HC Deb 19 July 1990 vol 176 cc691-3W
Mr. Cohen

To ask the Secretary of State for Scotland 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 Lloyd

I have been asked to reply.

The information is as follows:

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

Force Numbers of transactions for the year up to June 1990 Proportion of transactions made to vehicle indices
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
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. Cohen

To ask the Secretary of State for Scotland 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.

Mr. Peter Lloyd

I have been asked to reply.

The 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:
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.

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