§ Mr. McNamaraasked the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland whether the security statistics for the first six months of 1985 are now available together with details of persons charged with terrorist-type offences and convictions for scheduled offences for the year.
§ Mr. Hurd[pursuant to his reply. 24 July 1985]: Yes, the statistics, together with those since 1971, are as follows:
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1971 1972 1973 1974 1975 1976 1977 1978 Army/UDR 48 129 66 35 20 29 29 21 RUC/RUC'R' 11 17 13 15 11 23 14 10 Injuries Civilian 1,838 3,813 1,812 1,680 2,044 2,162 1,027 548 Army/UDR 390 578 548 483 167 264 188 135 RUC/RUC'R' 315 485 291 235 263 303 183 302 * Estimated weight only † Consolidated figures not available for earlier years
Statistics on Security—Part 1 (Yearly figures) 1979–85 1979 1980 1981 1982 1983 1984 January to June 1985 Shooting incidents* 728 642 815(327) 382(165) 290(134) 230(101) 101(27) Explosions 422 280 398 219 266 193 53 Bombs neutralised 142 120 131 113 101 55 32 Weight of explosives in lbs† 11,181 9,059 9,261 11,199 6,923 8,545 4,161 Explosions neutralised 4,530 6,405 9,168 7,300 7,503 6,114 2,072 Armed robberies 434 412 587 580 622 627 201 Amount stolen £568,359 £496,825 £854,929 £1,392,202 £830,258 £701,903 £269,999 Malicious fires‡ 315 275 536 499 528 840 433 Deaths Civilian 51 50 57 57 41 36 15 Army/UDR 48 16 23 28 15 19 3 RUC/RUC'R' 14 9 21 12 18 9 19 Injuries Civilians 557 530 878 328 280 513 208 Army/UDR 153 77 140 98 88 86 20 RUC/RUC'R' 165 194 332 99 142 267 111 * Figures in () refer to shots heard only and not included in the total † Estimated weight only ‡ No figure for April-June 1981
Statistics on security—Part II (yearly figures) Finds *Houses searched Firearms Ammunition (rounds) Explosives 1971 17,262 717 157,944 2,748 1972 36,617 1,264 183,410 41,488 1973 74,556 1,595 187,399 38,418 1974 71,914 1,260 147,202 26,120 1975 30,092 825 73,604 11,565 1976 34,939 837 70,306 21,714 1977 20,724 590 52,091 3,809
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Persons charged with terrorist type offences* Murder Attempted murder Firearms offences Explosives offences Theft act Other Total 31-July-31 December 1972 13 16 242 86 111 63 531 1973 71 85 631 236 186 205 1,414 1974 77 76 545 161 239 276 1,374 1975 138 88 460 100 314 97 1,197 1976 120 121 353 215 188 279 1,276 1977 131 135 301 146 203 392 1,308 1978 60 79 225 79 151 249 843 1979 45 39 177 40 159 210 670 1980 63 59 112 39 128 149 550 1981 48 72 155 39 158 446 918
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Finds *Houses searched Firearms Ammunition (rounds) Explosives 1978 15,462 400 43,512 2,108 1979 6,452 301 46,280 1,996 1980 4,406 203 28,078 1,810 1981 4,104 409 47,127 7,536 1982 4,045 317 41,452 5,066 1983 1,497 200 32,451 3,762 1984 1,282 197 17,211 8,534 1985 (January-June) 367 112 6,020 3,859 * Includes occupied and unoccupied houses searched.
Murder Attempted murder Firearms offences Explosives offences Theft act Other Total 1982 50 96 173 41 130 196 686 1983 75 60 150 48 119 161 613 1984 41 68 155 21 94 149 528 1985 (January-June) 21 19 56 15 40 91 247 * These figures are not available in consolidated form for earlier years.
Convictions for scheduled offences—January to June 1985 Offence Number convicted Non-custodial sentence Young offenders centre training schools Less than 5 years 5 years and less than 7 years 7 years and less than 10 years 10 years and less than 15 years 15 years and less than 20 years 20 years and over Life Murder 13 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 13 Attempted murder 16 1 0 0 0 3 3 6 3 0 Conspiracy to murder 3 0 0 0 2 0 1 0 0 0 Wounding with intent to do grievous bodily harm 1 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 Causing grievous bodily harm 2 0 0 2 0 0 0 0 0 0 Causing explosion 9 0 0 0 4 5 0 0 0 0 Placing explosive 1 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 Possessing explosives with intent 12 2 2 2 2 2 1 1 0 0 Other explosive offences 2 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 1 0 Possessing a firearm with intent 43 12 5 9 6 5 5 1 0 0 Possessing a firearm 17 7 4 5 1 0 0 0 0 0 Carrying a firearm with intent 6 0 0 3 3 0 0 0 0 0 Other major firearms offences 4 4 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 Minor firearms offences 3 0 2 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 Robbery 97 46 19 16 8 5 3 0 0 0 Aggravated robbery 4 2 2 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 Attempted robbery 20 9 3 8 0 0 0 0 0 0 Burglary 16 7 5 4 0 0 0 0 0 0 Membership of illegal organisations 5 4 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 Unlawful collection of information 2 2 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 Kidnapping and false imprisonment 7 3 0 3 1 0 0 0 0 0 Possession of an offensive weapon 2 0 2 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 Hijacking 15 10 2 3 0 0 0 0 0 0 Attempted hijacking 1 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 Arson 6 4 1 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 Petrol bomb offences 59 42 12 4 1 0 0 0 0 0 Intimidation 1 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 Withholding information 3 3 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 Possessing prohibited articles 2 2 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 Common law riot 3 0 3 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 Conspiracy to arm terrorists 1 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 Total 376 164 63 61 30 20 13 8 4 13 Notes:
1. The offence classifications are based on those used by the Crown and Peace Office in their annual return.
2. The tables relate to persons convicted at the Belfast Crown court. This covers all scheduled offences tried on indictment.
3. Some jury trials are included in cases where the Attorney-General certified out of the scheduled mode of trial, that is, non-terrorist serious offences.
4. Where a person has been convicted of more than one offence only the most serious or that which received the longest sentence is recorded in the statistics.