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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

Total London(1, 2)

29

Total England(2)

37

(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

Total London(3, 4)

35

39

39

40

Total England(4)

41

44

42

44

(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

Barking and Dagenham

57

58

51

52

50

Barnet

66

67

68

63

54

Bexley

63

60

49

55

46

Brent

54

52

52

53

45

Bromley

73

67

63

64

58

Camden

75

64

53

49

52

City of Westminster

55

48

49

46

42

Croydon

62

56

51

50

46

Ealing

62

54

53

55

54

Enfield

61

56

49

49

46

Greenwich

52

54

52

51

47

Hackney

58

51

46

45

42

Hammersmith and Fulham

59

55

52

47

45

Haringey

62

54

52

49

44

Harrow

65

55

53

50

45

Havering

63

65

56

57

52

Hillingdon

64

61

56

56

57

Hounslow

70

64

55

54

47

Islington

63

60

56

54

52

Kensington and Chelsea

60

52

48

43

43

Kingston upon Thames

53

59

53

49

45

Lambeth

56

53

47

42

41

Lewisham

50

50

54

51

52

Merton

59

55

49

49

43

Newham

59

52

47

50

47

Redbridge

73

65

57

52

53

Richmond upon Thames

59

54

53

51

44

Southwark

55

53

49

47

47

Sutton

56

58

58

52

50

Tower Hamlets

60

52

48

44

43

Waltham Forest

66

58

54

54

53

Wandsworth

65

55

54

50

50

Total(3)

61

56

52

50

48

Total London(4, 5)

38

35

32

32

29

Total England(5)

45

44

40

40

38

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.


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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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