HL Deb 07 February 2000 vol 609 cc60-1WA
Lord Hardy of Wath

asked Her Majesty's Government:

What is the proportion of time lost because of (a) injuries sustained on duty and (b) sickness in each of the police forces in England during the last 12-month period for which statistics are available. [HL779]

The Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State, Home Office (Lord Bassam of Brighton)

Information is not held centrally in the form requested. The table shows:

  1. (i)the number of police working days lost in each force in 1998–99 due to injuries sustained by police officers as a result of assaults;

Number of working days lost due to sickness (and assaults on police officers)
Assaults—Days lost % of police working days lost to assault Police days lost due to sick leave %of police working days lost to sick Average police strength Total working days assuming 228 per officer based on average strength
Avon and Somerset 416 0.06 31,470 4.6 3,012 686,736
Bedfordshire 211 0.09 14,572 6.1 1,041 237,407
Cambridgeshire 412 0.14 15,393 5.3 1,295 295,260
Cheshire 331 0.07 28,452 6 2.111 481,308
City of London n/a n/a 10,449 5.9 790 180,120
Cleveland 285 0.08 17,486 5.4 1,471 335,388
Cumbria 129 0.05 11,732 4.5 1,160 264,480
Derbyshire 356 0.09 21,753 5.4 1,777 405,224
Devon and Cornwall 974 0.15 31,228 4.7 2,946 671,592
Dorset 198 0.07 12,967 4.4 1,303 297,084
Durham 258 0.07 15,974 4.4 1,552 353,856
Dyfed-Powys 198 0.08 9,966 4.3 1,044 238,032
Essex 760 0.11 38,748 5.9 2,936 669,408
Gloucestershire 312 0.12 12,964 5.1 1,113 253,764
Greater Manchester 1,803 0.11 97,682 6.3 6,913 1,576,164
Gwent 501 0.18 14,674 5.2 1,250 285,000
Hampshire 63 0.01 33,221 4.2 3,470 791,160
Hertfordshire 717 0.18 18,952 4.8 1,752 399,456
Humberside 332 0.07 17,142 3.8 2,021 460,788
Kent 306 0.04 36,500 5 3,269 745,332
Lancashire 1,127 0.15 39,188 5.3 3,331 759,468
Leicestershire 424 0.09 24,235 5.3 2,037 464,436
Lincolnshire 174 0.07 15,609 6 1,171 266,988
Merseyside 926 0.09 49,525 5.2 4,373 996,930
Metropolitan Police 6,324 0.10 289,791 4.9 26,566 6,057,048
Norfolk 202 0.06 16,333 5.1 1,426 325,128
North Wales 1,036 0.32 16,759 5.2 1,416 322,848
North Yorkshire 97 0.03 16,381 5.4 1,360 310,080
Northamptonshire 211 0.08 12,530 4.8 1,167 266,094
Northumbria 2,685 0.31 44,145 5 3,854 878,598
Nottinghamshire 748 0.15 31,128 6.1 2,248 512,544
South Wales 2,511 0.37 48,958 7.2 2,989 681,492
South Yorkshire 329 0.05 38,349 5.3 3,165 721,506
Staffordshire 441 0.08 28,418 5.6 2,279 519,498
Suffolk 30 0.01 11,668 4.3 1,195 272,460
Surrey 84 0.02 17,332 4.6 1,680 383,136
Sussex 514 0.08 31,918 4.9 2,962 675,336
Thames Valley 164 0.02 49,894 5.8 3,822 871,491
Warwickshire 163 0.08 12,495 6 925 210,786
West Mercia 438 0.09 22,796 5 2,033 463,524
West Midlands 3,326 0.20 88,341 5.3 7,250 1,653,000
West Yorkshire 3,210 0.28 59,911 5.3 5,053 1,152,084
Wiltshire 141 0.05 11,111 4.5 1,169 266,532
England and Wales Total 33,866 0.12 1,468,140 5.1 125,696 28,658,568