Police: Bureaucracy Mr. Ruffley To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department how many stop and account forms have been issued since their introduction, broken down by police force area. Maria Eagle I have been asked to reply. Data on stops and account are collected by police force area and are published in the ‘Statistics on Race and the Criminal Justice System—2006-07’ report for the first time this month http://www.justice.gov.uk/publications/raceandcis.htm This information is contained in the following table, but can also be found in Table 4.9 of the report. --------------------------------------------------- |Police force area |2005-06 |2006-07 |Total | --------------------------------------------------- |Avon and Somerset |7,501 |8,043 |15,544 | --------------------------------------------------- |Bedfordshire |11,114 |7,745 |18,859 | --------------------------------------------------- |Cambridgeshire |4,506 |17,708 |22,214 | --------------------------------------------------- |Cheshire |48,113 |75,167 |123,280 | --------------------------------------------------- |Cleveland |61,618 |70,279 |131,897 | --------------------------------------------------- |Cumbria |7,091 |18,698 |25,789 | --------------------------------------------------- |Derbyshire |14,960 |20,159 |35,119 | --------------------------------------------------- |Devon and Cornwall |2,924 |3,266 |6,190 | --------------------------------------------------- |Dorset |1,694 |2,144 |3,838 | --------------------------------------------------- |Durham |7,675 |16,017 |23,692 | --------------------------------------------------- |Essex |45,251 |62,946 |108,197 | --------------------------------------------------- |Gloucestershire |5,158 |12,789 |17,947 | --------------------------------------------------- |Greater Manchester |54,188 |77,549 |131,737 | --------------------------------------------------- |Hampshire |43,006 |59,328 |102,334 | --------------------------------------------------- |Hertfordshire |28,984 |43,326 |72,310 | --------------------------------------------------- |Humberside |11,782 |30,575 |42,357 | --------------------------------------------------- |Kent |12,865 |14,200 |27,065 | --------------------------------------------------- |Lancashire |47,673 |60,742 |108,415 | --------------------------------------------------- |Leicestershire |11,568 |17,453 |29,021 | --------------------------------------------------- |Lincolnshire |16,525 |30,268, |46,793 | --------------------------------------------------- |London, City of |61,853 |28,583 |90,436 | --------------------------------------------------- |Merseyside |96,878 |164,715 |261,593 | --------------------------------------------------- |Metropolitan Police|176,278 |244,571 |420,849 | --------------------------------------------------- |Norfolk |5,749 |9,504 |15,253 | --------------------------------------------------- |Northamptonshire |12,651 |24,329 |36,980 | --------------------------------------------------- |Northumbria |56,446 |88,361 |144,807 | --------------------------------------------------- |North Yorkshire |10,261 |23,688 |33,949 | --------------------------------------------------- |Nottinghamshire |25,499 |24,413 |49,912 | --------------------------------------------------- |South Yorkshire |19,018 |36,174 |55,192 | --------------------------------------------------- |Staffordshire |15,985 |21,154 |37,139 | --------------------------------------------------- |Suffolk |5,522 |6,647 = |12,169 | --------------------------------------------------- |Surrey |10,819 |19,529 |30,348 | --------------------------------------------------- |Sussex |78,103 |90,685 |168,788 | --------------------------------------------------- |Thames Valley |29,371 |56,782 |86,153 | --------------------------------------------------- |Warwickshire |6,806 |3,857 |10,663 | --------------------------------------------------- |West Mercia |17,492 |20,514 |38,006 | --------------------------------------------------- |West Midlands |147,861 |142,998 |290,859 | --------------------------------------------------- |West Yorks |88,794 |104,167 |192,961 | --------------------------------------------------- |Wiltshire |6,410 |6,763 |13,173 | --------------------------------------------------- | | | | | --------------------------------------------------- |Dyfed Powys |28,955 |27,148 |56,103 | --------------------------------------------------- |Gwent |8,810 |12,434. |21,244 | --------------------------------------------------- |North Wales |8,025 |14,277 |22,302 | --------------------------------------------------- |South Wales |38,963 |48,875 |87,838 | --------------------------------------------------- | | | | | --------------------------------------------------- |England and Wales |1,400,745|1,868,570|3,269,315| ---------------------------------------------------