asked the Secretary of State for the Home Department if he will list the number of entries in each of the indexes of the police national computer and the number of accesses to those indexes over the last convenient period of time.
The number of entries in each of the police national computer indexes at 18 May 1985 and the number of accesses by terminals to those indexes in the week ending 18 May 1985 were as follows:
| Index | Number of entries | Number of accesses |
| Stolen and suspect vehicles | 349,620 | ✶380,373 |
| Chassis, engine and plant numbers | 542,713 | 19,066 |
| Vehicle owners | 35,610,660 | ✶380,373 |
| Criminal names | 4,974,479 | †||172,648 |
| Fingerprint | 3,512,434 | †20,549 |
| Convictions | 467,377 | ‡0 |
| Wanted and missing persons | 109,659 | ||170,234 |
| Disqualified drivers | 298,436 | ||l29,015 |
| Crime pattern analysis | ¶11,500 | ¶1,000 |
| Major investigations | 58,148 | 17,480 |
| ✶ No separate figures are kept. Most on-line transactions involve access to both files. | ||
| Category | 1 June 1985 | Maximum in previous 12 months | Minimum in previous 12 months |
| Lost or Stolen | 256,943 | 256,943 | 220,277 |
| Obtained by Deception | 553 | 557 | 508 |
| Found or Apprarently Abandoned | 23,095 | 24,651 | 19,693 |
| Removed into Police Custody | 10,322 | 10,596 | 9,542 |
| Removed by the Police from One Street to Another Street | 294 | 401 | 100 |
| Repossessed by Finance Company | 93 | 125 | 76 |
| Suspected of being Involved in Particular Incident for example Crime | 3,140 | 3,150 | 2,285 |
| Owned or Used by Police | 6,296 | 6,815 | 6,296 |
| Of Interest to the Police for example Owned by Known Criminals or Missing Persons | 35,094 | 35,800 | 33,724 |
| Seen or Checked by the Police in Noteworthy Circumstances (for example at Night in | |||
| an Area where a Series of Crimes is under Investigation) | 11,647 | 12,285 | 7,506 |
| Details Not to be Passed Over Open Radio (for example, Police Vehicles Used in | |||
| Observation Duties) | 3,855 | 3,937 | 3,799 |
asked the Secretary of State for the Home Department if he will list the number of entries in each of the sub-categories of the wanted and missing person's index of the police national computer and the maximum and minimum number of entries in each of those sub-categories over the last year.
| Category | May 1985 | Maximum in previous12 months | Minimum in previous12 months |
| Wanted Persons | 29,188 | 29,218 | 28,872 |
| Failed to Appear in Court | 19,327 | 20,505 | 19,327 |
| Suspected of Offence | 3,676 | 3,707 | 3,560 |
| Impending Proceedings | 137 | 137 | 30 |
| Deserter from Armed Forces | 10,339 | 10,411 | 10,339 |
| Location desired for example for service of summons | 39,314 | 40,829 | 35,666 |
| Missing | 2,089 | 2,152 | 1,816 |
| Found | 17 | 42 | 12 |
| Absentee from Local Authority Care | 639 | 807 | 571 |
| Absonded from Hospital | 55 | 55 | 39 |
| Absconded from Youth Custody | 90 | 90 | 79 |
| Absconded from Prison | 365 | 376 | 339 |
| Absconded from Remand | 35 | 36 | 27 |
| Absconded from School | 117 | 130 | 110 |
| Absconded from Detention | 2 | 7 | 1 |
| Recalled to Youth Custody | 2 | 12 | 2 |
| Recalled to Prison | 226 | 238 | 186 |
| Recalled to Detention | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Notify if in Custody | 162 | 441 | 162 |
† Includes some 5,000 criminal names transactions which display fingerprint data.
+ Not yet live.
||Includes multiple index inquiries (140,000)
¶Approximate.
asked the Secretary of State for the Home Department if he will list the number of entries in each of the sub-categories of the stolan and suspect vehicle index of the police national computer and the maximum and minimum number of entries in each of those sub categories over the last year.
The number of entries in each of the sub-categories of the stolen and suspect vehicle index of the police national computer, together with the maximum and minimum number of entries for the previous 12 months, are as follows:
The number of entries in each of the sub-categories of the wanted and missing person's index on the police national computer, together with maximum and minimum figures for the 12-month period ending may 1985, are as follows: