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Criminal Investigation: Costs

Volume 492: debated on Thursday 14 May 2009

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Mr. Ruffley

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department what the average total (a) direct staff cost, (b) operational support cost, (c) business support cost and (d) cost excluding sustaining overheads under activity-based costing analysis was for a police investigation relating to (i) a violence against the person offence, (ii) a sexual offence, (iii) robbery, (iv) deception or fraud, (v) a drugs offence, (vi) a criminal damage offence and (vii) other crimes in 2007-08. (273526)

Mr. Alan Campbell

The data requested are given in the table.

Average cost per incident, by incident type

£

Direct staff costs

Operational support costs

Business support costs

Total cost excluding overheads

Violence against the person—S20 and more serious

9,376.64

5,140.30

3,730.44

18,247.39

Violence against the person—S47 and less serious

216.43

151.19

93.75

461.37

Sexual offences

2,396.34

1,608.59

1,007.81

5,012.74

Robbery

1,198.15

824.08

518.36

2,540.59

Deception/fraud

508.23

302.35

229.34

1,039.92

Drugs offences

722.77

461.04

319.02

1,502.84

Criminal damage

103.65

74.91

45.12

223.68

Crimes other than those specified above

301.57

233.85

137.49

672.92

Crimes other than those specified in ABC data collection1

3,670.65

2,837.99

1,620.70

8,129.34

Total crime

359.00

250.25

157.32

766.57

1 Crimes specified in ABC data collection are: violence against the person, sexual offences, burglary (dwelling), burglary (commercial and other), robbery, theft of or from a motor vehicle, theft of or from a motor vehicle, deception/fraud, theft (other), drugs offences, criminal damage.