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Royal Ulster Constabulary: Manpower

Volume 461: debated on Wednesday 6 June 2007

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Mr. Dodds

To ask the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland how many prosecutors were employed in the former Royal Ulster Constabulary and Police Service of Northern Ireland central process offices in each of the last seven years. (140621)

Paul Goggins

The Police Service of Northern Ireland has advised us that the figures for the number of prosecutors are shown in the following table:

Number of prosecutors

2000

24

2001

24

2002

21

2003

26

2004

24

2005

126

2006

220

2007

217

1 Including 6 agency lawyers.

2 Including 1 agency lawyer.

Note:

The Public Prosecution Service was established in June 2005; the efficiencies generated as a result help explain the decrease in the number of prosecutors since.