§ Mr. Corbynasked the Secretary of State for the Home Department what the latest available figures are for policy district Y and N in Islington per year for (a) people stopped and searched and (b) arrested without being charged; and what is the breakdown of these figures by police station.
§ Mr. HurdI understand from the Commissioner of Police of the Metropolis that the latest available information relates to 1983 and is as given in the following table. The table shows the number of persons or vehicles recorded as stopped; statistics showing the number of occasions on which a search was conducted are not available. Information on arrests not followed by a charge is not available. The information given for police stations relates to all stops in these station areas.
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Stops and Resultant Arrests in N and Y Districts of the Metropolitan Police District, 1983 Police station/district *Number of stops of persons or vehicles *Number of resultant arrests Highbury Vale 6,800 500 Holloway 8,600 2,000 Islington 5,300 400 Kings Cross 7,400 700 N District total 28,100 3,600 Cheshunt 2,300 100 Edmonton 3,700 500 Enfield 2,500 400 Highgate 700 † Hornsey 4,200 400 Muswell Hill 1,200 100 Ponders End 2,700 100 St. Annes Road 1,500 200 Southgate 2,700 200
Police station/district *Number of stops of persons or vehicles *Number of resultant arrests Tottenham 4,300 800 Woodgreen 5,200 700 Y District total 30,900 3,500 * The figures are rounded because they are based on information recorded in station registers for operational purposes and as this form of recording is unsuitable for the preparation of statistical summaries the resultant figures may be subject to some error. Components may not add to the total because they have been rounded independently. † Denotes less than 50.