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Lynne Featherstone: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department how many police community support officers there were in each police force at (a) 1 January 2005, (b) 1 January 2006 and (c) the latest figures available. [106827]

Mr. McNulty: The available data are given in the table. Police strength is collated by financial year and mid-financial year and figures are given as at the last day of the period (31 March and 30 September respectively). As the requested dates do not align with the financial year periods, the strength or a number of periods has been provided. The data are available in the relevant Home Office Statistical Bulletins for Police Service Strength, England and Wales. The most recent publication can be downloaded here: http://www.homeoffice.gov.uk/rds/pdfs06/hosb1306.pdf


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Police community support officer strength (FTE)( 1) by police force in England and Wales as at 30 September 2004 to 31 March 2006
September 2004 March 2005 September 2005 March 2006

Avon and Somerset

82

139

146

130

Bedfordshire

26

37

43

41

Cambridgeshire

56

87

92

101

Cheshire

47

81

77

75

Cleveland

75

98

86

100

Cumbria

6

17

19

17

Derbyshire

0

43

43

42

Devon and Cornwall

57

74

75

74

Dorset

22

47

56

61

Durham

36

69

72

67

Dyfed-Powys

4

25

24

26

Essex

80

179

193

192

Gloucestershire

49

72

62

72

Greater Manchester

198

269

264

251

Gwent

26

77

81

76

Hampshire

0

26

23

30

Hertfordshire

75

98

135

139

Humberside

0

20

20

20

Kent

58

105

103

97

Lancashire

115

161

159

184

Leicestershire

54

103

119

136

Lincolnshire

46

75

78

78

London, City of

0

14

14

11

Merseyside

90

170

161

196

Metropolitan police

1,810

2,144

2,053

2,315

Norfolk

55

68

67

65

North Wales

5

46

61

58

North Yorkshire

46

75

69

71

Northamptonshire

27

39

38

40

Northumbria

51

130

143

129

Nottinghamshire

69

113

112

112

South Wales

65

107

116

111

South Yorkshire

57

125

125

121

Staffordshire

13

63

62

70

Suffolk

15

34

33

30

Surrey

77

115

102

126

Sussex

183

228

231

257

Thames Valley

7

98

109

130

Warwickshire

43

56

56

64

West Mercia

67

81

86

85

West Midlands

40

219

247

252

West Yorkshire

264

394

433

462

Wiltshire

28

41

38

57

Total PCSO strength

4,125

6,261

6,324

6,769

(1) This table contains full-time equivalent figures that have been rounded to the nearest whole number. Because of rounding, there may be an apparent discrepancy between totals and the sums of the constituent items. Includes those on career breaks or maternity/paternity leave. Data for strength as at September 2006 will be published in January 2007.

Correspondence

Susan Kramer: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department when he will reply to the letters of (a) 6 September 2006 and (b) 1 November 2006 from the hon. Member for Richmond Park on the case of Abioseh Daphlile Davies (Home Office reference 10-05-1986). [104159]

Mr. Byrne [holding answer 27 November 2006]: I replied to the hon. Lady on 28 November 2006.

Sir Gerald Kaufman: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department when he will reply to the letter of 3 October 2006 from the right hon. Member for Manchester, Gorton with regard to Mr. M. L Ullaha. [105796]

Mr. Byrne: I wrote to my right hon. Friend on 28 November.


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Crime Statistics

Mr. Burns: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department how many cautions were issued in (a) Essex and (b) the Mid-Essex division of Essex constabulary area for (i) violence against the person, (ii) theft and handling stolen goods, (iii) sexual offences, (iv) criminal damage, (v) robbery and (vi) fraud and forgery in 2005; and if he will make a statement. [103287]

Mr. McNulty [holding answer 23 November 2006]: The information requested is provided in the following table. Data are provided for Essex police force area only as data are not available broken down by police division.

Number of offenders cautioned for indictable offences, by offence type, Essex police force area, 2005( 1,2)
Offence Number cautioned

Violence against the person

1,342

Sexual offences

40

Burglary

177

Robbery

10

Theft and handling stolen goods

1,903

Fraud and forgery

176

Criminal damage

40

Drug offences

514

Other indictable offences

115

Total

4,317

(1) These data are provided on the principal offence basis
(2) Every effort is made to ensure that the figures presented are accurate and complete. However, it is important to note that these data have been extracted from large administrative data systems generated by police forces. As a consequence, care should be taken to ensure data collection processes and their inevitable limitations are taken into account when those data are used.

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