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Home Office

Answer

Mr. Paice: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department if he will list the performance of each constabulary in recording conviction data on the police national computer under the court results 90 per cent. data targets for the latest month available. [90306] Mr. Denham: [holding answer 14 January 2003]: The particular data to which the hon. Member refers relates to recording not only convictions but all court results. It shows the time taken from the completion of court proceedings to record the quickest 90 per cent. of cases entered during the period in question. The data reflects the longest time taken to record any case within the quickest 90 per cent. The figures include the time taken by courts to notify results to the police, and will be affected by factors such as delays due to a need to clarify results, or undertaking back record conversion exercises. The following table shows the results for forces in England and Wales in December 2002. The average figure for the nine-month period from April to December 2002 was 71 days. This compares with an average of 220 days for the period from April 2000 to March 2001, and of 196 days for the period between April 2001 to March 2002. We have made clear our determination that the timeliness of inputting data onto the police national computer should be improved. Her Majesty's Inspectorate of Constabulary (HMIC) reported (Police National Computer Data Quality and Timeliness-- Second Report December 2002) that substantial progress had been made following the inspection and review exercise that we commissioned, but that more needed to be done. To this end, we are working with the Association of Chief Police Officers to implement HMIC's recommendations. _________________________________________________________________________________________________. Constabulary/Force Number of days Avon and Somerset 20 Bedfordshire 25 Cambridgeshire 56 Cheshire 45 City of London 145 Cleveland 419 Cumbria 19 Derbyshire 14 Devon and Cornwall 14 Dorset 20 Durham 53 Dyfed Powys 30 Essex 20 Gloucestershire 290 Greater Manchester 82 Gwent 84 Hampshire 59 Hertfordshire 66 Humberside 18 Kent 131 Lancashire 36 Leicestershire 30 Lincolnshire 94 Merseyside 49 Metropolitan 248 Norfolk 18 North Wales 23 North Yorkshire 90 Northamptonshire 155 Northumbria 11 Nottinghamshire 35 South Wales 30 South Yorkshire 30 Staffordshire 20 Suffolk 14 Surrey 47 Sussex 80 Thames Valley 22 Warwickshire 45 West Mercia 27 West Midlands 164 West Yorkshire 54 Wiltshire 69 _________________________________________________________________________________________________.

Secondary information

Type

Written question

Reference

90306; 399 c71-2W;399 c72-3W

Session

2002-03

Subjects

Databases Criminal records Computers Convictions Administrative delays Police Police authorities Standards Police national computer

Contains statistics

Yes

Link

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