HC Deb 19 December 1969 vol 793 cc452-3W
Mr. Eldon Griffiths

asked the Secretary of State for the Home Department if he will list for the years 1964, 1965, 1966, 1967, 1968 and 1969 the number of occasions on which firearms are recorded as having been fired at or in the vicinity of police officers on duty.

Mr. Elystan Morgan

In 1968 there were 12 offences in England and Wales in which police officers were shot at. Similar information is not available for earlier years or, as yet, for 1969.

Mr. Eldon Griffiths

asked the Secretary of State for the Home Department if he will list for the years 1964 to 1969, inclusive, the number of occasions on which attacks with knives or similar offensive weapons have been made on policemen on duty.

Mr. Elystan Morgan

This information is not available.