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Mr. Boris Johnson: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department how many recorded crimes there were per police officer in (a) England, (b) London and (c) each London borough in each year since 1997. [166948]
Mr. Coaker: The available information is given in the tables. Information for London boroughs is not available centrally prior to 2002-03.
Table 1: Recorded off ences per police officer (FTE) 1997 | |
Number | |
(1). includes the City of London police and the Metropolitan Police service (also includes those officers who work in central services and Heathrow). (2). Total police officer strength figures are based on full-time equivalent figures that have been rounded to the nearest whole number. These figures exclude those officers on career breaks or maternity/paternity leave. |
Table 2: Recorded offences per police officer (FTE) 1998-99 to 2001-02( 1,2) | ||||
1998-99 | 1999-2000 | 2000-01 | 2001-02 | |
(1). The coverage was extended and counting rules revised from 1998/99. Figures from that date are not directly comparable with those for 1997. (2). The data in this table is prior to the introduction of the National Crime Recording Standard. These figures are not directly comparable with those for later years. (3). Includes the City of London police and the Metropolitan Police Service (also includes those officers who work in Central Services and Heathrow Airport). (4). Total police officer strength figures are based on full-time equivalent figures that have been rounded to the nearest whole number. These figures exclude those officers on career breaks or maternity/paternity leave. |
Table 3 Recorded offences per police officer (FTE) 2002-03 to 2006-07( 1) | |||||
London borough( 2) | 2002-03 | 2003-04 | 2004-05 | 2005-06 | 2006-07 |
1. The data in this table takes account of the introduction of the National Crime Recording Standard in April 2002. These figures are not directly comparable with those for earlier years. 2. Police officer strength figures are only available by borough from 2002-03. These figures are based on full-time equivalent figures that have been rounded to the nearest whole number and include those officers on career breaks and maternity/paternity leave. 3. Total figures for all London boroughs exclude the crimes recorded and the police officers who work at Heathrow Airport. Officers who work in Central Services (headquarters) have also been excluded from the figures. 4. Includes the City of London police and the Metropolitan Police Service (also includes those officers who work in central Services and Heathrow Airport). 5. The total police officer strength figures for London and England exclude those officers on career breaks or maternity/paternity leave. |
Mr. Ruffley: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department how many recorded instances of (a) rape and (b) domestic violence there were in each year since 1997 in England and Wales, broken down by police force area; and what the clear-up rates of such crimes were in each year in each area. [166976]
Mr. Coaker: From the information collected centrally on recorded crime, it is not possible to identify recorded cases of domestic violence. Such offences are not specifically defined by law and details of the individual circumstances of offences are not collected.
Data for the number of recorded instances of rape and the clear-up/detection rate for these crimes is available for the 1997 calendar year and from 1998-99 in financial years. This followed a revision to the counting rules for recorded crime and the expanded coverage which came into effect on 1 April 1998. The figures were also affected by the revised detections guidance issued in April 1999 which formalised detection procedures, placing a greater emphasis on the evidential basis on which detections can be claimed.
The figures were also affected by the introduction of the National Crime Recording Standard in April 2002, which required the police to record a crime unless there was no credible evidence to the contrary. The Sexual Offences Act 2003 in May 2004 also altered the definition and coverage of sexual offences, including rape. All of these changes mean that detection rates are not comparable over these time periods.
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