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Organised Crime
Mr. Spellar: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department what progress has been made on tackling serious and organised crime in the last 12 months. [197647]
Mr. Coaker: The Serious Crime Act 2007 introduced a number of provisions for tackling organised crime more effectively. These included the creation of Serious Crime Prevention Orders, a new offence of encouraging or assisting crime, measures to improve data sharing to prevent and detect fraud, improvements in the law relating to the proceeds of crime and the merger of the Assets Recovery Agency into the Serious Organised Crime Agency (SOCA).
£35 million of additional funding is being provided for improving protective services over the next three years specifically targeted at supporting collaborative work and strengthening police forces' ability to combat serious organised criminal networks. This funding will help continue work initiated by the Association of
Chief Police Officers maintaining the 10 Regional Intelligence Units and enabling the East Midlands Special Operations Unit to continue its work to tackle serious and organised crime in its area.
SOCA will report on its achievements during 2007-08 in its annual report, due to be published in May, and the creation of the UK Border Agency from 1 April will improve the Government's response to organised crime by strengthening the UK's border controls.
Police
Mr. Ruffley: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department what her definition of a front line police officer is. [198614]
Mr. McNulty: Frontline police officers are those who are directly involved with the delivery of core operational policing. Examples of roles considered as front line include: Burglary, CID, Firearms, Community Safety, Dogs, Drugs, Foot/Car/Beat Patrol, Neighbourhood Policing, Hate Crime, Mounted Police, Special Branch, Marine, Air, Underwater, and Vice.
Police Cautions
Jenny Willott: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department how many and what proportion of cautions were found to be unlawful in each year since 1995, broken down by police force area; and if she will make a statement. [197317]
Mr. Coaker: The information requested is not collected centrally.
Jenny Willott: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department how many and what proportion of cautions were found to be inappropriate in each year since 1995, broken down by police force area; and if she will make a statement. [197988]
Mr. Coaker: The information requested is not collected centrally.
Jenny Willott: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department how many reprimands given in each year since 1995 were found to have been (a) unlawful and (b) inappropriate, broken down by police force area; and if she will make a statement. [197991]
Mr. Coaker: The information requested is not collected centrally.
Police Custody: Young People
Susan Kramer: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department how many children aged (a) 10, (b) 11, (c) 12 and (d) 13 years were held in custody (i) on remand and (ii) after being convicted in connection with a breach of an anti-social behaviour order in (A) 2004, (B) 2005 and (C) 2006; and what the average length of detention was in each year. [198336]
Mr. Coaker: The data are not collected centrally. Home Office and Youth Justice Board Guidance states that custody for young people who breach their antisocial behaviour order should be used as a last resort.
Police: Complaints
Mr. Ruffley: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department what (a) successful and (b) unsuccessful cases have been brought by members of the public against police forces for (i) malicious prosecution, (ii) false imprisonment and (iii) assault in the last five years; and how much compensation was paid in each successful case. [198613]
Mr. McNulty: The information requested is not held centrally and could be obtained only at disproportionate cost.
Police: Finance
Mr. Ruffley:
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department how population growth is taken
into account when calculating the total resource allocation formula for police forces. [198534]
Mr. McNulty: I refer the hon. Member to the answer I gave to his question on 1 April 2008, Official Report, columns 764-65W.
Mr. Ruffley: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department (1) how much (a) in total and (b) per head of population was raised from police precepts in each police authority in England and Wales in each year since 1996-97; [198575]
(2) how much was raised from police precepts in each police authority in England and Wales in each year since 2006-07. [199397]
Mr. McNulty: Information is set out in the following tables.
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