HC Deb 04 February 2002 vol 379 cc672-3W
Mr. Vaz

To 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. Denham

Complaints 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:

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