HC Deb 01 July 2003 vol 408 cc248-9W
Mr. Allan

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department how many Livescan terminals used to access the National Automated Fingerprint Identification System are deployed, broken down by police authority. [121118]

Ms Blears

A total of 176 Livescan units are deployed among police forces in England and Wales. Broken down by police authority, they are as follows:

Police authority Number of Livescan units
Avon and Somerset 2
Bedfordshire 3
British Transport Police 2
Cheshire 1
Cumbria 4
Devon and Cornwall 6
Dorset 3
Essex 11
Gloucestershire 3
Gwent 5
Hampshire 8
Lancashire 5
Lincolnshire 1
Leicestershire 1
Manchester 22
Merseyside 7
Metropolitan police 53
Northumbria 7
North Wales 3
Nottingham 11
South Yorkshire 11
South Wales 4
Surrey 5
Sussex 6

Police authority Number of Livescan units
Thames Valley 3
West Mercia Worcester 1
West Midlands 11
Wiltshire 4
West Yorkshire 13
Livescan units in the field 176
1These units are on trial.

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