Ministry of Justice written question – answered at on 17 March 2015.
To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many requests for Registered Intermediaries were made in each police area in each year from 2010 to 2014.
Recent work by the Ministry of Justice has highlighted the potential increase in future demand of Registered Intermediaries which is why we are currently in the process of undertaking a recruitment exercise aimed at doubling the number of Registered Intermediaries available to help vulnerable victims. .
The following table gives a breakdown of requests for Registered Intermediaries for the years 2010 to 2014 by police force area.
Police force area | 2010 | 2011 | 2012 | 2013 | 2014 | Total |
Avon & Somerset | 25 | 33 | 41 | 66 | 99 | 264 |
Bedfordshire | 14 | 18 | 47 | 26 | 18 | 123 |
Cambridgeshire | 51 | 42 | 24 | 46 | 63 | 226 |
Cheshire | 14 | 14 | 14 | 10 | 15 | 67 |
Cleveland | 3 | 2 | 5 | 8 | 21 | 39 |
Cumbria | 17 | 11 | 14 | 14 | 13 | 69 |
Derbyshire | 53 | 36 | 31 | 33 | 61 | 214 |
Devon & Cornwall | 17 | 19 | 23 | 19 | 40 | 118 |
Dorset | 4 | 3 | 5 | 5 | 30 | 47 |
Durham | 23 | 16 | 8 | 14 | 96 | 157 |
Dyfed-Powys | 6 | 3 | 11 | 6 | 39 | 65 |
Essex | 23 | 48 | 52 | 66 | 166 | 355 |
Gloucestershire | 3 | 5 | 0 | 6 | 12 | 26 |
32 | 54 | 37 | 56 | 118 | 297 | |
Gwent | 10 | 17 | 4 | 16 | 28 | 75 |
Hampshire | 52 | 28 | 145 | 167 | 230 | 622 |
Hertfordshire | 11 | 12 | 11 | 5 | 33 | 72 |
Humberside | 41 | 21 | 37 | 42 | 66 | 207 |
Isle of Man | 4 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 5 |
Kent | 16 | 28 | 24 | 50 | 95 | 213 |
Lancashire | 14 | 17 | 20 | 15 | 39 | 105 |
Leicestershire | 25 | 26 | 17 | 19 | 30 | 117 |
Lincolnshire | 11 | 18 | 18 | 19 | 38 | 104 |
London | 285 | 267 | 204 | 281 | 471 | 1,508 |
Merseyside | 32 | 41 | 62 | 52 | 104 | 291 |
Norfolk | 20 | 11 | 12 | 13 | 32 | 88 |
2 | 7 | 12 | 13 | 58 | 92 | |
4 | 4 | 10 | 10 | 32 | 60 | |
Northamptonshire | 3 | 5 | 18 | 11 | 30 | 67 |
Northumbria | 9 | 5 | 15 | 45 | 116 | 190 |
Nottinghamshire | 10 | 9 | 9 | 16 | 55 | 99 |
Other | 0 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 3 | 6 |
10 | 4 | 11 | 24 | 89 | 138 | |
7 | 7 | 27 | 12 | 36 | 89 | |
Staffordshire | 12 | 29 | 31 | 42 | 60 | 174 |
Suffolk | 34 | 17 | 17 | 14 | 30 | 112 |
Surrey | 23 | 28 | 33 | 45 | 46 | 175 |
Sussex | 25 | 50 | 57 | 67 | 89 | 288 |
115 | 106 | 128 | 160 | 224 | 733 | |
Warwickshire | 2 | 5 | 8 | 3 | 15 | 33 |
22 | 13 | 10 | 39 | 73 | 157 | |
55 | 66 | 77 | 110 | 189 | 497 | |
35 | 64 | 83 | 103 | 181 | 466 | |
Wiltshire | 32 | 19 | 18 | 28 | 54 | 151 |
Total | 1,206 | 1,230 | 1,432 | 1,796 | 3,337 | 9,001 |
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