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Home Office

Answer

Mr. Allan: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department how many persons were arrested at (a) Heathrow airport and (b) other United Kingdom airports for offences contrary to (i) Section 1 of the Criminal Attempts Act 1981 or (ii) Section 3 of the Forgery and Counterfeiting Act 1981, in (1) 1995-96, (2) 1996-97 and (3) 1997-98. [51603] Mr. Mike O'Brien: This information is not normally collected centrally. However the Metropolitan police have been able to provide information on persons accused-- that is, a count of persons arrested and subsequently proceeded against. The information relates to persons accused in the Heathrow division of attempting to commit a notifiable offence and those accused under sections 3 and 4 of the Forgery and Counterfeiting Act 1981. The information is given in the table. To obtain similar information from all police forces which have an airport located in their area would incur disproportionate cost, since manual searches through individual records would be required. _________________________________________________________________________________________________. Persons accused at Heathrow 1995-96 1996-97 1997-98 airport Accused of attempting to commit a 201 232 206 notifiable offence Accused of offences under 50 43 66 sections 3 and 4 of the Forgery and Counterfeiting Act 1981 _________________________________________________________________________________________________.

Secondary information

Type

Written question

Reference

51603; 316 c621W

Session

1997-98

Subjects

Arrests Airports Forgery Heathrow Airport Inchoate offences Metropolitan Police

Contains statistics

Yes