Prisoners held temporarily in police cells (1716A/23)

14 November 2023 | Finance and Procurement, Other

Request

Response

1. How many times in the annual year 2023, up until receipt of this email has your police force used a cell to house a prisoner?

93 times

2. How many prisoners has your police force housed in cells in 2023?

93

3. What was your police force’s 2023 overtime bill for housing prisoners in police cells?

We don’t incur overtime to house prisoners as lockouts from Court or prisons.

For Operation Safeguard, the overtime spend to the end of September (most recently available data) is £323,006.14.

4. How much has your police force been paid by the Ministry of Justice to provide cells for prisoners in 2023?

For Court and prison lockouts, we have invoiced £9,305.64.

For Operation Safeguard, the received sum to the end of September (most recently available data) is £6,527,885.52.

Every effort is made to ensure that the figures presented are accurate and complete. However, it is important to note that these data have been extracted from a number of data sources used by forces for police purposes. The detail collected to respond specifically to your request is subject to the inaccuracies inherent in any large scale recording system. As a consequence, care should be taken to ensure data collection processes and their inevitable limitations are taken into account when interpreting those data.

The figures provided therefore are our best interpretation of relevance of data to your request, but you should be aware that the collation of figures for ad hoc requests may have limitations and this should be taken into account when those data are used.

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