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Police: Standards

Mr. Clegg: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department what percentage of police time was spent on frontline duties in each police force area and in each year since 2003-04; and what targets have been set for each police force area. [126433]

John Reid: Front line policing is measured using the Frontline Policing Measure, which is based on the proportion of police officers engaged in front line activities.

Figures for frontline policing are set out in the following table.

The Frontline Policing Measure is not just a measure of visibility. It measures time spent carrying out all core policing duties. Examples of frontline activity include dealing with incidents, visible patrol, searches, dealing with informants, interviewing suspects and special operations.

Full details of the formula used to calculate the measure and complete lists of frontline roles and activities are contained in the “Guidance on Statutory Performance Indicators for Policing 2006/07”, published by the Police Standards unit and available at:

http://police.homeoffice.gov.uk/news-and-publications/publication/performance-and-measurement/SPI_Technical_Guidelines_204.pdf?view=Binary

Copies of this guidance have been place in the House of Commons Library.

Time spent on front-line policing 2003-04 to 2005-06
Percentage
Front line policing	Baseline year 2003-04	2004-05	2005-06	Target 2007-08
Avon and Somerset	54.90	58.96	60.90	63.30
Bedfordshire	63.70	63.33	62.10	68.50
Cambridgeshire	61.70	60.33	70.70	69.30
Cheshire	63.90	57.69	63.40	71.40
City of London	61.80	63.11	69.10	70.60
Cleveland	55.60	53.56	55.20	69.90
Cumbria	59.80	60.99	59.30	66.90
Derbyshire	61.80	62.47	70.30	70.80
Devon and Cornwall	64.90	64.03	63.10	66.50
Dorset	67.10	68.21	68.70	72.00
Durham	58.60	58.98	59.50	67.60
Dyfed-Powys	62.60	64.09	63.30	68.70
Essex	56.90	60.89	62.70	70.30
Gloucestershire	64.70	68.11	66.50	72.70
Greater Manchester	64.10	61.14	61.20	72.10
Gwent	54.40	65.13	60.00	65.60
Hampshire	62.70	67.01	67.30	67.00
Hertfordshire	60.80	62.90	64.20	73.00
Humberside	59.70	57.28	56.60	68.30
Kent	65.30	66.38	67.50	71.10
Lancashire	62.30	64.25	62.50	68.10
Leicestershire	60.00	60.76	67.80	70.40
Lincolnshire	60.00	64.44	66.50	72.30
Merseyside	57.10	51.49	61.40	72.60
Metropolitan Police	65.20	62.38	61.30	65.80
Norfolk	59.80	62.90	66.70	70.30
North Wales	57.20	63.37	63.50	66.60
North Yorkshire	65.80	64.09	64.40	75.60
Northamptonshire	63.50	60.18	65.50	68.80
Northumbria	57.60	61.75	62.50	71.40
Nottinghamshire	59.10	57.65	59.50	73.00
South Wales	61.10	62.02	61.00	73.40
South Yorkshire	63.70	64.88	65.90	70.20
Staffordshire	58.80	61.47	66.60	68.70
Suffolk	62.40	60.63	59.50	68.50
Surrey	61.40	62.20	63.10	69.40
Sussex	59.80	60.58	61.30	68.50
Thames Valley	63.60	59.81	66.10	68.70
Warwickshire	64.90	66.25	66.20	68.80
West Mercia	63.30	62.82	64.60	71.80
West Midlands	62.10	63.64	61.80	73.10
West Yorkshire	62.80	67.35	70.60	66.70
Wiltshire	60.00	63.32	63.10	68.90
England and Wales	62.10	62.30	63.10	70.80

Prison Service: Hepatitis

Mr. Laxton: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department how many prison officers who are at occupational risk have been required to pay for vaccination against chronic hepatitis B since January 2006. [130569]

Mr. Sutcliffe: Where the risk of contracting hepatitis B is identified prison officers are offered hepatitis B immunisation free of charge.

Prisoners: Females

Mr. Clegg: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department how many women were sentenced to custody of less than three months in each of the last five years. [127758]

John Reid: The number of women sentenced to immediate custody of less than three months in England and Wales for the years 2001 to 2005 is shown in the following table. 2006 figures are due for publication in the autumn.

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Women sentenced to immediate custody of less than three months, England and Wales
	Number
2001	2,951
2002	3,254
2003	3,290
2004	3,245
2005	3,106

These figures have been drawn from administrative data systems. Although care is taken when processing and analysing the returns, the detail collected is subject to the inaccuracies inherent in any large scale recording system.

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