Written question asked by David Ruffley (Conservative) on Monday, 9 February 2009, in the House of Commons. It was due for an answer on Wednesday, 11 February 2009. It was answered by Lord Coaker (Labour) on Monday, 23 February 2009 on behalf of the Home Office.
Assaults on Police
- Question
- To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department how many sickness days were taken due to assault in each police force in 2007-08; how many days were lost per police officer on average due to assault in that year; and what the cost to each police force was.
- Answer
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The data provided here on sickness days due to assault are a supplementary series collected on behalf and released with the approval of Her Majesty's Inspectorate of Constabulary (HMIC). These data are normally used for inspection purposes only.The requested data for 2007-08 are given in the table.The requested information on days lost per officer and costs to each force are not collected centrally within the police personnel statistics series.
Number of police officer working days lost due to assaults¹: 2007-08 Number Avon and Somerset 566 Bedfordshire 219 Cambridgeshire 120 Cheshire 75 Cleveland 77 Cumbria ²— Derbyshire 143 Devon and Cornwall 188 Dorset ²— Durham 138 Dyfed-Powys 154 Essex 252 Gloucestershire 47 Greater Manchester 832 Gwent 122 Hampshire 191 Hertfordshire ²— Humberside ²— Kent 431 Lancashire 596 Leicestershire ²— Lincolnshire 344 London, City of 2 Merseyside 407 Metropolitan Police 5,848 Norfolk 162 Northamptonshire 6 Northumbria 1,075 North Wales 133 North Yorkshire ²— Nottinghamshire 179 South Wales ²— South Yorkshire 69 Staffordshire 174 Suffolk 208 Surrey 69 Sussex 276 Thames Valley ²— Warwickshire 24 West Mercia 354 West Midlands 1,166 West Yorkshire 691 Wiltshire ²— ¹ Provisional data taken from a supplementary series collected on behalf of HMIC and used for inspection purposes only. Data has not undergone usual quality assurance practices (including validation with individual police forces) and are therefore supplied for information purposes only. ² Data not available. Force was not able to supply data at the time of collection.
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- Written question
- Reference
- 488 c132-3W; 256743
- Session
- 2008-09
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- Subjects
- Assaults on police
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