§ 34. Mr. Meacherasked the Attorney-General in how many cases in the last 10 years the Department of Public Prosecutions has initiated prosecution following a complaint against the police alleging assault.
§ The Attorney-GeneralThe Director has readily available only the figures for the numbers of complaints leading to criminal proceedings; he is unable to provide the number of individual police officers prosecuted in each 203W year. The figures for 1980 are not yet available, but I refer the hon. Member to my answer to him of 5 December 1980.—[Vol. 995, c. 425–26.]
The figures for the 10 years 1970 to 1979 are:
Year Numbers 1970 19 1971 27 1972 35 1973 19 1974 30 1975 47 1976 33 1977 40 1978 62 1979 52