HC Deb 20 March 1980 vol 981 cc249-50W
Mr. Nicholas Winterton

asked the Secretary of State for the Home Department how many police officers were killed outright or fatally injured in the course of their duty for each year since 1970 up to the latest year for which figures are available.

Mr. Leon Brittan

According to central records the figures for England and Wales are as follows:

1970 9
1971 10
1972 7
1973 12
1974 4
1975 5
1976 5
1977 13
1978 14
1979 10

Mr. Nicholas Winterton

asked the Secretary of State for the Home Department how many police officers were forced to retire from the police force as a result of injuries sustained in the course of their duty for each year since 1970 up to the latest year for which figures are available; and what was the compensation paid to each police officer sustaining such injuries.

Mr. Brittan

Comprehensive information is not held centrally. As I said in reply to a question by my hon. Friend the Member for Paddington (Mr. Wheeler) on 12 February—[Vol. 978, c. 521.]—information on retirements in 1979 is being sought from chief constables.