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Police Cautions

Mr. Ruffley: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department in how many cases of (a) violence against the person, (b) sexual offences, (c) robbery, (d) burglary, (e) theft, (f) fraud and forgery, (g) criminal damage and (h) drugs offences police cautions were given in each of the last five years; and what proportion of such cases were first offences. [219172]

Maria Eagle: I have been asked to reply.

The number of offenders issued with a caution for (a) violence against the person, (b) sexual offences, (c) robbery, (d) burglary, (e) theft, (f) fraud and forgery, (g) criminal damage and (h) drugs offences in England and Wales for the years 2002 to 2006 is shown in the following table.

Data from the court proceedings database held by the Ministry of Justice cannot separately identify what proportion of cautions were first offences.

Cautions data for 2007 will be available in the autumn of 2008.


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The number of defendants issued with a caution for offences relating to various types of offences in England and Wales, 2002 to 2006( 1,2,3)
Offence type 2002 2003 2004 2005 2006

Violence against the person

23,607

28,760

36,610

51,020

57,273

Sexual offences

1,203

1,359

1,553

1,761

1,922

Burglary

5,771

5,568

5,604

6,451

7,687

Robbery

408

422

451

622

712

Theft and handling stolen goods

54,214

54,466

61,944

67,619

72,369

Fraud and forgery

5,335

5,484

6,036

6,936

8,024

Criminal damage

3,102

3,726

5,495

7,246

9,018

Drug offences

44,922

45,707

32,621

34,390

37,426

(1) These data are on the principal offence basis.
(2) 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 police forces. As a consequence, care should be taken to ensure data collection processes and their inevitable limitations are taken into account when those data are used.
(3) From 1 June 2000 the Crime and Disorder Act 1998 came into force nationally and removed the use of cautions for persons under 18 and replaced them with reprimands and final warnings. These figures have been included in the totals.
Source:
CJEAU—Office for Criminal Justice Reform—Ministry of Justice

Police: Bureaucracy

Mr. Ruffley: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department what percentage of time on average (a) all officers and (b) patrol officers spent on (i) incident and (ii) non-incident related paperwork in each year since 2003-04; and how long each spent on average on patrol in each year. [219154]

Mr. McNulty: I refer the hon. Member to the answer I gave him on 10 December 2007, Official Report, column 91W.

Police: Council Tax

Mr. Pickles: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department how much was raised from the police precept in (a) England, (b) Wales and (c) each police authority in England and Wales in 1997-98; and how much is expected to be raised in 2008-09. [218291]

Mr. McNulty: Information is set out in the following table:

Council tax requirement
£ million
Police authority 1997-98 2008-09

Avon and Somerset

25.56

85.26

Bedfordshire

9.50

27.49

Cambridgeshire

11.71

41.99

Cheshire

17.12

50.34

Cleveland

8.60

29.27

Cumbria

9.23

31.66

Derbyshire

15.09

48.05

Devon and Cornwall

26.30

85.66

Dorset

16.60

47.94

Durham

8.88

26.70

Essex

29.28

77.63

Gloucestershire

10.05

41.14

Greater Manchester

40.17

98.76

Hampshire

31.76

91.65

Hertfordshire

17.59

60.23

Humberside

13.44

44.33

Kent

28.70

79.68

Lancashire

22.86

63.39

Leicestershire

14.50

49.93

Lincolnshire(1)

13.40

54.09

Merseyside

27.03

56.68

Metropolitan

181.83

664.97

Norfolk

13.03

52.05

North Yorkshire

13.42

57.12

Northamptonshire

21.25

40.86

Northumbria

12.99

33.77

Nottinghamshire

14.92

47.63

South Yorkshire

18.87

47.04

Staffordshire

17.71

58.81

Suffolk

11.30

37.50

Surrey

15.04

92.05

Sussex

29.06

79.87

Thames Valley

40.62

123.93

Warwickshire

9.17

32.63

West Mercia

19.66

71.71

West Midlands

39.56

74.88

West Yorkshire

31.84

82.30

Wiltshire

11.78

35.59

England total

899.38

2.824.59

Dyfed-Powys

8.24

33.86

Gwent

8.67

33.70

North Wales

11.24

51.25

South Wales

19.49

63.60

Wales total

47.64

182.41

England and Wales total

947.02

3,007.00

(1) Lincolnshire police authority will be required to set a revised budget requirement and council tax following approval by the House of Commons on 9 July of an order to cap the authority in 2008-09. Source: DCLG—from English Police Authorities/WAG—from Welsh Police Authorities.

Police: Firearms

Mr. Ruffley: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department how many police officers have received firearm injuries while on duty (a) in England and Wales and (b) broken down by police force area in each year since 1997. [219107]

Mr. McNulty: Data on crimes recorded by the police in which a police officer on duty was injured by a firearm (excluding air weapons) from 1997-98 up to and including 2006-07 are given in the following table.


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Crimes recorded by the police in England and Wales in which a police officer was injured( 1 ) by a firearm (excluding air weapons), by police force area 1997-98 to 2006-07

Police force area Total injuries

1997-98

Metropolitan

2

Northamptonshire

1

Nottinghamshire

1

West Midlands

2

England and Wales total

6

1998-99(2)

Devon and Cornwall

2

Greater Manchester

3

Leicestershire

1

Metropolitan

5

England and Wales total

11

1999-2000

Avon and Somerset

1

Cheshire

1

City of London

1

Metropolitan

2

Staffordshire

1

West Midlands

4

England and Wales total

10

2000-01(3)

Greater Manchester

5

Metropolitan

1

South Yorkshire

2

England and Wales total

8

2001-02

Metropolitan

1

Staffordshire

1

Warwickshire

3

West Midlands

5

England and Wales total

10

2002-03(4)

Gloucestershire

1

Metropolitan

6

Northamptonshire

2

West Midlands

3

England and Wales total

12

2003-04

Cheshire

1

Devon and Cornwall

1

Metropolitan

7

Nottinghamshire

1

West Midlands

2

West Yorkshire

2

England and Wales total

14

2004-05(5)

Avon and Somerset

2

Devon and Cornwall

1

Greater Manchester

7

Hampshire

1

Humberside

1

Metropolitan

9

West Midlands

2

England and Wales total

23

2005-06

Cheshire

2

Devon and Cornwall

3

Lancashire

1

Merseyside

1

Metropolitan

7

Nottinghamshire

1

West Midlands

4

West Yorkshire

4

England and Wales total

23

2006-07

Cheshire

1

Dyfed Powys

1

Gloucestershire

3

Greater Manchester

1

Humberside

1

Leicestershire

1

Merseyside

1

Metropolitan

4

West Midlands

5

West Yorkshire

2

Wiltshire

1

England and Wales total

21

(1) Includes fatal, serious and slight injuries.
(2) There was a change in counting rules for recorded crime on 1 April 1998.
(3) Numbers of some recorded crimes may have been inflated by some police forces implementing the principles of the National Crime Recording Standard before 1 April 2002.
(4) The national Crime Recording Standard was introduced on 1 April 2002. Figures for some crime categories may have been inflated by this.
(5) More explicit guidelines for the classification of weapons introduced on 1 April 2004, may have increased the recording of firearm offences, particularly those committed by imitation weapons.

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