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Police: Lancashire
Rosie Cooper: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department how much each police authority operating in West Lancashire constituency spent on training (a) police officers, (b) police community support officers and (c) special constables in each of the last 10 years. [143684]
Mr. McNulty: Spending on local staff training is an operational issue for the chief constable of Lancashire constabulary.
Police: Motor Vehicles
Mr. Watson: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department what steps he is taking to reduce the levels of road accidents involving police response vehicles. [143201]
Mr. Coaker: In responding effectively to emergency situations the police must have due regard to the safety of other road users. We welcome the guidance given in this area by ACPO and have been co-operating with the current inquiry into police related road traffic incidents being carried out by the Independent Police Complaints Commission. We look forward to its report and acting, with the police, on any lessons to be learned. The Home Office Scientific Development Branch is also currently working to enhance police driver training through a project to develop a simulator. This will enable trainees to develop their skills for pursuit and emergency response in realistic scenarios off-road.
Police: Ports
Mr. Hoban: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department what estimate he has made of the cost of policing the UK's borders and entry points in the last year for which figures are available. [120408]
Mr. Byrne: The requested information is not held centrally by the Department.
Police: Road Traffic
Mark Hunter: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department which police forces do not have a dedicated roads policing division; and what the title is of the units and divisions in each force which have responsibility for roads policing among their other duties. [142959]
Mr. McNulty: Force organisation and deployment of resources are matters for individual chief officers and such information is not collected centrally.
Mark Hunter: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department what the average number of roads policing officers on duty at any given time was in each police force in the last period for which figures are available; and what percentage of the force's total number of officers on duty each figure represents. [142961]
Mr. Coaker: This information is not available centrally.
Mark Hunter: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department what average number of roads policing officers on duty at any given time in each of the police forces in the last period for which figures are available were (a) carrying out patrolling duties and (b) carrying out roadside enforcement checks. [142962]
Mr. Coaker: This information is not collected centrally.
Police: Terrorism
Mr. Watson: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department pursuant to his answer of 4 June 2007, Official Report, column 265W, on the police: terrorism, how many police officers are planned to be equipped with specialist training skills in order to deal with a terrorist attack under the Chemical, Biological, Radiological or Nuclear Resilience Programme. [143248]
Mr. McNulty: As part of the Chemical Biological Radiological and Nuclear (CBRN) Resilience Programme the police currently intend to increase the number of officers specially trained in CBRN to approximately 12,000. This total is driven by operational requirements and as such is kept under review and may change.
Ports: Health
Damian Green:
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department what action his Department has
taken with the Department of Health and the Health Protection Agency to publish an explanation of accountabilities and responsibilities for stakeholder organisations and staff with regard to port health; and where this written explanation is available. [142055]
Mr. Byrne: An explanatory document entitled Health activity relating to people at ports, airports and international train stations in England was published on 31 July 2006 on the Department of Health website at:
and on the Home Office and Health Protection Agency websites in early August 2006 at:
Safer Neighbourhoods Programme
Lynne Featherstone: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department how much each London borough contributed to safer neighbourhood teams match funding in each of the last three years. [143023]
Mr. Coaker: We do not collect this information centrally. Local authorities, among other partners, are encouraged to provide matched funding to enhance community safety. Partnership working is key to successful delivery of neighbourhood policing and the more matched funding forces acquire, the better placed they will be to invest further in policing their local communities.
Stop and Search: Vehicles
Mr. Laws: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department how many people whose vehicles have been stopped and searched under the Terrorism Act 2000 have been (a) prosecuted and (b) convicted of (i) a notifiable offence and (ii) a terrorism-related offence; and if he will make a statement. [142730]
Mr. McNulty: The stops and search statistical collection, held by the Office for Criminal Justice Reform, identifies vehicles and occupiers searched under s44(1) of the Terrorism Act 2000 by resultant arrests only.
The information is not linked with details of any subsequent prosecutions and convictions.
Mr. Laws: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department how many vehicles were stopped and searched in each police force area in England in each year from 1997-98 to 2007-08; how many of these vehicles in each year were stopped and searched under section 44 of the Terrorism Act 2000; and if he will make a statement. [142731]
Mr. McNulty: The available information is given in the following tables from 1998-99 to 2004-05 (latest available). Information on “vehicles only” searches is not available for 1997-98.
| Total searches( 1) of vehicles( 2 ) and searches of vehicles under section 44(1) of the Terrorism Act 2000( 3) , by police force area in England, from 1998-99 to 2004-05 | ||||||||
| 1998-99 | 1999-2000 | 2000-01 | 2001-02 | |||||
| Police force area | Total vehicles only searched | Vehicles only searched under s44(1) Terrorism Act | Total vehicles only searched | Vehicles only searched under s44(1) Terrorism Act | Total vehicles only searched | Vehicles only searched under s44(1) Terrorism Act | Total vehicles only searched | Vehicles only searched under s44(1) Terrorism Act |
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