§ Mr. Couchmanasked the Secretary of State for the Home Department if he will call for a report from the chief constable of Kent as to progress with inquiries into allegations of malpractice regarding the compilation of crime clear-up statistics for Kent.
§ Mr. Giles ShawNo. The allegations are being investigated by a commander of the Metropolitan police under the supervision of the Police Complaints Authority.
It will be open to the Police Complaints Authority to draw my attention to any matters of a general nature arising from the investigation into Constable Walker's allegations. On the separate, but related, point of the system for the write-off of crimes, in order to improve our understanding of how offences are cleared up the Home Office has recently introduced a return which separates offences cleared up as a result of interviews with convicted prisoners from other offences cleared up without proceedings or the administration of a caution.