§ Mr. Russell Johnstonasked the Secretary of State for the Home Department whether he will make an estimate of the relative proportion of time and money spent by the police in the pursuit of offences connected with motoring compared with crimes against the person.
§ Mr. MayhewInformation in the form requested on the allocation of police officer time and expenditure is not available centrally and could not readily be obtained. The proportion of police establishments allocated to particular functions varies from force to force. It was recently estimated that, in England and Wales as a whole, about 10 per cent. is employed in traffic divisions and about 14 per cent. in CID. In addition, the uniform branch—about 70 per cent. of force establishments—work on criminal incident and traffic matters.