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Foreign and Commonwealth Office

Answer

Mr. Key: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department if he will list the police constabularies contributing police officers and civilians to the European Union Police Mission in Bosnia and Herzegovina; how many each is seconding; and what the cost is to (a) each constabulary and (b) central government. [83398] Mr. Rammell: I have been asked to reply The following list gives details of those police constabularies contributing officers to the European Union Police Mission from 1 January 2003. All constabularies are providing one officer unless otherwise indicated. Cornwall Avon and Somerset; Bedfordshire; Cheshire x3; City of London; Derbyshire; Devon and ; Dorset; Durham; Gloucestershire; Grampian; Greater Manchester x2; Hampshire x2; Kent; Lancashire; Lincolnshire x2; Mersey side x4; Metropolitan x4; North Wales; North Yorkshire x3; Northamptonshire; South Wales x3; South Yorkshire; Surrey x2; Thames Valley; Warwickshire; West Midlands x6; West Yorkshire x2; Wiltshire The constabularies do not incur any costs as a result of seconding officers who are all volunteers and seconded with the agreement of Chief Constables. The full reimbursement of salary to constabularies and the travel, equipment and insurance costs of seconding officers are met by the joint MOD, FCO and DfID Global Conflict Prevention Pool. The cost for next financial year is estimated at just over 3 million .

Secondary information

Type

Written question

Reference

83398; 395 c417W

Session

2002-03

Subjects

Costs Police Peacekeeping operations Police authorities Rule of law Secondment Bosnia and Herzegovina EU external relations EU Police Mission

Contains statistics

Yes

Link

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