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department (1) how many investigations into officers conduct were undertaken at (a) HMP Wymott and (b) HMP Garth in each of the last three years; [101923]
(2) what the average number of investigations into prison officers conduct per prison in England and Wales was in each of the last three years. [101924]
Mr. Sutcliffe: The average number of investigations registered into the conduct of officers, which include Senior Officer and Principal Officer, for all prisons in England and Wales is set out in the following table:
The average number of investigations registered into the conduct of officers | |||
As at 17 November to 16 November each year: | Wymott | Garth | Average England and Wales( 1) |
(1 )To nearest whole number |
Mr. Hoyle: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department what assessment he has made of the effects of the work-life balance arrangements for prison officers. [101928]
Mr. Sutcliffe: The Prison Service has had a work-life balance policy in place since April 2003. This policy is open to all staff regardless of grade or rank, their working location or their status as parents.
This policy has not been assessed since its implementation, although the Prison Service staff survey tracks perceptions about work-life balance issues.
Dr. Tony Wright: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department how many allegations against prison staff have been made by prisoners since the offence of making a false and malicious allegation was abolished; and how many such allegations have been upheld in this period. [102372]
Mr. Sutcliffe: Details on allegations against staff by prisoners are not held centrally and could be obtained only at disproportionate cost.
Miss McIntosh: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department what strategy he has for dealing with false rape claims. [101662]
Mr. Coaker: Allegations of rape are a matter for the police to investigate in accordance with their internal guidance. Each case must be treated on its own individual merits and investigated thoroughly. It is then for the Crown Prosecution Service (CPS) to decide whether or not to charge and then prosecute if the case fulfils both the evidential and public interest test as set out in the Code for Crown Prosecutors.
There is no evidence to suggest that rates of false allegations for rape are especially high, but where there is evidence that a complaint is false, the police and CPS should consider whether the person who made the allegation should be charged with wasting police time or perverting the course of justice.
Mr. Carmichael: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department how many prosecutions were made of drivers using mobile phones while driving in the most recent period for which figures are available, broken down by police authority area. [102452]
Mr. McNulty: Available information taken from the court proceedings database held by the Office for Criminal Justice Reform for the year 2004 (latest available) is given in the table. As the majority of use of hand-held mobile phone while driving offences are dealt with by the issue of a fixed penalty notice these are also included.
2005 data will be available in 2007.
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