§ Mr. Kaufmanasked the Secretary of State for the Home Department (1) for each year since 1979, for each police authority in England and Wales, what is the number of persons fingerprinted against their will;
615W(2) if he will publish a breakdown for the year 1984 of the numbers of persons in each police force area in England and Wales detained by the police for up to six hours, six to 12 hours, 12 to 18 hours, 18 to 24 hours and longer than 24 hours before being charged with an offence;
(3) if he will call for reports from the relevant chief constables as to how many persons were the subject of intimate body searches by the police in each year since 1979 in each police force area in England and Wales.
§ Mr. Giles ShawThe information requested is not available. For the future, section 50 of the Police and Criminal Evidence Act 1984 will require chief officers of police to publish in their annual reports information about the number of people kept in police detention for more than 24 hours and subsequently released without charge; the number of applications for warrants of further detention and the results of these applications; and, in relation to each warrant of further detention, the period of further detention authorised under it, the period which the detained person spent in police detention under its authority, and whether he was charged or released without charge. Section 55 of the Act will require chief officers of police to publish in their annual reports information about the total number of intimate searches, the number conducted by a suitably qualified person, the number not so conducted but conducted in the presence of such a person, and the result of these searches. The information will also include, as separate items, the total number of drug offence searches and their results. These provisions will be implemented on 1 January 1986.