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Police: Retirement
Mr. Ruffley:
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department what estimate she has made of the number of police officers who will retire in each of the next five years. [176070]
Mr. McNulty:
The requested information can be estimated from the centrally collected data within the police personnel statistics series.
Police officers are eligible for retirement with an ordinary pension after 25 years of service. An ordinary pension is payable from age 50 unless the officer has completed 30 years of service, in which case he or she may retire with an immediate pension even if under the age of 50. Data for the number of police officers with 25 to 26 years, 26 to 27 years, 27 to 28 years, 28 to 29 years and 29 to 30 years of service are available.
Officers with less than 25 years of service may retire with an immediate pension between the ages of 55 and 60, depending on their rank and police force. Data for the number of police officers over the age of 55 are available.
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We estimate that between 4,000 and 5,000 officers will retire with an ordinary, short-service or ill-health pension in each of the next five years.
Police: Standards
Mr. Ruffley:
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department what percentage of calls were met within the target time adopted by the Metropolitan Police in each of the last three years, broken down by borough. [176071]
Mr. McNulty:
The information requested on emergency call handling is published in the Annual Reports of Her Majesty’s Inspectorate of Constabulary (HMIC). The data are available at the force level only, although the City of London’s emergency calls are also dealt with by the Metropolitan Police Service (MPS). The MPS has adopted a target time of 15 seconds for responding to 999 calls.
The latest available data refer to the 2004-05 financial year, and can be found in Figure 8 of the HMIC Annual Report 2004-05. This publication is available via the Home Office website at
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In 2004-05 86.4 per cent of calls were responded to within the MRS target time, in 2003-04 87.9 per cent were responded to and in 2002-03 the figure was 82.3 per cent.
Prosecutions: Driving Offences
Mr. Ruffley:
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department how many (a) successful prosecutions, (b) cautions and (c) fixed-penalty notices there have been in relation to uninsured drivers (i) in total and (ii) in each police force area in each of the last 10 years; and what the average penalty was in each category. [176297]
Mr. Coaker:
Available information taken from the Court Proceedings Database held by the Ministry of Justice for the offence of ‘using a motor vehicle uninsured against third party risks’, from 1997-2005 (latest available) is provided in the tables.
2006 data will be available later this year.
| Proceedings at magistrates courts for the offence of using a motor vehicle uninsured against third party risks( 1) , and average fine imposed( 2) by police force area, England and Wales, 1997-2004 |
| Number of offences |
| | 1997 | 1998 | 1999 | 2000 | 2001 |
| Police force area | Findings of guilt | Average fine (£) | Findings of guilt | Average fine (£) | Findings of guilt | Average fine (£) | Findings of guilt | Average fine (£) | Findings of guilt | Average fine (£) |
|
Avon and Somerset
|
9,424
|
259
|
9,875
|
204
|
9,357
|
165
|
9,578
|
182
|
8,455
|
130
|
|
Bedfordshire
|
2,951
|
314
|
2,992
|
293
|
2,328
|
274
|
2,323
|
226
|
2,916
|
164
|
|
Cambridgeshire
|
2,394
|
221
|
2,507
|
209
|
2,233
|
215
|
2,226
|
182
|
1,989
|
119
|
|
Cheshire
|
3,499
|
274
|
3,658
|
248
|
3,872
|
237
|
4,110
|
211
|
3,927
|
149
|
|
Cleveland
|
2,798
|
162
|
2,908
|
167
|
3,027
|
170
|
3,597
|
179
|
3,643
|
167
|
|
Cumbria
|
3,089
|
150
|
2,866
|
171
|
2,772
|
220
|
2,699
|
265
|
2,906
|
152
|
|
Derbyshire
|
3,830
|
270
|
3,522
|
279
|
3,613
|
283
|
3,945
|
296
|
4,261
|
337
|
|
Devon and Cornwall
|
4,967
|
184
|
4,263
|
185
|
4,681
|
178
|
5,890
|
179
|
5,742
|
133
|
|
Dorset
|
3,458
|
295
|
2,777
|
302
|
3,013
|
301
|
3,548
|
261
|
2,986
|
121
|
|
Durham
|
2,912
|
181
|
3,086
|
177
|
4,475
|
194
|
4,338
|
160
|
4,361
|
118
|
|
Essex
|
4,507
|
174
|
4,635
|
149
|
5,035
|
140
|
5,356
|
123
|
5,417
|
101
|
|
Gloucestershire
|
2,114
|
154
|
2,885
|
202
|
2,867
|
247
|
2,548
|
240
|
2,692
|
91
|
|
Greater Manchester
|
20,548
|
245
|
21,430
|
226
|
23,696
|
236
|
24,020
|
232
|
26,600
|
152
|
|
Hampshire
|
7,844
|
132
|
8,028
|
135
|
8,123
|
138
|
7,578
|
136
|
7,677
|
119
|
|
Hertfordshire
|
2,573
|
193
|
3,056
|
164
|
2,789
|
173
|
3,332
|
204
|
3,691
|
155
|
|
Humberside
|
3,479
|
159
|
3,501
|
148
|
3,920
|
143
|
4,065
|
137
|
3,657
|
122
|
|
Kent
|
4,754
|
246
|
4,808
|
241
|
4,232
|
227
|
6,431
|
271
|
7,063
|
209
|
|
Lancashire
|
11,577
|
332
|
11,198
|
296
|
10,800
|
237
|
11,054
|
219
|
9,812
|
111
|
|
Leicestershire
|
5,990
|
318
|
6,265
|
318
|
7,281
|
276
|
6,752
|
254
|
6,849
|
134
|
|
Lincolnshire
|
3,001
|
159
|
3,466
|
197
|
3,744
|
209
|
3,321
|
188
|
2,970
|
133
|
|
London, City of
|
1,382
|
332
|
1,431
|
314
|
1,141
|
346
|
777
|
375
|
1,021
|
369
|
|
Merseyside
|
8,432
|
200
|
7,694
|
203
|
6,920
|
200
|
7,813
|
207
|
7,794
|
163
|
|
Metropolitan Police
|
25,866
|
202
|
22,874
|
185
|
20,893
|
184
|
20,247
|
169
|
22,677
|
139
|
|
Norfolk
|
3,456
|
242
|
3,060
|
256
|
3,000
|
265
|
2,851
|
210
|
3,040
|
99
|
|
Northamptonshire
|
3,083
|
243
|
3,271
|
286
|
4,151
|
310
|
2,998
|
280
|
1,643
|
280
|
|
Northumbria
|
8,064
|
136
|
8,079
|
146
|
9,299
|
148
|
9,430
|
144
|
9,251
|
130
|
|
North Yorkshire
|
2,778
|
249
|
2,538
|
236
|
2,656
|
230
|
2,572
|
211
|
2,216
|
130
|
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|
Nottinghamshire
|
6,149
|
164
|
6,658
|
165
|
6,156
|
153
|
6,082
|
150
|
6,261
|
152
|
|
South Yorkshire
|
7,342
|
194
|
7,831
|
206
|
8,424
|
191
|
8,956
|
170
|
10,163
|
128
|
|
Staffordshire
|
5,251
|
251
|
5,379
|
228
|
5,725
|
234
|
6,760
|
198
|
4,723
|
152
|
|
Suffolk
|
2,202
|
193
|
2,283
|
192
|
2,547
|
192
|
2,330
|
183
|
2,387
|
128
|
|
Surrey
|
2,439
|
243
|
2,051
|
242
|
2,278
|
215
|
2,577
|
218
|
2,826
|
201
|
|
Sussex
|
4,726
|
218
|
4,150
|
186
|
4,198
|
181
|
3,808
|
167
|
4,016
|
118
|
|
Thames Valley
|
6,258
|
292
|
6,311
|
257
|
7,291
|
268
|
7,456
|
250
|
7,128
|
134
|
|
Warwickshire
|
2,595
|
228
|
2,394
|
175
|
2,192
|
177
|
2,316
|
188
|
2,672
|
156
|
|
West Mercia
|
4,848
|
268
|
5,624
|
282
|
5,224
|
282
|
5,542
|
263
|
5,766
|
176
|
|
West Midlands
|
18,484
|
207
|
18,969
|
190
|
16,407
|
189
|
18,010
|
201
|
18,221
|
169
|
|
West Yorkshire
|
15,041
|
255
|
14,682
|
242
|
15,903
|
242
|
15,649
|
209
|
15,934
|
120
|
|
Wiltshire
|
2,310
|
152
|
2,712
|
182
|
2,558
|
186
|
2,625
|
204
|
3,281
|
283
|
|
Dyfed-Powys
|
1,953
|
183
|
1,952
|
182
|
2,044
|
175
|
2,076
|
169
|
1,914
|
155
|
|
Gwent
|
2,899
|
253
|
3,344
|
225
|
3,452
|
225
|
3,808
|
208
|
3,836
|
148
|
|
North Wales
|
3,280
|
210
|
3,309
|
226
|
3,097
|
272
|
2,848
|
230
|
2,565
|
144
|
|
South Wales
|
9,936
|
190
|
10,629
|
180
|
10,467
|
183
|
10,335
|
188
|
9,809
|
159
|
| | | | | | | | | | | |
|
England and Wales
|
254,483
|
224
|
254,951
|
214
|
257,881
|
212
|
264,577
|
203
|
266,758
|
150
|
