§ Mr. RosindellTo ask the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland how many Catholics have joined the Police Service of Northern Ireland since its creation. [154848]
§ Jane KennedyI am advised that as at 1 February of this year, 544 Catholics had been appointed to the Police Service of Northern Ireland as recruits since its creation.
§ Mr. RosindellTo ask the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland how many successful applicants to join the Police Service of Northern Ireland are awaiting training. [154849]
§ Jane KennedyThe Police Service of Northern Ireland is currently in the process of appointing candidates from its fifth recruitment campaign, which was launched in March 2003. Thirty nine candidates have been appointed and have commenced training. There are currently 861 qualified candidates from the fifth competition, although some applicants are still in the process of going through security vetting and this number may increase.
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§ Mr. DonaldsonTo ask the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland how many applications were received for recruitment to the Police Service of Northern Ireland in each of the recruitment campaigns held in 2003. [155503]
§ Jane KennedyI am advised that competition 5, which was launched in March 2003, attracted 6,044 applications; competition 6, which was launched in September 2003, attracted 5,419 applications.
§ Mr. DonaldsonTo ask the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland how many applications were received from(a) Protestants, (b) Roman Catholics and (c) others in each recruitment campaign for the Police Service of Northern Ireland in 2003. [155504]
§ Jane KennedyOf the 6,044 applications received for competition 5, launched in March 2003, 3,747 were of a perceived Protestant background, 2,194 were of a perceived Catholic background and 103 were not determined.
Of the 5,419 applications received for competition 6, launched in September 2003, 3,406 were of a perceived Protestant background, 1,909 were of a perceived Catholic background and 104 were not determined.
§ Mr. DonaldsonTo ask the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland how many(a) Protestants, (b) Roman Catholics and (c) others were successful in entering the merit pool for each of the campaigns for recruitment to the Police Service of Northern Ireland in 2003; and how many applicants in each category were subsequently offered a place on the training course following completion of each recruitment campaign. [155505]
§ Jane Kennedy1,096 qualified candidates formed the pool for competition 5. Of this number, 778 were of a perceived Protestant background, 307 were of perceived Catholic background and 11 were not determined.
Appointments from competition 5 started in January 2004. So far, 83 qualified candidates have been appointed as police trainees. 45 of these appointments were of perceived Protestant background, 38 were of perceived Catholic background and none were classified as not determined.
The pool of qualified candidates for competition 6 will not be formed until April.
§ David BurnsideTo ask the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland what the total cost to date is of implementing the Patten Report on policing in Northern Ireland. [154867]
§ Jane KennedyIt is not possible to provide the precise total cost to date of implementing the Patten Report on policing in Northern Ireland. The costs associated with the police early retirement/severance scheme and implementation of specific projects related to some of the individual recommendations from 1 April 2000 to December 2003 amount to some £197 million. Moreover there would have been other costs, which cannot be exactly identified, incurred by PSNI from its grant in support of the implementation of Patten.
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§ David BurnsideTo ask the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland how many officers of the full-time police reserve have been(a) killed and (b) injured (i) on duty and (ii) off duty in each year since its formation. [154868]
§ Jane KennedyThe information requested is not available in the format requested. The following tables set out the statistic available.
Full-time reserve officers who were killed or died on duty Reason Death accident gun shot Death by terrorist Death non-terrorist Death traffic accident Grand total 1975 0 2 0 0 2 1976 0 3 0 0 3 1977 0 2 0 0 2 1978 0 1 0 0 1 1979 0 1 0 0 1 1981 0 2 0 0 2 1982 0 2 0 0 2 1983 0 5 0 0 5 1984 0 2 0 0 2 1985 0 7 0 0 7 1986 0 2 0 1 3 1987 1 1 0 0 2 1988 0 2 0 0 2 1989 0 1 0 2 3 1990 0 2 0 0 2 1992 0 1 0 0 1 1993 0 2 0 0 2 1994 0 0 0 1 1 1997 0 1 0 0 1 2000 0 0 1 0 1 2003 0 0 0 1 1
Full-time reserve officers who were killed or died off duty Reason Death accident gun shot Death accident Death by terrorist Death non-terrorist Death traffic accident Total 1976 1 0 1 0 0 2 1978 0 1 0 0 0 1 1979 0 0 1 0 1 2 1980 0 1 1 0 0 2 1981 0 0 1 0 1 2 1986 0 0 0 0 2 2 1987 1 0 2 0 0 3 1988 0 0 0 1 5 6 1989 1 0 1 0 1 3 1990 1 1 2 0 0 4 1993 0 0 1 0 2 3 1994 0 0 0 0 1 1 1995 0 0 0 0 1 1 1999 1 0 0 0 0 1 2000 0 0 0 0 1 1 2003 0 0 0 0 1 1 Note: If a year is not listed it is because no officer was killed or died in that particular year 172W
Full-time reserve officers injured on duty Number injured on duty 1986 3 1987 3 1988 11 1989 7 1990 76 1991 361 1992 401
Full-time reserve officers injured on duty Number injured on duty 1993 426 1994 344 1995 474 1996 509 1997 529 1998 570 1999 616 2000 609 2001 640 2002 455 2003 221 Total 6,255 It should be noted that records were computerised in the late 1980's and the PSNI can only stand over the figures from 1991.