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Proportion of Police Officers (FTE)( 1) whose primary function is Traffic( 2 ) from 2002 - 03 to 2006 - 07
Percentage
	2002-03	2003-04	2004-05	2005-06	2006-07
Avon and Somerset	6.8	6.5	6.7	6.3	4.4
Bedfordshire	6.8	6.8	6.6	6.7	5.7
Cambridgeshire	6.1	7.1	7.2	6.9	6.9
Cheshire	9.2	9.2	8.9	3.9	4.2
Cleveland	4.0	4.3	—	3.6	4.2
Cumbria	9.4	9.0	8.8	9.0	9.1
Derbyshire	5.3	5.8	5.6	5.8	5.4
Devon and Cornwall	6.0	6.0	6.3	6.1	6.5
Dorset	6.4	6.0	5.7	5.5	5.4
Durham	6.7	7.1	6.3	6.2	5.9
Essex	8.1	7.8	7.6	7.4	7.0
Gloucestershire	5.0	5.1	5.2	5.7	5.2
Greater Manchester	5.5	4.9	4.5	4.3	4.5
Hampshire	6.8	6.6	6.6	6.5	6.2
Hertfordshire	7.7	7.2	7.1	7.0	6.7
Humberside	5.8	5.4	10.1	8.1	4.5
Kent	3.0	—	3.4	3.2	3.0
Lancashire	5.9	5.3	5.4	5.5	5.1
Leicestershire	4.3	4.2	3.7	3.4	3.2
Lincolnshire	7.4	7.2	7.8	8.4	8.2
London, City of	3.0	2.8	3.2	2.8	2.7
Merseyside	3.0	2.9	2.7	3.2	3.4
Metropolitan Police	2.1	2.0	3.4	2.0	2.0
Norfolk	8.0	8.0	6.9	7.2	7.0
Northamptonshire	5.8	5.7	5.2	4.8	4.9
Northumbria	6.2	6.3	4.1	4.2	4.4
North Yorkshire	10.5	9.0	6.5	5.9	6.0
Nottinghamshire	—	4.9	5.3	5.4	5.8
South Yorkshire	5.7	3.9	4.1	4.3	4.4
Staffordshire	2.3	2.2	2.5	1.2	1.5
Suffolk	5.4	5.5	5.8	6.2	5.7
Surrey	5.6	5.8	5.6	5.2	4.5
Sussex	5.5	5.4	5.4	5.2	5.5
Thames Valley	6.8	6.4	6.0	5.6	5.7
Warwickshire	10.3	10.2	9.2	9.4	8.8
West Mercia	13.0	4.9	4.9	4.9	5.4
West Midlands	5.0	5.1	4.9	4.9	4.7
West Yorkshire	6.4	6.0	5.6	6.1	5.7
Wiltshire	7.8	7.9	7.6	—	7.4
Dyfed Powys	11.8	9.1	12.0	12.1	11.6
Gwent	6.9	6.9	6.7	7.0	6.3
North Wales	7.5	7.1	4.6	5.0	6.1
South Wales	7.5	7.5	7.4	7.4	7.6
(1) This and other tables contain full-time equivalent figures that have been rounded to the nearest whole number. Because of rounding, there may be an apparent discrepancy between totals and the sums of the constituent items. (2) Staff with multiple responsibilities(or designations) are recorded under their ‘primary’ role or function. The traffic function includes staff who are predominantly employed on motorcycles or in patrol vehicles for the policing of traffic and motorway related duties. The does not include officers employed in accident investigation, vehicle examination and radar duties.

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Police: Sign Language

Mrs. Gillan: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department which police forces have procedures in place to provide British sign language interpreters and lipspeakers on a 24-hour basis for deaf people requiring assistance at police stations; and what steps her Department has taken to facilitate police force compliance with the requirements of the national agreement on arrangements for the use of interpreters, translators and language service professionals in investigations and proceedings within the criminal justice system, as revised in 2007. [218643]

Mr. McNulty: This information is not currently held centrally.

All chief officers of police have been issued with guidance on the use of the national agreement.

ACPO is aiming shortly to write further reminding forces of interpreting requirements for those requiring lip speakers and British Sign Language services. This is being done in partnership with the Office of Criminal Justice Reform, who are preparing an additional leaflet of guidance in respect of deaf people in the criminal justice system.

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