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Stop and Search

Mr. Ruffley: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department how many people had their vehicle stopped and searched under section 1 of the Police and Criminal Evidence Act 1984 in each year since 1997; and how many of those were (a) prosecuted and (b) convicted of (i) a notifiable offence and (ii) a terrorism-related offence in (A) each police force area and (B) England and Wales. [200253]

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Mr. Coaker: The available information held by the Ministry of Justice is given in the following table for the period 1998-99 to 2005-06 (latest available). Information on searches of ‘persons’ and ‘vehicles only’ cannot be separately identified prior to 1998-99. The information collected centrally by the Ministry of Justice on stop and searches is not linked with details of any subsequent prosecutions and convictions.

Searches of vehicles( 1) under section 1 of the Police and Criminal Evidence Act 1984, by police force area, 1998-99 to 2005-06 , England and Wales
Police force area	1998-99	1999-2000	2000-01	2001-02	2002-03	2003-04( 2)	2004-05( 2)	2005-06
Avon and Somerset	716	672	399	504	696	458	265	149
Bedfordshire	40	58	39	53	48	48	15	12
Cambridgeshire	90	77	114	207	223	202	166	18
Cheshire	966	796	603	364	634	350	888	368
Cleveland	277	190	218	159	150	129	125	99
Cumbria	475	360	284	281	96	78	91	134
Derbyshire	1,259	1,583	500	431	433	424	366	248
Devon and Cornwall	944	702	601	707	481	293	92	126
Dorset	241	450	474	193	157	126	74	77
Durham	84	93	64	117	85	79	84	39
Essex	725	887	1,115	775	518	157	141	66
Gloucestershire	519	650	562	567	629	560	618	30
Greater Manchester	1,752	1,555	1,338	1,323	1,571	678	713	358
Hampshire	207	448	243	202	182	203	221	96
Hertfordshire	488	407	372	304	31	185	244	86
Humberside	—	6	144	23	170	144	164	25
Kent	7,218	5,657	2,595	1,230	535	—	—	—
Lancashire	—	611	438	695	631	694	608	281
Leicestershire	878	303	439	1,069	471	814	1,753	2,266
Lincolnshire	734	314	149	155	219	217	233	50
London, City of	2	10	13	5	25	5	30	40
Merseyside	1,095	581	1,753	1,770	1,313	200	143	117
Metropolitan Police	4,663	2,552	2,791	2,899	4,058	1,390	1,129	1,174
Norfolk	522	339	463	1,084	130	179	164	40
Northamptonshire	181	337	278	268	296	246	79	91
Northumbria	1,147	632	437	377	365	193	196	246
North Yorkshire	396	386	202	251	226	179	47	52
Nottinghamshire	241	140	286	269	349	820	101	235
South Yorkshire	703	863	929	734	681	419	424	517
Staffordshire	210	173	149	205	214	279	161	139
Suffolk	812	490	278	259	316	153	204	1,021
Surrey	119	71	82	69	78	91	63	43
Sussex	480	639	738	759	445	486	545	613
Thames Valley	773	467	437	343	607	274	213	264
Warwickshire	304	424	331	272	229	173	105	114
West Mercia	460	3,416	2,317	1,086	—	—	—	—
West Midlands	245	35	—	—	—	40	103	—
West Yorkshire	4,310	4,510	3,219	4,773	7,748	1,115	1,429	1,045
Wiltshire	813	542	432	349	—	—	—	—
Dyfed Powys	5,299	4,131	357	73	56	62	59	79
Gwent	1,058	812	682	731	422	270	303	116
North Wales	744	636	372	296	429	144	82	40
South Wales	826	1,008	741	806	412	168	118	8
England and Wales	43,016	39,013	27,978	27,037	26,359	12,725	12,559	10,522
(1) Searches may be conducted on vehicles only, occupants only, or both may be searched. Where a vehicle and driver occupier are searched simultaneously the search is recorded against the driver (occupant). Any other passengers searched are recorded as occupants. Data given in the table are where a vehicle only has been searched. (2 )Figures have been updated since publication of the respective bulletins. Note: Every effort is made to ensure that the figures presented are accurate and complete. However, it is important to note that these data have been extracted from large administrative data systems generated by the police forces. As a consequence, care should be taken to ensure data collection processes and their inevitable limitations are taken into account when these data are used. Source: Stops/Searches collection held by Office for Criminal Justice Reform.

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