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Table 2: Detection rates( 1) for other sexual offences (excluding rape) by police force area
Police force area	1997	1998-99( 2)	1999-2000( 3)	2000-01	2001-02	2002-03( 4)	2003-04	2004-05( 5)	2005-06
Avon and Somerset	76	68	62	48	33	29	29	22	29
Bedfordshire	70	54	55	57	45	44	29	41	31
Cambridgeshire	71	67	74	60	51	38	32	30	31
Cheshire	94	90	84	87	79	58	49	40	35
Cleveland	77	78	85	81	85	69	60	51	47
Cumbria	90	88	87	86	72	57	51	46	51
Derbyshire	80	79	66	55	66	48	49	37	33
Devon and Cornwall	84	87	90	82	62	48	39	33	33
Dorset	82	75	67	58	53	47	33	31	35
Durham	91	80	93	81	n/a	59	77	69	37
Dyfed-Powys	94	96	95	93	95	91	52	46	48
Essex	68	64	67	57	55	43	40	36	31
Gloucestershire	80	69	72	67	64	42	38	35	34
Greater Manchester	70	72	65	62	58	54	46	30	35
Gwent	95	87	94	91	90	83	81	57	48
Hampshire	79	102	76	66	62	59	44	36	31
Hertfordshire	69	80	72	65	75	54	55	41	43
Humberside	66	60	43	46	38	41	33	30	37
Kent	85	80	78	59	59	49	43	29	32
Lancashire	81	76	75	62	52	61	48	41	44
Leicestershire	78	63	58	46	n/a	35	33	28	33
Lincolnshire	124	84	78	73	68	33	40	41	38
London, City of	74	59	40	38	67	45	35	44	45
Merseyside	81	72	66	69	56	53	47	41	38
Metropolitan Police	62	46	34	33	34	34	35	25	34
Norfolk	91	82	72	51	50	37	46	38	68
Northamptonshire	92	81	84	81	70	53	62	52	39
Northumbria	71	68	58	58	52	51	49	35	47
North Wales	90	93	90	67	58	38	45	42	46
North Yorkshire	77	87	71	74	69	59	54	50	51
Nottinghamshire	76	62	57	47	46	48	46	47	48
South Wales	87	86	84	82	78	59	52	36	34
South Yorkshire	82	84	78	77	67	51	53	38	35
Staffordshire	80	68	37	40	39	55	52	41	36
Suffolk	85	75	72	60	54	57	40	43	45
Surrey	69	110	59	45	45	43	44	34	36
Sussex	76	60	57	48	50	43	41	31	37
Thames Valley	76	61	53	49	44	34	36	29	34
Warwickshire	93	78	62	51	60	48	34	42	42
West Mercia	82	79	69	61	51	49	50	41	48
West Midlands	68	63	60	54	55	44	38	30	34
West Yorkshire	84	74	80	73	67	55	39	32	28
Wiltshire	84	87	68	40	52	42	42	37	41
(1) Offences detected in current year may have been initially recorded in an earlier year, so some percentages may exceed 100. (2) Expanded offence coverage and revised counting rules came into effect on 1 April 1998. (3) Revised detections guidance was implemented on 1 April 1999. (4) The data in this table take account of the introduction of the National Crime Recording Standard in April 2002. These figures are not directly comparable with those for earlier years. (5) The Sexual Offences Act 2003, introduced in May 2004, altered the definition and coverage of sexual offences. n/a—Not available.

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