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Mr. Milburn:
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department how many (a) assaults and (b) assaults with a minor injury took place on police officers in (i) each basic command unit in Durham Constabulary and (ii) each police force in each year since 2002. [113350]
Mr. McNulty:
The numbers of serious and other assaults on police officers are given in the following tables. These data are not available by basic command unit and have been provided at force level.
| Serious and other assaults( 1) on police officers 2001-02 to 2004-05( 2,3) |
| | 2001-02 | 2002-03 | 2003-04 | 2004-05 |
| Force | Serious | Other | Serious | Other | Serious | Other | Serious | Other |
|
Avon and Somerset
|
64
|
272
|
0
|
366
|
3
|
490
|
0
|
296
|
|
Bedfordshire
|
18
|
76
|
8
|
66
|
2
|
115
|
0
|
106
|
|
Cambridgeshire
|
1
|
117
|
2
|
149
|
2
|
166
|
1
|
148
|
|
Cheshire
|
5
|
214
|
4
|
348
|
13
|
378
|
2
|
337
|
|
City of London
|
2
|
60
|
0
|
43
|
4
|
44
|
2
|
51
|
|
Cleveland
|
44
|
214
|
0
|
59
|
0
|
67
|
0
|
63
|
|
Cumbria
|
3
|
77
|
12
|
108
|
4
|
107
|
2
|
93
|
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|
Derbyshire
|
0
|
241
|
0
|
290
|
1
|
229
|
0
|
228
|
|
Devon and Cornwall
|
3
|
253
|
7
|
319
|
12
|
306
|
19
|
314
|
|
Dorset
|
1
|
155
|
1
|
196
|
1
|
130
|
1
|
164
|
|
Durham
|
3
|
301
|
1
|
240
|
2
|
219
|
3
|
133
|
|
Dyfed-Powys
|
7
|
115
|
2
|
132
|
4
|
100
|
4
|
137
|
|
Essex
|
0
|
225
|
0
|
260
|
1
|
374
|
2
|
393
|
|
Gloucestershire
|
2
|
121
|
1
|
148
|
3
|
144
|
0
|
170
|
|
Greater Manchester
|
19
|
855
|
25
|
909
|
—
|
—
|
16
|
1,006
|
|
Gwent
|
0
|
340
|
3
|
178
|
2
|
207
|
2
|
176
|
|
Hampshire
|
5
|
172
|
12
|
490
|
25
|
518
|
24
|
384
|
|
Hertfordshire
|
0
|
169
|
1
|
193
|
2
|
169
|
0
|
185
|
|
Humberside
|
12
|
176
|
21
|
240
|
14
|
182
|
3
|
127
|
|
Kent
|
2
|
361
|
25
|
342
|
27
|
347
|
5
|
394
|
|
Lancashire(4,5)
|
57
|
239
|
67
|
264
|
—
|
—
|
—
|
—
|
|
Leicestershire
|
0
|
235
|
8
|
202
|
11
|
191
|
14
|
291
|
|
Lincolnshire
|
3
|
164
|
6
|
162
|
0
|
166
|
29
|
169
|
|
Merseyside
|
0
|
147
|
0
|
10
|
0
|
182
|
0
|
165
|
|
Metropolitan Police
|
—
|
1,438
|
—
|
1,898
|
—
|
2,349
|
25
|
2,589
|
|
Norfolk
|
8
|
163
|
6
|
220
|
16
|
166
|
9
|
199
|
|
Northamptonshire
|
—
|
136
|
—
|
149
|
7
|
102
|
0
|
98
|
|
Northumbria
|
37
|
501
|
0
|
691
|
0
|
39
|
25
|
215
|
|
North Wales
|
0
|
111
|
0
|
91
|
7
|
89
|
0
|
111
|
|
North Yorkshire
|
2
|
109
|
7
|
118
|
8
|
232
|
0
|
279
|
|
Nottinghamshire
|
3
|
171
|
0
|
391
|
19
|
90
|
10
|
224
|
|
South Wales
|
0
|
893
|
5
|
1,037
|
2
|
702
|
5
|
707
|
|
South Yorkshire
|
10
|
199
|
3
|
161
|
5
|
187
|
2
|
161
|
|
Staffordshire
|
5
|
174
|
2
|
144
|
0
|
119
|
0
|
158
|
|
Suffolk
|
4
|
166
|
1
|
160
|
10
|
175
|
2
|
193
|
|
Surrey
|
18
|
157
|
0
|
223
|
9
|
216
|
18
|
238
|
|
Sussex
|
7
|
277
|
11
|
175
|
6
|
324
|
11
|
405
|
|
Thames Valley
|
5
|
315
|
4
|
312
|
5
|
308
|
9
|
260
|
|
Warwickshire
|
4
|
152
|
3
|
201
|
0
|
250
|
0
|
256
|
|
West Mercia
|
18
|
234
|
10
|
235
|
17
|
210
|
7
|
199
|
|
West Midlands(4,5)
|
11
|
1,085
|
2
|
1,262
|
—
|
—
|
—
|
—
|
|
West Yorkshire
|
6
|
1,015
|
2
|
779
|
9
|
847
|
7
|
882
|
|
Wiltshire
|
11
|
101
|
1
|
136
|
0
|
165
|
3
|
121
|
(1) Data collated on behalf of and published by HMIC. Serious assaults are those for which the charge would be under Sections 18 and 20 of the Offences Against the Person Act 1861. Recording practices may vary between forces.
(2) Financial year runs 1 April to 31 March inclusive.
(3) Data for 2005-06 has been collated but not yet been validated. Figures will be available in the HMIC Annual Report 2005-06 due for publication by March 2007.
(4) Lancashire and West Midlands were not able to provide breakdowns of numbers for different assaults in 2003-04, however the number of overall assaults was 462 and 1,112 respectively.
(5) Lancashire and West Midlands were not able to provide breakdowns of numbers for different assaults in 2004-05, however the number of overall assaults was 521 and 910 respectively.
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