§ Mr. RuaneTo ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department how many complaints there were against the police for(a) racial harassment and (b) abuse by police authority in the last 20 years. [139601]
§ Mr. Charles ClarkeInformation is not available in precisely the form requested. Data collected centrally on a financial year basis include complaints of racial discrimination and complaints of oppressive behaviour by the police. Data for completed complaints are available from 1992. Prior to 1992, available figures do not include the Metropolitan police service.
The information from 1992 is shown in the table:
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Completed complaints of: Year Racially discriminatory behaviour Oppressive behaviour 1992 461 16,559 1993 450 16,474 1994 608 16,666 1995–96 620 16,850 1996–97 634 17,320 1997–98 566 16,599 1998–99 575 14,457 1999–2000 895 13,014
§ Mr. RuaneTo ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department how many reported cases of drunkenness there were in each police authority in the past 10 years. [139600]
§ Mr. Charles ClarkeThe number of cases of drunkenness reported to the police are not collected centrally.
Available information held centrally showing the number of offenders cautioned or found guilty of offences of drunkenness is given in the table.
Due to disproportionate costs, selected years only are given.
Number of 'known offenders'1 for offences of drunkenness by police force area 1990, 1994, 1997, 1998 and 1999 Police force area 1990 1994 1997 1998 1999 Avon and Somerset 623 204 361 481 542 Bedfordshire 237 347 355 489 374 Cambridgeshire 301 433 222 192 196 Cheshire 647 761 919 1,063 929 City of London 260 170 123 21 30 Cleveland 709 1,084 2,075 1,372 1,167 Cumbria 760 504 1,007 1,036 1,010 Derbyshire 577 165 387 372 327 Devon and Cornwall 1,387 1,268 1,769 1,557 1,485 Dorset 700 264 274 405 348 Durham 445 226 418 527 557 Essex 465 571 1,028 887 800 Gloucestershire 148 101 175 266 185 Greater Manchester 3,099 2,546 2,278 2,316 1,903 Hampshire 2,008 1,365 1,836 1,954 1,849 Hertfordshire 249 132 493 643 646 Humberside 500 234 345 298 324 Kent 577 741 963 1,167 1,412 Lancashire 1,547 1,523 2,870 2,806 3,038 Leicestershire 128 116 115 83 82 Lincolnshire 342 55 692 831 770 Merseyside 5,864 6,356 8,064 8,602 6,567 Metropolitan police 40,823 19,024 2,412 1,940 1,946 Norfolk 312 203 266 224 191 Northamptonshire 426 424 279 293 260 Northumbria 4,256 4,072 7,113 6,417 6,392 North Yorkshire 386 264 410 456 492 Nottinghamshire 510 351 545 529 543 South Yorkshire 3,233 1,648 1,877 1,704 1,909 Staffordshire 905 494 599 547 388 Suffolk 336 428 719 547 505 Surrey 177 191 245 401 565 Sussex 715 1,126 1,069 1,043 834 Thames Valley 1,987 1,443 1,350 1,435 1,252 Warwickshire 60 78 259 387 260 West Mercia 835 984 1,334 1,106 967 West Midlands 1,802 2,330 1,570 1,186 670 West Yorkshire 2,673 1,419 1,946 2,400 2,406 Wiltshire 498 673 686 770 598 Dyfed-Powys 307 249 382 420 340 Gwent 1,347 1,061 1,234 953 878 North Wales 685 788 980 1,277 1,278 South Wales 2,549 1,474 2,431 2,184 1,805 England and Wales 86,395 57,890 54,475 53,587 49,020 1Those cautioned or convicted at all courts. Note:
Changes in the number of persons cautioned or found guilty for drunkenness offences including the variations between police force areas are likely to reflect changes or variations in police practice, as well as actual changes or variations in the level of drunkenness. To a large extent, they reflect changes in the Metropolitan police, which has fallen from 47 per cent. in 1990 to 4 per cent. in 1999 of the total England and Wales 'known offenders'. In 1995 the Metropolitan police introduced informal warnings for offences of drunkenness.
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