Children: Protection Tim Loughton To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department how many police officers in each police authority area have received the specialist training necessary to work on child protection. Mr. Alan Campbell There is a range of specialist training available to police forces for those working in child protection. This includes the ‘Specialist Child Abuse Investigators Development Programme’ and local multi-agency training in relation to Working Together guidance. The only data held centrally relate to the online element of the Specialist Child Abuse Investigators Development Programme and these are shown in the table. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- |ACPO region |Police force |Number enrolled| -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- |Eastern |Bedfordshire Police |6 | -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- | |Cambridgeshire Constabulary |39 | -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- | |Essex Police |24 | -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- | |Hertfordshire Constabulary |35 | -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- | |Norfolk Constabulary |9 | -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- | |Suffolk Constabulary |2 | -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- | |Total Eastern |115 | -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- | | | | -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- |East Midlands |Derbyshire Constabulary |8 | -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- | |Leicestershire Constabulary |18 | -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- | |Lincolnshire Police |4 | -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- | |Northamptonshire Police |5 | -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- | |Nottinghamshire Police |4 | -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- | |Total East Midlands |39 | -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- | | | | -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- |London |City of London Police |2 | -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- | |Metropolitan Police |162 | -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- | |Total London |164 | -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- | | | | -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- |North East |Cleveland Police |0 | -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- | |Durham Constabulary |0 | -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- | |Humberside Police |1 | -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- | |Northumbria Police |47 | -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- | |North Yorkshire Police |1 | -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- | |South Yorkshire Police |0 | -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- | |West Yorkshire Police |4 | -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- | |Total North East |53 | -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- | | | | -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- |North West |Cheshire Constabulary |14 | -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- | |Cumbria Constabulary |33 | -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- | |Greater Manchester Police |35 | -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- | |Lancashire Constabulary |17 | -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- | |Merseyside Police |51 | -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- | |Total North West |150 | -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- | | | | -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- |South East |Hampshire Constabulary |3 | -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- | |Kent Police |32 | -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- | |Surrey Police |2 | -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- | |Sussex Police |7 | -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- | |Thames Valley Police |4 | -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- | |Total South East |48 | -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- | | | | -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- |South West |Avon and Somerset Constabulary |64 | -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- | |Devon and Cornwall Constabulary |15 | -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- | |Dorset Police |1 | -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- | |Gloucestershire Constabulary |3 | -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- | |Wiltshire Constabulary |2 | -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- | |Total South West |85 | -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- | | | | -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- |West Midlands |Staffordshire Police |4 | -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- | |Warwickshire Police |4 | -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- | |West Mercia Constabulary |57 | -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- | |West Midlands Police |97 | -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- | |Total West Midlands |162 | -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- | | | | -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- |Wales |Dyfed-Powys Police |2 | -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- | |Gwent Police |6 | -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- | |North Wales Police |0 | -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- | |South Wales Police |8 | -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- | |Total Wales |16 | -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- | | | | -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- |Other |Police Service of Northern Ireland |86 | -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- | |National Policing Improvement Agency|17 | -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- | |Total other |103 | -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- | | | | -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- |Total | |935 | -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- |Note:Information about completion rate is not held centrally.| | | --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------