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Police: Crimes of Violence

Volume 460: debated on Wednesday 9 May 2007

To ask the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland how many attacks on police officers there were in each district command unit of Northern Ireland in each of the last five years. (135353)

Information prior to 2005-06 is not available in the requested format. However the following table outlines the total number of attacks on police officers in each of the last two years.

District command unit

2005-06

2006-07

Antrim

39

7

Ards

5

3

Armagh

7

7

Banbridge

1

4

East Belfast

178

31

North Belfast

454

124

South Belfast

123

39

West Belfast

696

439

Ballymena

29

11

Ballymoney

4

2

Carrickfergus

18

9

Coleraine

6

7

Cookstown

6

8

Craigavon

131

106

Castlereagh

17

22

Dungannon and S. Tyrone

14

3

Down

12

15

Fermanagh

8

2

Foyle

251

173

Larne

3

1

Limavady

7

9

Lisburn

130

138

Magherafelt

2

6

Moyle

5

2

Newtownabbey

79

50

North Down

12

11

Newry and Mourne

62

92

Omagh

12

8

Strabane

39

26

Total

2,350

1,355