Table B indicates that for the financial year 2007-08 the police in England and Wales spent 34.9 per cent. of its total budget (excluding sustaining overheads) on crime incident-specific activities. For the same specific offence groupings of robbery, criminal damage and sexual offending, the amount of budget spent by the police in England and Wales in 2007-08 on incident-specific activities, as a proportion of total police budget (excluding sustaining overheads), was 2.0 per cent., 2.2 per cent. and 2.6 per cent. respectively. As a proportion of total crime incident-specific budget spending, the figures were 5.7 per cent., 6.3 per cent. and 7.4 per cent. respectively. As before, there is no category of 'gang-related crimes'.
By way of context, Table C provides proportions of crime incidents of different types alongside the proportion of time and budgetary spend on crime devoted to these incident types. Thus it can be seen that, in 2007-08, robbery accounted for 1.7 per cent. of crime incidents, and 6.7 per cent. and 5.7 per cent. of police time and budgetary spend respectively. Criminal damage accounted for 21 per cent. of crime incidents, and 6.3 per cent. of both police time and budget. Sexual offences accounted for 1.1 per cent. of crime incidents, and 7.2 per cent. and 7.4 per cent. of police time and budget respectively.
Table A: Police time by activity, England and Wales( 1) , 2007-08
Percentage of time
Activity
England
Wales
Total
Dealing with crime incidents
Violence against the person-S20 and more serious
3.4
2.3
3.3
Violence against the person-S47 and less serious
4.0
4.2
4.0
Sexual offences
2.3
2.1
2.3
Burglary dwelling
2.8
2.8
2.8
Burglary-commercial and other
1.2
1.5
1.2
Robbery
2.2
0.9
2.2
Theft of or from motor vehicle
1.8
1.7
1.8
Deception/fraud
1.2
0.9
1.2
Theft other
3.3
3.0
3.3
Drugs offences
2.8
2.7
2.8
Criminal damage
2.0
3.2
2.1
Other crime
5.6
2.6
5.5
32.7
27.9
32.5
Dealing with non-crime incidents
RTA fatal/serious
1.0
0.9
1.0
RTA minor injury/damage
1.2
1.7
1.2
Traffic Other
2.4
3.8
2.5
Public disorder
1.9
2.8
2.0
Domestic dispute
2.1
2.4
2.2
Complaint/nuisance
0.9
2.5
1.0
Prostitution
0.1
0.0
0.1
False alarms
0.1
0.3
0.2
Missing person
1.1
1.7
1.2
Sudden/suspicious death
0.6
1.2
0.6
Other non crime
3.0
3.3
3.1
14.6
20.7
14.9
Non-incident related
Visible patrol
13.7
15.2
13.8
Court duties/escort
0.4
0.3
0.4
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Special operations/events
1.9
1.6
1.8
Investigate complaints
0.2
0.2
0.2
Deal with informants
0.4
0.0
0.3
Community involvement
1.3
1.3
1.3
Property inquiries
0.3
0.4
0.3
Non incident inquiries
1.5
1.6
1.5
Crime prevention activity
0.4
0.2
0.4
Prison interviews
0.1
0.0
0.1
Training
1.9
1.1
1.8
Briefings/meetings
6.6
7.2
6.6
Non-incident linked paperwork
7.4
7.0
7.4
Other non-incident related work
5.0
3.6
4.9
Staff development, appraisal, personnel-related
0.9
0.7
0.8
Monitoring cellblock PACE
0.3
0.2
0.3
Relief custody duties
0.4
0.8
0.4
Call handling/relief control room duties/inquiry desk
0.2
0.2
0.2
Checking paperwork (supervisory)
1.8
2.3
1.8
Budgetary/financial
0.1
0.1
0.1
ID parades
0.1
0.1
0.1
Other managerial/supervision
3.6
2.7
3.5
Refreshments
4.2
4.6
4.2
Waiting time
0.3
0.1
0.3
52.7
51.5
52.7
Total
100.0
100.0
100.0
(1) Excludes Staffordshire, as this force did not submit AA data for 2007-08.
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
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
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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
4,253,184
49
Total
8,721,439
100.00
(1) Excludes Staffordshire, as this force did not submit AA data for 2007-08.
