Figures for the years before 2006-07 relate to the previous pay-as-you-go system of financing, under which police pensions were paid out of forces' operating accounts. Information about the level of pensions expenditure net of officer contributions is included in the annual reports published by the Chartered Institute of Public Finance and Accountancy (CIPFA). This information is gathered independently of the Home Office.
Police: Recruitment
Mr. Ruffley:
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department how many (a) applicants and (b) recruits there were to each police force in 2007-08. [256696]
Mr. Coaker:
The information is as follows.
(a) The requested data are given in Table 1.
(b) The requested data are given in Table 2.
Table 1: Number( 1) of formal application forms( 2) received by police forces, 2007-08
Number
Avon and Somerset
n/a
Bedfordshire
456
Cambridgeshire
21
Cheshire
165
Cleveland
n/a
Cumbria
431
Derbyshire
1,310
Devon and Cornwall
463
Dorset
n/a
Durham
n/a
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Dyfed-Powys
n/a
Essex
1,262
Gloucestershire
n/a
Greater Manchester
4,972
Gwent
1,031
Hampshire
1,968
Hertfordshire
659
Humberside
441
Kent
2,521
Lancashire
4,370
Leicestershire
435
Lincolnshire
1,020
London, City of
850
Merseyside
550
Metropolitan Police
5,498
Norfolk
n/a
Northamptonshire
749
Northumbria
2,590
North Wales
346
North Yorkshire
n/a
Nottinghamshire
279
South Wales
n/a
South Yorkshire
893
Staffordshire
n/a
Suffolk
n/a
Surrey
n/a
Sussex
936
Thames Valley
n/a
Warwickshire
n/a
West Mercia
1,005
West Midlands
3,451
West Yorkshire
2,149
Wiltshire
n/a
n/a = Data not available. Force was not able to supply data at the time of collection. (1) Provisional management information data collected for planning purposes only. Data have not undergone usual quality assurance practices (including validation with individual police forces) and are therefore supplied for information purposes only. (2) Does not include informal expressions of interest. Some forces no longer send out and receive paper application packs and instead receive electronic applications via the www.policecouldyou.co.uk website. Where forces receive application packs from other means it is not always possible to separately identify the number of paper application packs received, and in such cases forces have been instructed to return a zero response.
(1) Recruits included those officers joining as Police Standard Direct Recruits and those who were previously Special Constables. This excludes police officers on transfers from other forces and those rejoining. (2) Full-time equivalent figures that have been rounded to the nearest whole number.
Police: Standards
Chris Grayling:
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department what (a) reports and (b) data sets each police force is required to submit to her Department each (i) month and (ii) year. [254816]
Jacqui Smith:
The following table contains details of the 2009/10 Annual Data Requirement (ADR) from police forces in England and Wales. The ADR details the statutory requirements for data from police forces that are made under the Home Secretary's powers under the Police Act 1996.
The Policing Green Paper announced that Sir David Normington, Permanent Secretary to the Home Office, would lead a review of the data collection burden placed on police forces in England and Wales by the Home Office. The aim of the review is to reduce the burden by up to 50 per cent. The report of the review, ‘Reducing the Data Burden on Police Forces in England and Wales’, was published on 16 February 2009 and includes proposals for:
cutting out altogether or significantly reducing 36 data streams;
a two-year moratorium on requests for new data collection; and
a new ‘Gateway' process to limit requests for data which fall outside the statutory Annual Data Requirement.
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The outcome of the review will have an immediate impact on the Annual Data Requirement made of police forces for 2009-10.
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(b) Data requirements each police force is required to submit monthly, quarterly, bi-annually and annually for the 2009-10 financial year
Frequency of returns
Additional information
Notifiable offences
Homicide
Annual
Returns submitted on completion
Recorded Crime
Monthly
Arrests
Quarterly
Firearms Offences
Monthly
Quarterly
Annual
Use of PACE powers
Quarterly
Annual
Racist Offences
Quarterly
Annual
Use of knives and other sharp instruments
Quarterly
Vehicles stolen during robberies and domestic burglaries
Quarterly
Disposals
Magistrates courts proceedings and cautions
Returns submitted on completion
Motoring Offences
Annual
Penalty notices for disorder—issued and outcomes
Monthly
Police activities (tests, issue of certificates and other activities)
Breath tests
Annual
Issue of certificates—firearms and explosives
Annual
Deaths in police custody
Collected by Independent Police Complaints Commission (IPCC). Returns submitted on completion.
Setting up of cordons under the Terrorism Act
Annual
Road traffic accidents: casualties
Returns submitted on completion
Number of incidents recorded through National Standard for Incident Recording (NSIR)
Monthly
Drug seizures
Returns submitted on completion
Performance measures and Her Majesty's Inspectorate Constabulary (HMIC)
Quarterly
Annual
User satisfaction
Quarterly
Forensic data
Quarterly
Warrants (failure to appear)
Monthly
Recording of all stops
Quarterly
Prolific and other priority offenders
Monthly
Police personnel
Police personnel
Bi-annual
Annual
Commendation, complaints and discipline
Annual
Collected by Independent Police Complaints Commission (IPCC)
