Police Officers

Mr. Tebbit
asked the Secretary of State for the Home Department if he will list, for every year from 1945 to the latest quarter of 1978 for which information is available (a) the number of police officers in England and Wales reporting injury as a result of being assaulted while on duty and (b) the number of police officers who, as a result of such injury, have been admitted to hospitals.

Dr. Summerskill
This information is not held centrally and could not be obtained without disproportionate cost.

Mr. Tebbit
asked the Secretary of State for the Home Department if he will list,  for all quarters of 1978 for which information is available (a) the number of resignations before retirement from police forces in England and Wales, and from the Metropolitan Police, and (b) the num- -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
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|All forces in England and Wales|Metropolitan Police|All forces in England and Wales|Metropolitan Police|
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|31st March 1978                |…                  |…                              |
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|30th June 1978                 |…                  |…                              |
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|30th September 1978            |…                  |…                              |
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|Total                          |…                  |…                              |
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Mr. Tebbit
asked the Secretary of State for the Home Department if he will list, for every quarter of 1978 for which information is available (a) the number of police officers in the Metropolitan Police reporting injury as a result of being assaulted while on duty, and (b) the number of police officers who, as a result of such injury, have been admitted to hospital.

Dr. Summerskill
The information requested is as follows:-------------------
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|January—March    |
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|April—June       |
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|July—September   |
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|October—December |
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|Total            |
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Mr. Pattie
asked the Secretary of State for the Home Department how many assaults, and how many serious assaults, on prison officers were recorded in every year from 1968 to 1978 inclusive.

Dr. Sumerskill
The information requested could be obtained only at disproportionate cost. However, information on the number of prisoners dealt with within the prison system for offences of gross personal violence to an officer is published annually in the publication now entitled "Prison Statistics: England and Wales "—formerly "Report on the Work of the Prison Department: Statistical Tables "and previously in "Report of the Work of Prison Department "—and is to be found in Tables 9.2 to 9.5 of the volume for 1977 (Cmnd. 7286). Information for 1978 is not yet available.  ber of recruits to police forces in England and Wales, and to the Metropolitan Police.

Dr. Summerskill
The figures are: