HC Deb 10 March 1970 vol 797 cc299-300W
Mr. Pardoe

asked the Secretary of State for the Home Department if he will obtain from the chief constable a report as to how many assaults on police officers on duty took place in Cornwall in 1969.

Mr. Elystan Morgan

Comprehensive figures are not readily available. The chief constable tells me that there were 21 prosecutions in 1969 under Section 51(1) of the Police Act, 1964 for assaulting a constable in the execution of his duty.