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Assaults on Police

Answer

The available information on recorded offences relates to 2005-06 to 2007-08 and is given in the following table. The data covers offences of assault without injury on a police constable. Offences in which police officers suffer injury will be recorded as a more or less serious wounding offence depending on the severity of the injury sustained.

Recorded offences of assault without injury on a constable per 100,000 population
	Rate per 100,000 population
Police force area	2005-06	2006-07	2007-08
Avon and Somerset	56	56	47
Bedfordshire	50	56	19
Cambridgeshire	58	41	46
Cheshire	36	37	35
Cleveland	52	54	70
Cumbria	44	41	52
Derbyshire	13	15	13
Devon and Cornwall	20	29	24
Dorset	42	31	34
Durham	51	50	37
Dyfed-Powys	42	49	49
Essex	41	25	27
Gloucestershire	52	43	36
Greater Manchester	45	37	28
Gwent	43	61	57
Hampshire	51	53	55
Hertfordshire	60	53	50
Humberside	50	47	47
Kent	44	47	39
Lancashire	53	46	44
Leicestershire	49	35	32
Lincolnshire	29	36	39
London, City of	¹—	¹—	¹—
Merseyside	50	53	59
Metropolitan Police	40	45	43
Norfolk	49	46	44
Northamptonshire	42	39	31
Northumbria	44	46	26
North Wales	27	33	37
North Yorkshire	55	37	44
Nottinghamshire	31	34	31
South Wales	40	34	32
South Yorkshire	33	37	39
Staffordshire	60	40	40
Suffolk	48	43	45
Surrey	33	34	34
Sussex	52	50	55
Thames Valley	41	37	36
Warwickshire	49	55	55
West Mercia	25	23	23
West Midlands	13	13	12
West Yorkshire	39	40	31
Wiltshire	22	16	17
England and Wales	41	40	37
¹ Not applicable because of the resident population relative to the transient population.

Secondary information

Type

Written question

Reference

486 c1480-1W; 247151

Session

2008-09

Subjects

Assaults on police

Contains statistics

Yes

Link

View this Written question on www.publications.parliament.uk