HC Deb 16 December 1994 vol 251 cc828-9W
Mr. Butler

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department how many hours annually, on average, a police constable spends(a) on operational duties and (b) undergoing training in England and Wales as a whole and in each individual police force.

Mr. Maclean

I regret that information on time spent on operational duties is not available. In 1991–92, the latest year for which figures are available, police constables in England and Wales spent, on average, 14.8 days in training. The figures for individual forces are as follows:

Force Average training days
Avon and Somerset 15
Bedfordshire 16
Cambridgeshire 15
Cheshire 11
City of London 21
Cleveland 16
Cumbria 18
Derbyshire 6
Devon and Cornwall 17
Dorset 17
Durham 12
Dyfed-Powys 15
Essex 20
Gloucestershire 20
Greater Manchester 17
Gwent 12
Hampshire 11
Hertfordshire 14
Humberside 22
Kent 24

Force Average training days
Lancashire 15
Leicestershire 18
Lincolnshire 14
Merseyside 12
Metropolitan 13
Norfolk 18
Northamptonshire 16
Northumbria 8
North Wales 8
North Yorkshire 18
Nottinghamshire 16
South Wales 14
South Yorkshire 15
Staffordshire 19
Suffolk 12
Surrey 20
Sussex 19
Thames Valley 16
Warwickshire 12
West Mercia 18
West Midlands 15
West Yorkshire 12
Wiltshire 22

Note:

Training lasting for less than half a day is not recorded.