§ Mr. CohenTo 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 vehicles indexes of the police national computer. [26397]
§ Lord James Douglas-HamiltonThe information requested is set out in the table.
Police forces Accesses Percentage vehicles Central Scotland 178,710 48.0 Dumfries and Galloway Fife 171,484 60.4 Fife 171,149 52.7 Grampian 323,399 47.0 Lothian and Borders 830,210 63.1 Northern 148,029 42.4 Strathclyde 1,477,896 42.8 Tayside 311,142 47.4
§ Mr. CohenTo ask the Secretary of State for Scotland how many accesses were made to each index of the police national computer over the last year, indicating the number of access requests that involved searching more than one index. [26396]
§ Lord James Douglas-HamiltonData on the police national computer are stored on five databases. The number of transactions made by Scottish police forces, including transactions involving additional or retrial of information or both, undertaken on each database in the 12 months to 30 April 1995 is shown in the table. It is not possible to confirm whether transactions undertaken on separate databases are linked, with the exception of those undertaken on both the names and the fingerprint databases. There were 8,994 transactions which involved the use of both of these databases.
Number Vehicles 1,780,205 Stolen property 18,205 Names 1,655,442 Fingerprints 9,748 Crime Pattern Analysis 0