HC Deb 22 July 1971 vol 821 cc321-2W
33. Mr. Clinton Davis

asked the Secretary of State for the Home Department how many foreign police officers or trainee police officers are receiving training from police forces in England and Wales ; and from what countries they came.

Mr. Sharples

Sixty-nine police officers from overseas are at present receiving training from police forces in England and Wales, as follows :

Caribbean
Antigua 8
Dominica 1
Jamaica 2
St. Kitts 2
St. Lucia 2
Africa
Botswana 4
Lesotho 10
Malawi 1
Nigeria 3
Sierra Leone 4
Zambia 1
Indian Ocean
Seychelles 5
Mauritius 1
Far East
Brunei 2
Hong Kong 3
India 1
Nepal 2
Pacific
British Solomon Isles Protectorate 1
Fiji 2
Gilbert and Ellice Isles 1
Tonga 1
Mediterranean
Gibraltar 8
Israel 1
Northern Europe
Republic of Ireland 3

In addition, police officers from overseas are receiving training at the Police College and at forensic science laboratories.