§ Mr. McNamaraasked the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland (1) how many people were detained each
Northern Ireland (Emergency Provisions) Act 1978 Number of persons arrested by H.M. Forces* Number of persons arrested by Royal Ulster Constabulary Number of persons subsequently charged: Scheduled Offences Non-Scheduled Offences 1978 (from 1 June) 1,884 1,186 276 53 1979 2,572 2,035 427 99 1980 1,629 1,719 340 81 1981 1,993 2,555 587 186 1982 1,288 †679 137 17 * Persons initially arrested by members of Her Majesty's forces and handed over to the Royal Ulster Constabulary may be subsequently rearrested by the police, and would in such cases appear both in the figures for arrests by Her Majesty's forces and those for arrests by the Royal Ulster Constabulary. † Up to 31 May. It would be disproportionately costly to correlate directly the number of arrests in any one year with the number subsequently convicted. However, records show that during the period 1 January 1977 to 31 December 1982, 4,860 persons were tried on indictment for scheduled offences and, of those, 4,475 were convicted.