Assaults On Police

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department if he will list for each police force in England and Wales and for each year since 1992 (a) the total number of sickness days taken due to assault, (b) the average number of days lost per police officer due to assault and (c) the total cost to each police force. [11505]

The information requested is shown in the table. Information on the total cost of the days lost as a result of assaults on police officers is not held centrally.

align="center">Total number of days sick leave due to assault
Forces	1993	1994–95	1995–96	1996–97
Avon and Somerset	906	1,106	¹—	2,090
Bedfordshire	341	247	334	750
Cambridgeshire	400	270	219	377
Cheshire	1,119	221	799	653
City of London	9	145	46	¹—
Cleveland	1,069	513	392	417
Cumbria	457	271	512	260
Derbyshire	1,502	612	814	756
Devon and Cornwall	712	445	574	920
Dorset	490	492	37	140
Durham	448	602	817	438
Dyfed-Powys	557	251	306	495
Essex	582	469	749	275
Gloucestershire	482	319	149	323
Greater Manchester	1,427	2,413	2,492	1,647
Gwent	342	90	132	669
Hampshire	1,535	537	1,026	¹—
Hertfordshire	214	218	101	268
Humberside	727	627	458	276
Kent	400	593	302	207
Lancashire	1,160	1,016	1,779	950
Leicestershire	469	992	598	550
Lincolnshire	709	697	719	601
Merseyside	2,825	3,325	3,160	2,229
Metropolitan police	11,323	11,686	5,000	9,723
Norfolk	256	289	¹—	111
North Wales	61	71	28	450
North Yorkshire	119	76	86	33
Northamptonshire	370	339	69	486
Nortrmmbria	4,048	2,596	2,471	2,453
Nottinghamshire	1,161	700	776	876
South Wales	3,414	2,502	2,455	1,316
South Yorkshire	697	1,040	482	607
Staffordshire	345.50	346	401	483
Suffolk	122	66	75	778
Surrey	240	100	282	216
Sussex	738	798	688	1,050
Thames Valley	668	895	1,073	896
Warwickshire	375	382	379	312
WestMercia	504	398	427	773
West Midlands	2,054.19	2,806	2,165	3,072
West Yorkshire	2,017	1,318	¹—	2,476
Wiltshire	249	179	259	320
Provincial total	36,320.69	31,302	²28,631	²31,999
England and Wales total	47,643.69	42,988	²33,631	²41,506
¹Information not available.
² Incomplete totals.

align="center">Average number of days sick leave per assault
Forces	1993	1994–95	1995–96	1996–97
Avon and Somerset	10.53	21.69	¹—	14.72
Bedfordshire	13.12	9.15	9.28	25.86
Cambridgeshire	17.39	15.00	14.60	25.13
Cheshire	19.29	9.61	19.49	13.06
City of London	3.00	24.17	9.20	¹—

align="center">Average number of days sick leave per assault
Forces	1993	1994–95	1995–96	1996–97
Cleveland	19.80	17.69	9.80	13.45
Cumbria	19.04	10.42	16.52	10.00
Derbyshire	32.65	14.23	18.93	12.60
Devon and Cornwall	10.79	9.08	13.67	20.00
Dorset	18.85	28.94	4.63	15.56
Durham	13.18	12.29	18.16	18.25
Dyfed-Powys	27.85	10.04	9.00	11.79
Essex	10.39	12.34	14.69	9.82
Gloucestershire	17.21	9.38	13.55	10.09
Greater Manchester	8.49	16.87	22.86	11.60
Gwent	21.38	7.50	11.00	22.30
Hampshire	17.64	13.77	17.10	¹—
Hertfordshire	9.30	10.38	25.25	14.11
Humberside	12.32	22.39	12.38	8.36
Kent	9.30	11.40	7.55	6.27
Lancashire	12.08	10.92	25.06	12.18
Leicestershire	8.53	15.90	11.73	9.33
Lincolnshire	12.66	18.34	23.19	17.68
Merseyside	20.62	23.58	24.12	22.07
Metropolitan police	12.36	12.21	13.70	23.10
Norfolk	7.11	14.45	¹—	8.56
North Wales	4.36	5.92	3.50	13.64
North Yorkshire	7.93	10.86	7.82	8.25
Northamptonshire	18.50	26.08	8.63	17.36
Northumbria	21.31	21.11	23.09	20.97
Nottinghamshire	20.73	12.96	14.92	17.88
South Wales	21.88	19.86	25.31	13.29
South Yorkshire	20.50	26.67	11.21	7.78
Staffordshire	9.34	7.36	10.84	14.21
Suffolk	6.78	9.43	5.77	12.75
Surrey	10.43	11.11	16.59	10.29
Sussex	17.57	17.73	21.50	26.25
Thames Valley	22.27	24.86	39.74	22.97
Warwickshire	14.42	13.17	10.83	12.48
West Mercia	14.82	9.71	13.34	12.67
West Midlands	13.97	9.95	13.53	21.04
West Yorkshire	13.36	13.05	¹—	4.01
Wiltshire	10.83	8.95	17.27	15.24
Provincial total	15.51	15.11	²17.44	²12.47
England and Wales total	14.62	14.20	²16.76	²13.98
¹Information not available
²Incomplete totals

align="center">Average number of days sick leave due to assault per officer
Forces	1993	1994–95	1995–96	1996–97
Avon and Somerset	0.3	0.4	¹—	0.7
Bedfordshire	0.3	0.2	0.3	0.7
Cambridgeshire	0.3	0.2	0.2	0.3
Cheshire	0.6	0.1	0.4	0.3
City of London	0.0	0.2	0.1	0.0
Cleveland	0.7	0.4	0.3	0.3
Cumbria	0.4	0.2	0.4	0.2
Derbyshire	0.8	0.3	0.5	0.4
Devon and Cornwall	0.2	0.2	0.2	0.3
Dorset	0.4	0.4	0.0	0.1
Durham	0.3	0.4	0.6	0.3
Dyfed-Powys	0.6	0.3	0.3	0.5
Essex	0.2	0.2	0.3	0.1
Gloucestershire	0.4	0.3	0.1	0.3
Greater Manchester	0.2	0.3	0.4	0.2
Gwent	0.3	0.1	0.1	0.5
Hampshire	0.5	0.2	0.3	0.0
Hertfordshire	0.1	0.1	0.1	0.2
Humberside	0.4	0.3	0.2	0.1
Kent	0.1	0.2	0.1	0.1
Lancashire	0.4	0.3	0.6	0.3
Leicestershire	0.3	0.5	0.3	0.4
Lincolnshire	0.6	0.6	0.6	0.5
Merseyside	0.6	0.7	0.7	0.5

align="center">Average number of days sick leave due to assault per officer
Forces	1993	1994–95	1995–96	1996–97
Metropolitan police	0.4	0.4	0.2	¹—
Norfolk	0.2	0.2	¹—	0.1
North Wales	0.0	0.1	0.0	0.3
North Yorkshire	0.1	0.1	0.1	0.0
Northamptonshire	0.3	0.3	0.1	0.4
Northumbria	1.1	0.7	0.7	0.7
Nottinghamshire	0.5	0.3	0.3	0.4
South Wales	1.1	0.8	0.8	¹—
South Yorkshire	0.2	0.3	0.2	0.2
Staffordshire	0.2	0.2	0.2	0.2
Suffolk	0.1	0.1	0.1	0.7
Surrey	0.1	0.1	0.2	0.1
Sussex	0.2	0.3	0.2	0.3
Thames Valley	0.2	0.2	0.3	0.2
Warwickshire	0.4	0.4	0.4	0.3
West Mercia	0.2	0.2	0.2	0.4
West Midlands	0.3	0.4	0.3	0.4
West Yorkshire	0.4	0.3	¹—	0.5
Wiltshire	0.2	0.1	0.2	0.3
Provincial total	0.4	0.3	²0.3	²0.3
England and Wales total	0.4	0.3	²0.3	²0.4
¹Information not available
²Incomplete totals

Volume 299: debated on Thursday 31 July 1997