HC Deb 02 February 1990 vol 166 cc386-7W
Mr. Cohen

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department whether he will list for each year since 1979, the countries from Latin America and from nondemocratic states, that have sent delegations of police officers or military to study the police technology, crowd control techniques and computers used by United Kingdom police forces.

Mr. Peter Lloyd

The table gives details of all centrally recorded visits by police officers and associated civilian personnel from overseas to study police technology, computers or crowd control techniques since 1980:

Year Technology Computers Crowd Control
1983 Oman New Zealand
Pakistan Sri Lanka
Israel
Japan
1984 Gabon Australia Australia
Kuwait Zimbabwe
Singapore Canada
Pakistan
Oman
1985 Greece Kenya Turkey
Australia Australia
Japan
1986 Indonesia Australia Canada
Tanzania Australia
Guyana
1987 North Cyprus Uruguay
Zambia Mexico
1988 France Portugal France
Malawi Kenya Botswana
India West Germany
Australia Belgium
Hungary Netherlands
Netherlands
1989 Brazil Israel Nigeria
Spain India Brazil
Portugal Australia Pakistan
United Arab Emirates Saudi Arabia Tunisia
Sri Lanka Australia
Belgium