§ Mr. Dubsasked the Secretary of State for the Home Department, further to the figures on police stop and search operations in Peckham and Kensington quoted by the right hon. Member for Witney (Mr. Hurd) on 17 November during the Standing Committee of the Police and Criminal Evidence Bill, how many stops and searches took place, how many charges followed and how many convictions there were.
§ Mr. HurdSuch information as is readily available is summarised in tables 2 and 5 of Home Office research and planning unit paper I5, a copy of which is in the Library. In a two-month period in 1981, 2,238 and 1,074 persons were recorded as having been stopped by officers based at Kensington and Peckham police stations respectively. It is not known on how many of those occasions a search took place. Of those stopped in Kensington 206—9 per cent.—were subsequently prosecuted; in Peckham 82–8 per cent. It is not known how many of those prosecuted were convicted.