Fire Service Staff (Shrewsbury) (Hansard, 28 April 2003)

HC Deb 28 April 2003 vol 404 c238W 238W

§ Mr. Paul Marsden
To ask the Deputy Prime Minister how many Fire Service staff based in Shrewsbury fire station were subjected to(a) verbal and (b) physical attacks in the last year. [109675]

§ Mr. Raynsford
The information is not available centrally about individual fire stations, but in 2000–01, there were five incidents involving firefighters in the Shropshire Brigade. These were:

Number

Missile throwing 1

Criminal damage 1

Assaults 2

Other¹ 1

¹ Fireworks thrown at a crew.

None of the assaults resulted in injury requiring absence from work and none of the incidents resulted in prosecution or conviction.

	Number
Missile throwing	1
Criminal damage	1
Assaults	2
Other¹	1
¹ Fireworks thrown at a crew.