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Police: Complaints
Dr. Kumar: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department how many complaints of excessive use of force by police there were in (a) England, (b) the North East, (c) the Tees Valley and (d) Middlesbrough South and East Cleveland in each of the last five years. [296399]
Mr. Hanson: The Home Office does not collect this information.
The Police Reform Act, 2002 places a duty on all police forces to record all complaints made by members of the public about the conduct of those serving with the police. The Independent Police Complaints Commission (IPCC) is responsible for the collation and publication of complaints statistics for England and Wales. It has done so since it was established in 2004.
Excessive force is not a category used in the collation and publication of the IPCC’s statistics. It is a matter for each force to retain such information.
Police: Pay
Mr. Amess: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department what allowances are paid to chief constables; what criteria apply to the payment of such allowances; how much was paid to the Chief Constable of Essex Police in allowances in each of the last three years; and if he will make a statement. [296614]
Mr. Hanson: The nationally determined chief police officer pay and allowances are agreed by the Police Negotiating Board and, for England and Wales, given effect through the Police Regulations 2003 and Home Secretary Determinations made under those regulations. I have placed in the Library of the House a consolidated set of the Determinations. It is for police authorities to determine individual chief officer allowances in accordance with legislative requirements and their duty to ensure the maintenance of an efficient and effective force for their area. Information on chief officer allowances determined by police authorities is not held centrally.
Police: Tamworth
Mr. Jenkins: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department what progress has been made towards delivering the policing pledge in Tamworth. [296115]
Mr. Hanson: It is for individual police forces and authorities to ensure delivery of the Policing Pledge in their area. The Government will hold forces to account for progress through the single top-down target we have set them to improve public confidence that crime and antisocial behaviour are being tackled locally, and in the light of inspection work by Her Majesty’s Inspectorate of Constabulary (HMIC).
In October, HMIC published a report on the progress of all forces in delivering the pledge. Although information is not available specifically for Tamworth, the report graded Staffordshire police as ‘fair’. HMIC identified that the force regularly keep the public informed about action taken to address local concerns and that they were dealing well with non-emergency calls. It also identified that more could be done to ensure a quicker response to public dissatisfaction and calls to neighbourhood teams. We now look to all forces and police authorities to respond quickly to HMIC’s findings and deliver the pledge consistently for their community.
Police: Termination of Employment
Greg Mulholland: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department how many (a) police officers and (b) police community support officers (i) were dismissed and (ii) resigned in each local authority area in each year since 2002. [296353]
Mr. Hanson: Police personnel data are not collected centrally at local authority area level. The available force-level data have been collected since 2002-03 and are given in the following tables.
| Police Officer and PCSO dismissals and resignations by police force (full-time equivalent)( 1) , 2002-03 to 2008-09( 2) | ||||||||
| Full-time equivalent | ||||||||
| 2002-03( 3) | 2003-04 | |||||||
| Police Officer | PCSO | Police Officer | PCSO | |||||
| Force name | Voluntary resignations | Dismissals | Voluntary resignations | Dismissals | Voluntary resignations | Dismissals | Voluntary resignations | Dismissals |
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