§ Mr. McNamaraTo ask the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland how many persons were charged with non-scheduled offences; how many were charged with
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Number of convictions1 of members of the security forces where firearms were used 1980 1981 1982 1983 1984 1985 1986 1987 21988 Regular Army 7 6 3 3 2 1 3 0 0 Ulster Defence Regiment 4 1 1 3 2 3 11 11 6 Royal Ulster Constabulary and Royal Ulster Constabulary (Reserve) 3 0 2 0 0 3 3 1 2 TOTALS 14 7 6 6 4 7 17 12 8 1 (i) Convictions cover offences committed both on and off duty. (ii) Information is not available where a person is discharged or his engagement is terminated before conviction or where he has left the service before committing the offence. 2 Up to 30 April. scheduled offences; and how many persons were found not guilty of all or some of the offences with which they were charged in each six-month period of 1987.
§ Mr. Stanley[holding answer 26 May 1988]: Statistics are not available in the precise form requested. The number of persons tried in the Crown court for scheduled and non-scheduled offences and the number of those people found not guilty of all offences in each half of 1987 were as follows:
First half Second half Numbers tried (a) Non-scheduled offences 689 504 (b) Scheduled offences 397 316 Numbers found not guilty of all offences (a) Non-scheduled offences 47 28 (b) Scheduled offences 18 15