§ Chris RuaneTo ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department (1) if he will list the 10 prosecutions that have resulted from automatic number plate recognition technology that have led to the highest value of drug seizures; [175244]
(2) how many and what types of prosecution have resulted from cars being stopped by automatic number plate recognition cameras in North Wales since their introduction; [175245]
(3) how many prosecutions have led to prison sentences as a result of the use of automatic number plate recognition technology; [175246]
(4) how many cars were stopped by automatic number plate recognition technology in each police authority area since their introduction. [175247]
§ Ms BlearsData listing the 10 prosecutions that resulted from vehicles being stopped by Automatic Name Plate Recognition (ANPR) dedicated police intercept teams that led to the highest value of drug seizures are not held centrally. However, between 1 June 2003 and 16 May 2004, the latest date for which figures are available, the following number of arrests carried out by the 23 police forces involved in ANPR Project Laser Two for drug-related offences, were as follows:
ANPR drug-related arrests Number of arrests 1,082 Number of occasions 686 Value of drugs recovered (£) 432,124.00 The table gives a breakdown of the number and type of arrest made as a result of vehicles being stopped by the North Wales police ANPR intercept teams between 1 June 2003 and 16 May 2004:
Arrest breakdown Number Robbery 2 Theft/burglary 75 Driving 249 Drugs 182 S25 112 Auto Crime 51 Warrant 53 Other 57 Details of how many prosecutions led to prison sentences as a result of ANPR are not held centrally.
1768WData on the number of vehicles stopped by ANPR in each police authority area since its introduction are not held centrally. The number of vehicles stopped in each of the 23 ANPR Project Laser Two police forces between 1 June 2003 and 16 May 2004, the latest date for which figures are available, were as follows:
Number Avon and Somerset 5,692 Cambridgeshire 7,818 City of London 4,871 Cleveland 2,317 Greater Manchester police 14,612 Hampshire 5,767 Hertfordshire 4,911 Kent 9,896 Lancashire 10,596 Leicestershire 9,233 Lincolnshire 10,303 Merseyside 6,431 Metropolitan 17,435 Northamptonshire 6,688 Northumbria 3,731 North Wales 10,227 North Yorkshire 4,214 Nottinghamshire 2,532 Staffordshire 5,078 Warwickshire 4,503 West Midlands 7,247 West Yorkshire 8,322