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Written question asked by Paul Burstow (Liberal Democrat) on Friday, 27 February 2009, in the House of Commons. It was due for an answer on Tuesday, 3 March 2009. It was answered by Lord Coaker (Labour) on Monday, 9 March 2009 on behalf of the Home Office.

Assaults on Police

Question
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department pursuant to the answer to the hon. Member for Bury St. Edmunds of 23 February 2009, Official Report, columns 132-3W, on assaults on police, what the equivalent figures are for (a) 2005-06 and (b) 2006-07; and if she will make a statement.
Answer

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 2005-06 and 2006-07 are given in the following 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 assaults¹:2005-06, 2006-07
2005-06 2006-07
Avon and Somerset n/a 21
Bedfordshire 184 178
Cambridgeshire 284 62
Cheshire 575 112
Cleveland n/a n/a
Cumbria 150 n/a
Derbyshire 351 236
Devon and Cornwall 990 334
Dorset n/a n/a
Durham 28 n/a
Dyfed-Powys 93 97
Essex 301 248
Gloucestershire 199 165
Greater Manchester 1,127 94
Gwent 417 n/a
Hampshire 302 252
Hertfordshire 85 186
Humberside 156 n/a
Kent 437 748
Lancashire 1,095 603
Leicestershire 193 274
Lincolnshire 88 211
London, City of 43 13
Merseyside 184 n/a
Metropolitan Police 18,577 7,647
Norfolk 41 67
Northamptonshire 4 29
Northumbria 290 905
North Wales 158 323
North Yorkshire n/a 137
Nottinghamshire 145 n/a
South Wales n/a n/a
South Yorkshire 160 104
Staffordshire 285 299
Suffolk 5 213
Surrey 32 20
Sussex 334 109
Thames Valley n/a n/a
Warwickshire 63 715
West Mercia 467 446
West Midlands 1,313 1,419
West Yorkshire 974 725
Wiltshire 37 n/a
n/a = Data not available. Force was not able to supply data at the time of collection.
Note:
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.

Secondary information

Type
Written question
Reference
489 c66-7W; 260629
Session
2008-09
Related items
Assaults on Police
Monday, 23 February 2009
Written questions
House of Commons
Subjects
Assaults on police
Contains statistics
Yes
Link
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