Assaults on Police and Prison Officers: Sentencing
(asked on 1st July 2019) - View Source
Question to the Ministry of Justice:
To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many people received a (a) custodial and (b) non-custodial sentence for assault of a (i) police officer and (ii) prison officer in each year since 2007, and what the average custodial sentence was for those offences.
This question was answered on 4th July 2019
The number of people who received a) custodial and b) non-custodial sentences for assault on a police officer or prison officer in each year since 2007, and the average custodial sentence lengths for these offences can be found in the accompanying table.