HC Deb 10 December 1991 vol 200 cc399-400W
Dr. Godman

To ask the Secretary of State for Scotland if he will list by police authority(a) the population covered by that authority, (b) the police force establishment of that authority, (c) the total arrests made in that authority, (d) the number of arrests per officer, (e) the total number of reported crimes, (f) the number of crimes per officer, (g) the total number of crimes per 1,000 population and (h) the total number of unsolved crimes per 1,000 population in each of the past three years.

Lord James Douglas-Hamilton

The information requested at(a), (b), (e), (f) and (g) is set out in the tables 1 to 5. Information on arrests requested at (c) and (d) is not collected centrally. Neither is information on unsolved crimes collected centrally, but table 6 shows the total number of crimes cleared up per 1,000 population which may be compared with the number of crimes recorded.

Table 1
Population by police authority
Police authority Estimated population covered by each police authority as at
30 June 1988 30 June 1989 30 June 1990
Central 271,526 271,400 272,100
Dumfries and Galloway 147,482 147,600 148,400
Fife 344,717 344,800 345,900
Grampian 501,394 503,500 506,100
Lothian and Borders 943,771 845,600 853,100
Northern 274,624 274,100 276,800
Strathclyde 2,316,739 2,311,200 2,306,000
Tayside 393,748 392,500 394,000
Total 5,094,001 5,090,700 5,102,400
Table 2
Police establishment by police authority
Police authority Authorised police establishment as at
30 June 1988 30 June 1989 30 June 1990 30 June 1991
Central 589 638 638 643
Dumfries and Galloway 344 344 344 361
Fife 754 754 754 780
Grampian 1,069 1,116 1,116 1,158
Lothian and Borders 2,435 2,439 2,441 2,487
Northern 620 631 631 631
Strathclyde 6,954 6,954 6,954 6,954
Tayside 1,001 1,001 1,001 1,057
Total 13,766 13,877 13,879 14,071
Table 3
Total number of crimes recorded by the police
Police authority 1988 1989 1990
Central 19,379 21,066 22,957
Dumfries and Galloway 7,039 6,733 8,096
Fife 25,050 27,690 30,706
Grampian 33,567 34,034 37,070
Lothian and Borders 77,522 78,301 87,548
Northern 12,318 11,841 13,132
Police authority 1988 1989 1990
Strathclyde 259,666 275,134 293,655
Tayside 35,445 38,586 42,700
TOTAL 469,986 493,385 535,864
Table 4
Total number of crimes recorded per officer
Police authority 1988 1989 1990
Central 33 33 36
Dumfries and Galloway 20 20 24
Fife 33 37 41
Grampian 31 30 33
Lothian and Borders 32 32 36
Northern 20 19 21
Strathclyde 37 40 42
Tayside 35 39 43
TOTAL 34 36 39

Note: The number of officers is based on the force establishment.

Table 5
Total number of crimes recorded per 1,000 population
Police authority 1988 1989 1990
Central 71 78 84
Dumfries and Galloway 48 46 55
Fife 73 80 89
Grampian 67 68 73
Lothian and Borders 92 93 103
Northern 45 43 47
Strathclyde 112 119 127
Tayside 90 98 108
TOTAL 92 97 105
Table 6
Total number of crimes cleared up per 1,000 population
Police authority 1988 1989 1990
Central 34 36 39
Dumfries and Galloway 24 23 23
Fife 29 31 32
Grampian 23 24 24
Lothian and Borders 35 36 36
Northern 29 27 29
Strathclyde 31 33 34
Tayside 38 40 45
TOTAL 31 32 34

Note: Information is collected on the number of crimes cleared up each year. Crimes cleared up may have been committed in previous years.

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