Police: Information and Communications Technology

Paul Holmes
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department what recent estimate he has made of the number of hand held ICT devices used by police officers to receive information from and transmit information to police stations.

Mr. Hanson
[holding answer 1 March 2010]: The total number of hand held ICT devices in use by frontline police officers as at 26 February 2010 is 42,824.