§ Mr. Kilroy-Silkasked the Secretary of State for the Home Department if he will indicate for each police force area, for the last year for which figures are available, the number of stops and searches made under section 23(2) of the Misuse of Drugs Act 1971 and, in each case, the number of persons charged.
§ Mr. Hurd[pursuant to his reply, 22 February 1984, c. 527]: The information requested about the number of 470W persons stopped and searched is given in the following table. Information is not collected centrally about the numbers charged as a result of these stops and searches.
Persons stopped and searched under section 23(2) of the Misuse of Drugs Act 1971, by police force area.
England and Wales 1982 Police force Number of persons Avon and Somerset 1,205 Bedfordshire 28 Cambridgeshire 613 Cheshire 239 Cleveland 60 Cumbria 525 Derbyshire 369 Devon and Cornwall 736 Dorset 430 Durham 215 Essex 169 Gloucestershire 294 Greater Manchester 1,799 Hampshire 345 Hertfordshire 853 Humberside 141 Kent 759 Lancashire 217 Leicestershire 580 Lincolnshire 315 London, City of 127 Metropolitan Police District *12,471 Merseyside 1,020 Norfolk 86 Northamptonshire 131 Northumbria 140 North Yorkshire 73 Nottinghamshire 216 South Yorkshire 313 Staffordshire 116 Suffolk 494 Surrey 614 Sussex 1,369 Thames Valley 221 Warwickshire 95 West Mercia 502 West Midlands 262 West Yorkshire 248 Wiltshire 781 Dyfed-Powys 180 Gwent 461 North Wales 204 South Wales 564 TOTAL 30,580 * This figure is based on information recorded in station registers for operational purposes and as this form of recording is unsuitable for the preparation of statistical summaries the resultant figure may be subject to some error.