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Miss Richardson
asked the Secretary of State for the Home Department, in the light of circular 74/1978 to chief officers of police concerning section 62 of the Criminal Law Act 1977, whether he will give (a) the total number of arrests in each force area under this section to date, (b) the total number of cases in which, following a request under section 62, the proviso has been applied and the result has been that the arrested person has been detained at the police station or other place of custody for four hours or more without an attempt being made to convey the intimation and (c) the total number of such cases in which the corresponding delay has been 24 hours or
| PERSONS ARRESTED* BY POLICE FORCES BY TIME BEFORE ACTION TAKEN TO NOTIFY PERSON NOMINATED UNDER SECTION 62 OF THE CRIMINAL LAW ACT 1977 | ||||||||
| ENGLAND AND WALES—19TH JUNE-30TH NOVEMBER 1978—NUMBER OF PERSONS | ||||||||
| Request under section 62 not dealt with within | ||||||||
| Police force area | Total arrested | 4 hours | 24 hours (included also in previous column) | |||||
| Avon and Somerset | … | … | … | 13,001 | 6 | 1 | ||
| Bedfordshire | … | … | … | … | 5,992 | 18 | — | |
| Cambridgeshire | … | … | … | … | 6,990 | — | — | |
| Cheshire | … | … | … | … | … | 7,762 | 2 | — |
| Cleveland | … | … | … | … | … | 9,022 | 10 | — |
| Cumbria | … | … | … | … | … | 4,785 | 10 | — |
| Derbyshire | … | … | … | … | … | 6,202 | 3 | — |
| Devon and Cornwall | … | … | … | 8,490 | 4 | — | ||
| Dorset | … | … | … | … | … | 5,238 | 5 | — |
| Durham | … | … | … | … | … | 6,404 | 4 | — |
| Essex | … | … | … | … | … | 12,265 | 21 | 1 |
| Gloucestershire | … | … | … | … | 3,895 | 1 | 1 | |
| Greater Manchester | … | … | … | 36,798 | 8 | — | ||
| Hampshire | … | … | … | … | … | 17,816 | 33 | 2 |
| Hertfordshire | … | … | … | … | 6,107 | 14 | — | |
| Humberside | … | … | … | … | 12,454 | 23 | — | |
| Kent | … | … | … | … | … | 14,584 | 21 | 3 |
| Lancashire | … | … | … | … | … | 14,915 | 6 | — |
| Leicestershire | … | … | … | … | 9,048 | 12 | 1 | |
| Lincolnshire | … | … | … | … | 5,085 | 11 | — | |
| London, City of | … | … | … | … | 1,563 | 7 | 2 | |
| Merseyside | … | … | … | … | … | 26,423 | 9 | — |
| Metropolitan police District | … | … | 142,724 | 410 | 59† | |||
| Norfolk | … | … | … | … | … | 3,382 | 4 | — |
| Northamptonshire | … | … | … | 6,197 | 5 | — | ||
| Northumbria | … | … | … | … | 24,795 | 19 | — | |
| North Yorkshire | … | … | … | … | 5,100 | 6 | — | |
| Nottinghamshire | … | … | … | … | 12,457 | 15 | 9‡ | |
| South Yorkshire | … | … | … | … | 15,939 | 5 | — | |
| Staffordshire | … | … | … | … | 10,487 | 11 | — | |
| Suffolk | … | … | … | … | … | 4,629 | 13 | — |
| Surrey | … | … | … | … | … | 7,196 | 4 | — |
| Sussex | … | … | … | … | … | 14,618 | 30 | 5 |
| Thames Valley | … | … | … | … | 15,711 | 24 | 3 | |
| Warwickshire | … | … | … | … | 2,567 | 9 | — | |
| West Mercia | … | … | … | … | 9,048 | 15 | — | |
| West Midlands | … | … | … | … | 32,436 | 5 | 1 | |
| West Yorkshire | … | … | … | … | 23,183 | 30 | — | |
| Wiltshire | … | … | … | … | 2,969 | 11 | 3§ | |
| Dyfed Powys | … | … | … | … | 2,279 | 7 | — | |
| Gwent | … | … | … | … | … | 6,284 | 11 | — |
| North Wales | … | … | … | … | 3,855 | 4 | — | |
| South Wales | … | … | … | … | 12,912 | 4 | — | |
| Total | … | … | … | … | 593,607 | 870 | 91 | |
| * Provisional figures and subject to slight amendment. | ||||||||
| † 19 of these persons were involved in 8 cases each of which involved 2 or 3 persons. | ||||||||
| ‡ 7 of these persons were involved in a single case. | ||||||||
| § These 3 persons were involved in a single case. | ||||||||