§ Mr. Cohenasked the Secretary of State for the Home Department if he will make a statement about the experimental use of the system known as crime pattern analysis at the police national computer.
§ Mr. Giles ShawI refer the hon. Member to paragraphs 4.26 to 4.28 of the report of Her Majesty's Chief Inspector of Constabulary for 1983 (HC528) and to
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Notifiable Offences of Violence against the Person Recorded by the Police England Number of offences Police force area 1983 1984 1 QTR 2 Qtr 3 Qtr 4 Qtr 1 Qtr 2 Qtr Avon and Somerset 500 600 720 590 550 620 Bedfordshire 380 380 470 430 400 460 Cambridgeshire 280 290 290 280 260 280 Cheshire 360 420 490 470 380 430 Cleveland 370 400 480 370 370 420 Cumbria 220 230 250 240 210 210 Derbyshire 450 540 570 580 480 540 Devon and Cornwall 440 590 730 600 470 610 Dorset 200 260 230 190 160 210 Durham 320 410 390 370 350 330 Essex 550 640 700 600 540 650 Gloucestershire 160 240 240 210 170 210 Greater Manchester 1,440 1,550 1,610 1,450 1,320 1,590 Hampshire 630 670 790 700 650 660 Hertfordshire 230 310 380 420 270 270 Humberside 640 780 870 720 700 770 Kent 510 550 610 560 450 580 Lancashire 380 540 550 730 400 490 Leicestershire 430 510 490 500 450 470 Lincolnshire 240 260 280 310 230 290 London City of 30 30 40 60 60 40 Merseyside 900 1,120 1,140 1,080 1,010 1.020 Metropolitan Police 3,720 4,590 4,870 4,640 4,170 4.570 Norfolk 220 260 310 270 200 230 Northamptonshire 290 340 320 280 280 330 Northumbria 800 870 990 990 900 1,010 North Yorkshire 180 290 280 340 230 280 Nottinghamshire 910 1,170 1,260 1,170 840 1,110 South Yorkshire 870 890 1,040 950 830 890 Staffordshire 630 820 870 1,120 790 880 Suffolk 200 310 260 290 220 250 Surrey 240 300 340 320 280 280 Sussex 410 520 640 500 420 480 Thames Valley 580 760 870 740 680 810 Warwickshire 160 170 190 160 110 180 West Mercia 410 510 570 500 470 480 West Midlands 1,520 1,840 2,000 1,880 1,650 2,000 West Yorkshire 1,210 1,480 1,530 1,450 1,320 1,560 Wiltshire 240 310 350 290 280 310 England 22,250 26,770 29,000 27,370 23,540 26,800 the reply I gave to a question from the hon. Member for Islington, North (Mr. Corbvn) on 13 November, at column 9. The effectiveness of this application, which is in use on a trial basis, is being kept under review.