Blood Sports (Hansard, 10 January 1995)

§ Mr. Simpson
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department if he will make a statement as to the cost of policing blood sport events.

§ Mr. Maclean
The deployment of police officers to specific duties is a matter for the chief officer of police. Details of the costs of policing field sports are not held centrally.

§ Mr. Simpson
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department how may arrests have been made at blood sport events since the implementation of the Criminal Justice and Public Order Act 1994.
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§ Mr. Maclean
Information on the number of people arrested for specific offences is not collected centrally.
Information on cautioning and court proceedings data under sections 68 and 69—summary offences of aggravated trespass—of the Criminal Justice and Public Order Act 1994 will not be available until autumn 1996.