HC Deb 26 April 1991 vol 189 c560W
Mr. Chris Smith

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department if he will call for a report from the Commissioner of Police of the Metropolis as to the percentage of(a) police personnel and (b) police financial resources that are devoted in the Metropolitan area overall to (i) foot patrols, (ii) traffic regulation, (iii) parking regulation and (iv) diplomatic, royal and VIP protection.

Mr. Peter Lloyd

I understand that the available information is as follows. Fourteen per cent. of available police man-days are devoted to foot patrols, including home beats and other street duties, 3.3 per cent. to protection duties and 3.5 per cent. to traffic and parking regulation combined.

Twenty-six per cent. of Metropolitan Police current expenditure is devoted to patrol, which includes officers engaged on foot patrols, home beats, vehicle patrols, and dog handlers and mounted branch officers engaged on local patrol, 6.6 per cent. to traffic and parking regulation combined, which includes the work of the traffic warden service, and 3.4 per cent. to protection duties.