HC Deb 02 March 1983 vol 38 cc147-8W
Mr. Proctor

asked the Secretary of State for the Home Department how many persons were arrested for assault

Population *aged under 17 of prison department establishments in England and Wales on 30 November 1982: by establishment, age, sex and category of prisoner
Untried Convicted unsentenced Sentenced
Establishment
15 16 15 16 14 15 16
MALES
Remand centres
Ashford — — — — — — 2
Brockhill 2 5 2 11 — 1 1
Cardiff 1 1 — — — 1 1
Glen Parva — 4 2 4 — — 2
Latchmere House 3 14 11 32 — 1 9
Low Newton 1 10 3 6 — — 1
Norwich 1 — — 1 — 1 1
Pucklechurch — 2 1 4 — — —
Risley 2 7 5 16 — — 1
Thorp Arch 5 7 5 13 — — 3
Winchester — 2 — — — — 1
Local prisons
Bedford — — — — — — 1
Birmingham — 1 — — — — 5
Canterbury — — 1 1 — — —
Leeds — — — — — 1 5

on police officers on duty in the Brixton police division in each of the past seven months; if he will give a breakdown of these figures in terms of the ethnic appearance of the persons arrested; and if he will make a statement.

Mr. Mayhew

[pursuant to his reply, 11 February 1983, c. 494]: We understand from the Commissioner of Police of the Metropolis that the available information relating to serious assaults on police officers is as given in the following table. Statistics for the summary offence of "assault on a constable" are not available on a comparable basis but local records show that during the period July to December 1982, 29 persons were charged with such offences of whom nine were of white skinned appearance, 19 of black skinned appearance, and one was of an appearance not clearly recorded; these figures exclude persons also charged with a serious assault on a police officer on the same occasion.

Persons arrested* for notifiable offences of violence against the person, the victim of which was a police officer, by ethnic appearance Brixton police division July to December 1982
Ethnic appearance of person arrested
White skinned persons Black skinned persons Appearance not recorded Total
July to September 3 9 1 13
October to December 5 9 — 14
* Persons arrested and proceeded against by means of a charge, referred to a juvenile bureau, a caution or in some other way; arrests not followed by any action are not included. Also excluded are persons proceeded against for assaults committed in the course of or following an arrest for another offence.