§ Mr. McNamaraasked the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland if he will give details of the number of prisoners in Northern Ireland at the end of 1982 and 1983, respectively, indicating the age of the prisoner in two-yearly bands, their sex, the nature of the offence for which they were convicted, scheduled and non-scheduled, and the average length of sentence still to be served by each prisoner.
§ Mr. ScottThe information is not available in the precise form requested, but the following details relating to sentenced prisoners — including inmates detained in young offenders centres—held on 1 December 1983 are available. The figures in brackets relate to those held on 1 December 1982.
over 60 years, giving the breakdown of the length of sentence being served by percentage of the total prison population.
§ Mr. McNamaraasked the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland (1) how many people were detained in 1982 and 1983 by month under the Northern Ireland (Emergency Provisions) Act 1978 and charged with criminal offences scheduled and otherwise categorised by (a) the principal offence with which originally charged and (b) the outcome of the proceedings on that charge;
(2) how many people in 1982 and 1983, respectively, were arrested under the Emergency Provisions Act 1978; how many persons arrested under that Act were detained for the following periods: (a) up to 12 hours, (b) 12 to 24 hours, (c) 24 to 36 hours, (d) 36 to 48 hours, (e) 48 to 60 hours and (f) 60 to 72 hours, indicating those numbers (i) not ultimately charged under the Act, (ii) charged under the Act and (iii) charged with an offence but not under the Act, indicating under which Act charged and with what offence.
§ Mr. ScottThis information is not available in the form requested, but the following details are available:
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1982 Jan. Feb. March April May June July August Sept. October Nov. Dec. Deaths RUC — — 1 1 1 1 — — — 3 1 — RUC 'R' — — — — — — — — — 2 2 — Army — — 3 3 1 — — — 3 — — 11 UDR 1 — — 1 — 1 — — — 2 1 1 Civilians 7 1 3 6 2 2 2 4 6 5 9 10 Total 8 1 7 11 4 4 2 4 9 12 13 22 Injuries RUC 3 1 14 9 3 3 14 13 10 1 2 4 RUC 'R' — 1 2 3 1 2 2 3 3 3 — 2 Army 2 7 5 8 2 — 7 4 8 5 4 28 UDR 2 3 3 — 3 1 2 1 1 — 2 — Civilian 26 27 47 48 29 49 11 24 17 10 17 23 Total 33 39 71 68 38 55 36 45 39 19 25 57 Explosions 7 15 19 48 18 32 16 18 10 11 8 17 Weight (in lbs) 30 694 1,186 3,751 75 3,493 206 127 374 623 166 476 Neutralisations 5 16 12 10 14 12 9 8 7 6 9 5 Weight (in lbs) 24 1,419 1,368 507 40 1,075 164 17 461 878 645 700 Shooting* Incidents involving SF 17 15 19 16 15 18 17 28 7 27 18 15 not involving SF 21 13 14 18 19 16 8 19 15 11 9 7 Total 38 28 33 34 34 34 25 47 22 38 27 22 Armed Robberies 60 59 59 39 33 29 23 36 39 35 66 102 Amount stolen (£) 91,672 91,239 85,538 45,688 300,246 97,311 46,118 97,805 126,596 139,711 54,728 215,550
Arrests under the Northern Ireland (Emergency Provisions) Act 1978 Number of persons arrested by Her Majesty's forces* Number of persons arrested by Royal Ulster Constabulary Number of persons subsequently charged Scheduled offences Non-Scheduled offences 1982 1,288 1,901 311 39 1983 476 †747 †91 †26 * Persons initially arrested by members of Her Majesty's forces and handed over to the Royal Ulster Constabulary may be subsequently rearrested by the police, and would in such cases appear both in the figures for arrests by Her Majesty's forces and those for arrests by the Royal Ulster Constabulary. † To 1 August. It would be disproportionately costly to correlate directly the number of arrests in any one year with the number of persons subsequently convicted. However, records show that 813 persons were proceeded against for scheduled offences in 1982, and of these 756 were found guilty. Figures for 1983 are not yet available.