§ Mr. VazTo ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department how many complaints have been made about police officers in each police area in each of the last five years; and how many have been upheld. [31055]
§ Mr. DenhamComplaints and Discipline Statistics are published annually in a Home Office Statistical Bulletin. The latest statistics relating to 2000–01 were published on 14 November 2001 in issue number 21/01. Details are given in the following tables:
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Complaints received by the police 1996–97 1997–98 1998–99 1999–2000 2000–01 Warwickshire 165 180 206 194 205 West Mercia 506 517 454 578 410 West Midlands 1,681 1,676 1,590 1,868 1,884 West Yorkshire 966 864 796 871 795 Wiltshire 162 185 259 230 266 Dyfed-Powys 202 183 180 148 157 Gwent 427 446 505 557 487 North Wales 392 353 381 439 297 South Wales 965 723 752 733 747 Total 33,859 33,335 30,659 31,854 28,969
Complaints against the police upheld 1996–97 1997–98 1998–99 1999–2000 2000–01 Avon and Somerset 15 26 28 16 27 Bedfordshire 14 3 11 9 6 Cambridgeshire 23 42 15 28 18 Cheshire 16 11 17 11 10 Cleveland 13 2 12 0 5 Cumbria 2 1 7 7 0 Derbyshire 26 5 8 2 7 Devon and Cornwall 14 38 26 24 22 Dorset 3 6 7 3 5 Durham 7 5 1 5 4 Essex 14 22 25 6 12 Gloucestershire 12 12 3 11 5 Greater Manchester 22 20 20 30 40 Hampshire 30 22 24 22 20 Hertfordshire 15 12 10 8 20 Humberside 8 18 9 14 14 Kent 27 26 24 26 63 Lancashire 30 12 15 13 26 Leicestershire 10 15 10 5 13 Lincolnshire 12 6 6 5 7 London City of 7 5 6 4 3 Merseyside 11 7 12 6 36 Metropolitan police 203 236 146 168 138 Norfolk 26 11 28 11 17 Northamptonshire 9 1 6 9 7 Northumbria 8 12 6 3 12 North Yorkshire 13 10 27 20 16 Nottinghamshire 15 13 1 12 26 South Yorkshire 3 13 11 18 14 Staffordshire 7 9 6 20 34 Suffolk 12 11 24 11 5 Surrey 7 5 17 7 17 Sussex 33 23 31 54 79 Thames Valley 27 32 23 37 45 Warwickshire 6 6 4 6 9 West Mercia 14 6 23 13 11 West Midlands 23 61 47 26 38 West Yorkshire 54 26 13 13 19 Wiltshire 2 27 5 3 11 Dyfed-Powys 1 3 1 5 4 Gwent 7 3 5 3 8 North Wales 5 9 14 7 13 South Wales 28 17 11 13 17 Total 834 850 745 714 903