§ Mr. ButlerTo 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. MacleanI 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:
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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.