§ Mr. Deakinsasked the Secretary of State for the Home Department what criteria he uses to assess the value for 341W money provided by the activities of the fraud investigation squad of the Metropolitan police in the absence of information about the number of investigations which result in conviction.
§ Mr. Douglas HoggThis is an operational matter for the Commissioner of Police of the Metropolis. For the kind of information collected to indicate how effectively the Metropolitan and City police company fraud branch is performing I refer the hon. Member to page 45 of the report of the Commissioner of Police of the Metropolis for 1985 (Cmnd. 9790). The number of convictions is not necessarily a useful indicator because of the length of time between charge or summons and conviction.