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Table B: Police spend by activity, England and Wales( 1) , 2007-08
Activity	Spend (£000)	Spend (percentage)
Dealing with crime incidents
Violence against the person-S20 and more serious	395,906	4.50
Violence against the person-S47 and less serious	346,819	4.00
Sexual offences	226,678	2.60
Burglary dwelling	259,262	3.00
Burglary-commercial and other	130,232	1.50
Robbery	170,458	2.00
Theft of or from motor vehicle	195,493	2.20
Deception/fraud	130,792	1.50
Theft other	273,557	3.10
Drugs offences	271,550	3.10
Criminal damage	187,576	2.20
Other crime	452,835	5.20
Total	3,041,159	35
Dealing with non-crime incidents
RTA fatal/serious	76,905	0.90
RTA minor injury/damage	105,163	1.20
Traffic Other	243,729	2.80
Public disorder	235,011	2.70
Domestic dispute	175,446	2.00
Complaint/nuisance	99,671	1.10
Prostitution	7,876	0.10
False alarms	13,058	0.10
Missing person	112,040	1.30
Sudden/suspicious death	81,260	0.90
Other non crime	276,938	3.20
Total	1,427,097	16
Non-incident related
Visible Patrol	1,207,838	13.80
Court duties/escort	35,643	0.40
Special operations/events	225,440	2.60
Deal with informants	39,985	0.50
Community Involvement	169,188	1.90
Property inquiries	32,032	0.40
Non incident inquiries	135,039	1.50
Crime prevention activity	64,865	0.70
Prison interviews	7,332	0.10
Role Code-National, international policing, CT and Special Branch	474,839	5.40
Role Code-Crime partnerships	90,021	1.00
Role Code-Maintaining and developing partnerships	35,687	0.40
Role Code-Intelligence Research and Analysis	368,101	4.20
Role Code-Prisoner handling/custody	399,657	4.60
Role Code-Call handling/inquiry office	603,164	6.90
Role Code-Licensing	23,475	0.30
Role Code-Criminal Justice	273,753	3.10
Role Code-Police protection	21,014	0.20
Role Code-Family liaison	19,830	0.20
Role Code-Warrants	16,581	0.20
ID parades	9,698	0.10
Total	8,721,439	49
Grand total	4,253,184	100.00
(1) Excludes Staffordshire, as this force did not submit AA data for 2007-08.

Table C: Proportions of crime incidents, crime incident-related activity and crime incident-related spend by crime type, England and Wales( 1) 2007-08
	Percentage
Crime incident type	Crime incidents	Time on crime incidents	Budget on crime incidents
Violence against the person-S20 and more serious	0.5	10.3	12.9
Violence against the person-S47 and less serious	18.8	12.4	11.5
Sexual offences	1.1	7.2	7.4
Burglary dwelling	5.7	8.6	8.6
Burglary-commercial and other	6.2	3.7	4.3
Robbery	1.7	6.7	5.7
Theft of or from motor vehicle	13.3	5.4	6.3
Deception/fraud	3.2	3.7	4.3
Theft other	22.3	10.1	8.9
Drugs offences	4.6	8.6	8.9
Criminal damage	21.0	6.3	6.3
Other crime	1.4	17.0	14.9
Total	100.0	100.0	100.0
(1) Excludes Staffordshire, as this force did not submit AA data for 2007-08.

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Police: Bureaucracy

Chris Grayling: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department what proportion of police officer time was spent on each type of activity in (a) England and (b) Wales in the latest period for which figures are available. [319518]

Alan Johnson: Table A contains the percentages of police officer time spent on different activities for the financial year 2007-08 for England and Wales. To reduce paperwork burdens on police officers the collection of data about time spent by officers on police activities ceased after 2007-08 in response to the recommendations by Sir David Normington in his review of data burdens placed by the Government on the police service published in February 2009. Activities are grouped according to whether they are related to crime incidents, related to non-crime incidents (e.g. road traffic accidents), or not related to specific incidents. In this last case, these activities could be related to crime (e.g. prison interviews), or to general police duties and activities (e.g. training).

The Policing Green Paper published in July 2008 introduced a robust programme to reduce bureaucracy and free-up officer time. This is enabling front line staff to focus on dealing with the public's priorities, as measured against the confidence target-now the only top-down target on forces.

Table A indicates that, in 2007-08, the police in England spent 32.7 per cent. of their time on all crime incident-specific activities, 14.6 per cent. of their time on all non-crime incident specific activities, and 52.7 per cent. of their time on activities which were not related to specific incidents (although some of this will be crime-related).

The comparative figures for Wales are 27.9 per cent., 20.7 per cent. and 51.5 per cent. respectively.

Overall, in 2007-08, police in England and Wales spent 32.5 per cent. of their time on all crime incident-specific activities, 14.9 per cent. of their time on all non-crime incident specific activities, and 52.7 per cent. of their time on activities which were not related to specific incidents.

For the specific offence groupings of robbery, criminal damage and sexual offending, the amount of time spent by the police in England and Wales in 2007-08 on incident-specific activities, as a proportion of total police time, was 2.2 per cent., 2.1 per cent. and 2.3 per cent. respectively. As a proportion of total crime incident-specific time, the figures were 6.7 per cent., 6.3 per cent. and 7.2 per cent. respectively. There is no category of 'gang-related crimes'.

Table B contains police spend on different activities for the financial year 2007-08. As before, crime and non-crime incident-specific activities are differentiated. The categorisation of non-incident specific activities is different in Table B from Table A, however. Table B does not include costs of activities such as training, which are instead treated as overheads and included in the costs of all other activities. Further, Table B separates out some activities which are undertaken by particular staff or roles (e.g. 'intelligence analysis and research')-these are not included in Table A, as activity analysis covered only police officers working on foot, car or beat patrol, CID and traffic duties. Note that costs in Table B do not include 'sustaining overheads' such as running costs for the Association of Chief Police Officers (ACPO).

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