§ Mr. PikeTo ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department how many officers have been dismissed from each constabulary over the last five years in each year.
§ Mr. Douglas HoggThe following table shows numbers of officers punished in disciplinary proceedings by dismissal from their force.
1981 1983 1984 1985 1986 Avon and Somerset — 2 — 2 3 Bedfordshire — — — — — Cambridgeshire 2 — — — — Cheshire — 1 — — — City of London — — — — — Cleveland 1 2 1 — — Cumbria — 1 — — 1 Derbyshire — 1 — — — Devon and Cornwall — — 1 — — Dorset — — — — — Durham — — — — — Dyfed-Powys — — — 2 — Essex — — — — 2 Gloucestershire — 1 — — — Greater Manchester 3 5 5 1 5 Gwent — — — 1 — Hampshire 1 3 — — — Hertfordshire — — — — — Humberside — 1 1 — — Kent — — — — 1 Lancashire — 5 1 — 2 Leicestershire — 1 — — — Lincolnshire — 1 — — — Merseyside — 1 3 — 2 Metropolitan 8 10 14 9 12 Norfolk — — — — — Northamptonshire — — — — — Northumbria 2 — — — — North Wales — 2 — — — North Yorkshire — — — 1 — Nottingham 1 — — — — South Wales — — — 2 2 South Yorkshire — — 1 — — Staffordshire — — — — — Suffolk — — — — — Surrey — — 1 2 1 Sussex — — — — 1 Thames Valley 2 1 1 1 2 Warwickshire 1 — — — — West Mercia — — — — — West Midlands — — 1 — 1 West Yorkshire — — 2 2 3 Wiltshire — — — — — Police Officers (Staff Wastage)
§ Mr. PikeTo ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department what was the percentage wastage as a344W proportion of the total number of officers employed by each constabulary for each of the last five years in each constabulary.
§ Mr. Douglas HoggThe available information is as follows. Separate information on each force outside the Metropolitan police could be obtained only at disproportionate cost. The number of police officers employed is calculated on the mean average of actual strength at the beginning and end of each year.
Year Average police strength Wastage (including transfers and secondments) Percentage of wastage over average police strength Police forces in England and Wales (excluding Metropolitan police) 1982 93,094 4,670 5.0 1983 92,983 4,585 4.9 1984 92,561 4,866 5.3 1985 92,403 5,111 5.5 1986 92,687 5,008 5.4 Metropolitan Police 1982 25,673 1,380 5.4 1983 26,500 1,246 4.7 1984 26,748 1,206 4.5 1985 26,736 1,370 5.1 1986 26,813 1,589 5.9