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Orange Order: Crimes of Violence

Mr. Dodds: To ask the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland how many attacks were made on Orange halls in each constituency in Northern Ireland in each year since 1998. [168488]

Paul Goggins: PSNI has advised statistics in relation to recorded criminal damage offences involving an Orange Hall are only available from 2001-02 and are collated by District Command Unit rather than constituency. These are shown in the following table.

Criminal damage offences recorded where the location of the offence is an Orange Hall 2001-02—2006-07
Recorded
DCU 2001-02 2002-03 2003-04 2004-05 2005-06 2006-07

Antrim

1

1

2

1

1

0

Ards

3

2

1

0

0

1

East Belfast

1

1

0

0

0

0

North Belfast

1

0

3

1

2

2

South Belfast

0

0

0

0

0

1

West Belfast

0

0

0

0

1

0

Carrickfergus

0

0

0

0

0

0

Castlereagh

0

0

1

0

0

0

Down

3

3

1

1

4

2

Lisburn

5

2

2

2

3

1

Newtownabbey

0

0

1

1

0

0

North Down

0

1

0

0

1

1

Urban region

14

10

11

6

12

8

Armagh

3

3

3

1

2

5

Ballymena

1

0

2

2

1

2

Ballymoney

5

2

0

2

3

4

Banbridge

1

1

4

0

2

2

Coleraine

2

2

1

0

0

1

Cookstown

2

2

3

1

3

1

Craigavon

2

2

0

0

0

6

Dungannon

2

3

3

2

5

1

Fermanagh

1

0

2

2

0

0

Foyle

2

0

0

0

0

1

Lame

0

0

0

0

1

1

Limavady

0

0

0

1

0

1

Magherafelt

5

1

1

0

6

9

Moyle

2

2

1

0

0

0

Newry and Mourne

1

1

4

4

1

4

Omagh

0

1

3

5

2

4

Strabane

3

3

0

6

2

3

Rural region

32

23

27

26

28

45

Total

46

33

38

32

40

53

Note:
These figures are provisional and may be subject to revision.
Source:
Central Statistics Unit, PSNI

3 Dec 2007 : Column 795W

Mr. Dodds: To ask the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland how many people were (a) charged with and (b) convicted of attacks on Orange halls in Northern Ireland in each year since 1998. [168489]

Paul Goggins: PSNI has advised that statistics in relation to those charged with criminal damage offences involving an Orange Hall are only available from 2001-02. The table details these statistics.

The information requested in relation to convictions of those charged would necessitate a manual trawl through files across Departments and police districts which would incur a disproportionate cost.


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Criminal damage offences recorded and cleared where the location of the offence is an Orange Hall
Number of criminal damage offences cleared by means of charge/summons

2001-02

0

2002-03

1

2003-04

0

2004-05

0

2005-06

1

2006-07

0

Note:
These figures are provisional and may be subject to revision.
Source:
Central Statistics Unit, PSNI

Police Service of Northern Ireland: Religion

Mr. Gregory Campbell: To ask the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland how many and what percentage of (a) applicants and (b) appointees to the Police Service of Northern Ireland were (i) Protestant, (ii) Roman Catholic and (iii) of non-determined religion in each of the last four years. [168000]

Paul Goggins: I am advised that as of 23 November 2007, the number of people in each category of applicants and appointees in each of the last four years is as; follows:

Protestant Catholic Not determined
Number Percentage Number Percentage Number Percentage

Applicants

2004

6,713

62.90

3,691

34.59

268

2.51

2005

8,456

61.29

4,909

35.58

431

3.12

2006

9,152

58.69

5,953

38.18

488

3.13

2007

3,819

51.28

3,310

44.45

318

4.27

Appointees

2004

303

50.67

290

48.49

5

0.84

2005

218

48.55

227

50.56

4

0.89

2006

200

49.26

202

49.75

4

0.99

2007

177

48.36

187

51.09

2

0.55


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