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Mr. Allan
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department how many Livescan terminals used to access the National Automated Fingerprint Identification System are deployed, broken down by police authority. [121118]
Ms Blears
A total of 176 Livescan units are deployed among police forces in England and Wales. Broken down by police authority, they are as follows:
| Police authority | Number of Livescan units |
| Avon and Somerset | 2 |
| Bedfordshire | 3 |
| British Transport Police | 2 |
| Cheshire | 1 |
| Cumbria | 4 |
| Devon and Cornwall | 6 |
| Dorset | 3 |
| Essex | 11 |
| Gloucestershire | 3 |
| Gwent | 5 |
| Hampshire | 8 |
| Lancashire | 5 |
| Lincolnshire | 1 |
| Leicestershire | 1 |
| Manchester | 22 |
| Merseyside | 7 |
| Metropolitan police | 53 |
| Northumbria | 7 |
| North Wales | 3 |
| Nottingham | 11 |
| South Yorkshire | 11 |
| South Wales | 4 |
| Surrey | 5 |
| Sussex | 6 |
Police authority
| Number of Livescan units
|
| Thames Valley | 3 |
| West Mercia Worcester | 1 |
| West Midlands | 11 |
| Wiltshire | 4 |
| West Yorkshire | 13 |
| Livescan units in the field | 176 |
1These units are on trial. | |