§ Mr. Gordon PrenticeTo ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department how many and what percentage of police officers were injured on duty in the most recent year for which figures are available, broken down by police force. [132888]
§ Mr. Charles ClarkeThe information is not held centrally in the form requested. The table shows
889Wthe number of police working days lost in 1998–99 due to injuries sustained by police officers as a result of assaults; andthe percentage of working days lost in that year due to injuries sustained by police officers as a result of assaults.
Number of working days lost due to assaults on police officers Assaults—days lost Percentage of police working days lost to assault Average police strength Total working days assuming 228 per officer based on average strength Derbyshire 356 0.09 1,777 405,224 Devon and Cornwall 974 0.15 2,946 671,592 Dorset 198 0.07 1,303 297,084 Durham 258 0.07 1,552 353,856 Dyfed-Powys 198 0.08 1,044 238,032 Essex 760 0.11 2,936 669,408 Gloucestershire 312 0.12 1,113 253,764 Greater Manchester 1,803 0.11 6,913 1,576,164 Gwent 501 0.18 1,250 285,000 Hampshire 63 0.01 3,470 791,160 Hertfordshire 717 0.18 1,752 399,456 Humberside 332 0.07 2,021 460,788 Kent 306 0.04 3,269 745,332 Lancashire 1,127 0.15 3,331 759,468 Leicestershire 424 0.09 2,037 464,436 Lincolnshire 174 0.07 1,171 266,988 Merseyside 926 0.09 4,373 996,930 Metropolitan police 6,324 0.10 26,566 6,057,048 Norfolk 202 0.06 1,426 325,128 North Wales 1,036 0.32 1,416 322,848 North Yorkshire 97 0.03 1,360 310,080 Northamptonshire 211 0.08 1,167 266,094 Northumbria 2,685 0.31 3,854 878,598 Nottinghamshire 748 0.15 2,248 512,544 South Wales 2,511 0.37 2,989 681,492 South Yorkshire 329 0.05 3,165 721,506 Staffordshire 441 0.08 2,279 519,498 Suffolk 30 0.01 1,195 272,460 Surrey 84 0.02 1,680 383,136 Sussex 514 0.08 2,962 675,336 Thames Valley 164 0.02 3,822 871,491 Warwickshire 163 0.08 925 210,786 West Mercia 438 0.09 2,033 463,524 West Midlands 3,326 0.20 7,250 1,653,000 West Yorkshire 3,210 0.28 5,053 1,152,084 Wiltshire 141 0.05 1,169 266,532 England and Wales Total 33,866 0.12 125,696 28,658,568 1 Not available