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Offenders: Deportation

Damian Green: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department what resources were drawn from the Criminal Casework Team in the former Immigration and Nationality Directorate to improve the speed of responses to Ministers' letters from hon. Members as stated on page 2 of A Review of the Failure of the Immigration and Nationality Directorate to consider some Foreign National Prisoners for Deportation. [144735]

Mr. Byrne: The Chief Executive of the Border and Immigration Agency, Lin Homer, was responsible for commissioning this review and implementing its findings. I have asked the Chief Executive to write to the hon. Gentleman to provide further clarification on the issue he has raised and will also arrange for a copy of this letter to be placed in the Library of the House.

Police: Labour Turnover

Mr. Vara: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department pursuant to the answer of 12 June 2007, Official Report, column 975W, to the hon. Member for Taunton (Mr. Browne) on police: labour turnover, how many police recruits left the police force within two years of joining since 2002-03, broken down by police force area; and what percentage of leavers that figure represents. [143509]

Mr. McNulty: The available data are given in the following table. The totals for leavers include transfers to other England and Wales forces.


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Number of police officers leaving( 1) within two years of joining the service by police force area, from 2002-03 to 2005-06
Headcount
2002-03( 2) 2003-04 2004-05( 3) 2005-06( 4)
Number of officers leaving within two years Percentage of officers leaving within two years from total number of leavers Number of officers leaving within two years Percentage of officers leaving within two years from total number of leavers Number of officers leaving within two years Percentage of officers leaving within two years from total number of leavers Number of officers leaving within two years Percentage of officers leaving within two years from total number of leavers

Avon and Somerset

39

18.9

33

22.9

30

17.4

15

8.2

Bedfordshire

17

18.5

22

21.2

30

30.6

16

18.0

Cambridgeshire

17

15.9

10

10.5

12

11.5

12

10.9

Cheshire

6

5.3

12

11.0

17

15.6

8

4.5

Cleveland

2

3.3

9

11.0

14

17.3

8

7.5

Cumbria

5

8.5

3

6.3

8

17.8

5

6.9

Derbyshire

7

6.4

13

15.1

6

5.5

4

2.9

Devon and Cornwall

20

13.0

10

7.8

18

10.1

24

12.0

Dorset

13

19.1

15

20.0

13

16.5

15

14.4

Durham

6

8.1

11

14.1

17

21.0

16

15.5

Dyfed-Powys

6

10.9

5

12.5

10

16.4

4

5.3

Essex

23

10.7

19

9.2

34

15.2

39

15.1

Gloucestershire

13

15.7

10

17.5

11

19.0

4

4.3

Greater Manchester

56

14.9

65

19.6

55

15.4

43

8.8

Gwent

2

3.3

3

4.1

4

5.5

12

15.2

Hampshire

29

12.9

48

20.7

37

13.9

32

10.9

Hertfordshire

33

17.4

43

27.2

38

24.2

31

18.1

Humberside

17

16.3

22

22.7

12

10.6

20

12.8

Kent

43

20.0

45

19.9

27

12.5

23

8.5

Lancashire

18

14.3

21

12.6

13

6.2

Leicestershire

9

7.1

16

18.6

19

11.9

Lincolnshire

15

20.5

7

11.5

14

17.5

14

14.6

London, City of

11

18.6

5

8.9

6

10.2

3

3.8

Merseyside

10

5.1

14

8.0

22

9.6

19

6.7

Metropolitan Police

410

23.5

394

25.0

214

15.5

95

5.9

Norfolk

12

13.0

6

11.8

7

8.8

11

12.1

Northamptonshire

8

14.3

7

9.6

5

5.5

10

11.0

Northumbria

20

12.2

20

11.0

20

12.4

13

6.4

North Wales

9

11.7

7

12.3

10

18.5

6

6.1

North Yorkshire

8

13.8

7

9.5

13

14.6

3

2.9

Nottinghamshire

8

5.8

14

11.3

15

10.3

4

2.5

South Wales

25

16.3

11

7.5

11

8.5

13

7.1

South Yorkshire

24

14.0

23

14.1

30

17.1

21

8.8

Staffordshire

12

9.2

12

11.7

34

27.0

12

10.6

Suffolk

12

14.1

20

26.7

16

21 .6

10

11.1

Surrey

53

21 .5

40

27.0

30

19.0

22

14.7

Sussex

47

19.3

87

30.0

84

32.4

49

22.2

Thames Valley

53

14.3

37

11 .6

62

19.8

41

12.5

Warwickshire

12

20.7

7

12.5

3

4.7

5

6.8

West Mercia

13

11.2

22

17.9

13

11.2

9

5.8

West Midlands

88

16.7

7

1.6

72

16.3

63

12.9

West Yorkshire

30

11.7

32

12.9

40

14.9

63

17.2

Wiltshire

10

12.2

14

21 .2

11

13.9

12

16.4

England and Wales

1,253

16.1

1,225

17.0

1,146

15.7

861

9.8

(1) Includes transfers to other England and Wales forces but does not include officers leaving after a period of secondment.
(2) Data not available for Lancashire.
(3) Data not available for Leicestershire.
(4) Over 1,000 police officers previously working with the National Crime Squad (NCS) and the National Criminal Intelligence Squad (NCIS) left their home force to join the Serious Organised Crime Agency when it vested on 1 April 2006.

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