§ Mr. CohenTo ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department how many accesses were made to each index of the police national computer over the last year; and how many of the access requests could search more than one index.
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§ Mr. Peter LloydThe total number of accesses to each of the indices of the police national computer in the year to 30 June 1990 was as follows:
Index Number of Accesses 1. Stolen and Suspect Vehicles 21,370,168 2. Vehicle Owners 3. Chassis/Engine Numbers 508,710 4. Fingerprints 200,917 5. Fingerprints (Scene of Crime) 13,658 6. Criminal Names 1,094,072 7. Wanted/Missing Persons 2,134,554 8. Disqualified Drivers 765,081 9. Convictions 902,277 10. Major Investigations 5,921 11. Crime Pattern Analysis 279,711 There have also been the following joint accesses:
Number To indices 6 and 91 1,996,349 To indices 6, 7 and 9 1,687,245 To indices 6, 7, 8 and 9 8,265,989 To indices 4, 6 and 9 652,426 1 All accesses to the criminal names index will in addition automatically generate information from the convictions application.
§ Mr. CohenTo ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department what information he has as to the number of accesses made to the police national computer by each constabulary over the last year; and what was the proportion of access requests made to the vehicle indexes of the police national computer.
§ Mr. Peter LloydThe information is as follows:
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Force Numbers of transactions for the year up to June 1990 Proportion of transactions made to vehicle indices Avon and Somerset 928,045 60.5 Bedfordshire 376,446 66.9 British Transport Police 141,988 42.1 Cambridgeshire 375,627 60.7 Central 141,178 51.6 Cheshire 436,687 62.1 City of London 101,987 58.8 Cleveland 331,288 55.8 Cumbria 366,151 62.9 Derbyshire 448,074 61.1 Devon and Cornwall 730,000 55.6 Dorset 457,665 59.6 Dumfries and Galloway 106,837 59.0 Durham 350,553 53.1 Dyfed-Powys 241,976 48.3 Essex 892,740 60.1 Fife 137,425 56.4 Gloucestershire 359,446 68.0 Grampian 265,928 49.4 Greater Manchester 2,271,199 57.3 Guernsey 19,249 10.5 Gwent 187,118 46.3 Hampshire 877,175 59.4 Hertfordshire 463,569 46.5 Humberside 529,245 60.2 Isle of Man 20,547 52.9 Jersey 33,476 10.1 Kent 1,198,384 60.7 Lancashire 1,126,272 58.4 Leicestershire 397,810 55.4 Lincolnshire 267,208 61.3 Lothian and Borders 610,533 59.4 Merseyside 932,268 55.6 Metropolitan 7,597,182 48.4
Force Numbers of transactions for the year up to June 1990 Proportion of transactions made to vehicle indices Norfolk 392,549 63.5 North Wales 309,407 51.3 North Yorkshire 440,309 65.6 Northamptonshire 319,903 67.8 Northern 103,454 52.0 Northumberland 990,490 66.7 Nottinghamshire 650,988 71.8 South Wales 842,909 59.2 South Yorkshire 684,321 70.4 Staffordshire 398,871 58.4 Strathclyde 1,289,244 33.8 Suffolk 288,693 58.7 Surrey 370,132 61.8 Sussex 791,593 51.8 Tayside 318,767 50.7 Thames Valley 1,232,066 57.4 Warwickshire 312,924 68.7 West Mercia 498,609 57.5 West Midlands 2,240,914 62.8 West Yorkshire 1,407,148 54.6 Wiltshire 286,988 64.0
§ Mr. CohenTo ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department what is the current size of each category found in the stolen and suspect vehicle index of the police national computer; and what was the minimum and maximum size of each category in the index over the year.
§ Mr. Peter LloydThe information is as follows:
Category Current Minimum Maximum Confirmed lost or obtained by deception 397,420 307,408 397,420 Lost or Stolen 406,337 406,337 411,018 Obtained by deception 88 78 88 Found 28,284 28,284 28,572 Removed 13,035 12,980 14,063 Street to Street 121 121 162 Repossessed by Finance Company 0 0 0 Suspect 128 122 128 Police Vehicle 3,621 3,621 3,704 Blocked 6,328 6,323 6,410 Information 16,752 16,327 16,877 Seen 7,490 7,348 8,357
§ Mr. CohenTo ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department what is the current size of each index of the police national computer; and what was the minimum and maximum size of each index over the last year.
§ Mr. Peter LloydThe information is as follows:
Index Current Minimum Maximum Vehicle owners 43,846,016 41,386,599 43,846,016 Stolen vehicles 489,162 469,874 489,162 Chassis-engine numbers 823,393 791,850 823,393 Wanted/Missing persons 117,805 112,011 117,805 Cross reference 983,949 964,898 985,202 Disqualified drivers 375,708 367,864 377,057 Convictions 3,249,407 2,929,865 3,249,407 Criminal names 5,582,320 5,457,187 5,582,320 Fingerprints 4,094,626 4,004,441 4,094,626 Crime pattern analysis 110,214 103,149 110,214 Extremists crime index 1,202 1,118 1,202 Major investigations 328,426 326,360 328,426
§ Mr. CohenTo ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department what is the current size of each category666W found in the wanted and missing persons index of the police national computer; and the minimum and maximum size of each category in the index over the year.
§ Mr. Peter LloydThe information is as follows:
Category Current Wanted 33,031 Fails to Appear 33,083 Suspect 215 Impending Prosecution 49 Deserter 1,552 Locate 42,299 Missing 2,513 Found 13 Absconder—from care 574 —from hospital 66 —from detention 2 —from youth custody 134 —from prison 934 —from remand 5 —from school 47 Recall—from detention 0 —from youth custody 1 —from prison 320 A record of the minimum and maximum size of each category over the past year has not been maintained and the information is therefore not available.