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Maria Eagle: The number of defendants cautioned from 1996 to 2005 in England and Wales, broken down
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by police force area is shown in the following table. Data for 2006 will be available in the autumn of 2007.

In addition, the Penalty Notice for Disorder (PND) Scheme was introduced to all police forces in England and Wales in 2004. Under the scheme, police can issue ‘on-the-spot fines’ of £50 or £80 for a specified range of minor disorder offences. The number of PNDs issued in 2004 and 2005 by police force area, together with provisional data for 2006, is shown in the following tables.

Formal warnings were also introduced in 2004; the number of offenders issued with a formal warning for 2004-05, 2005-06 and 2006-07 is shown in the following tables. These data are presented by financial year, rather than calendar year.

Number of defendants cautioned, in England and Wales, broken down by police force area, 1996 to 2005( 1,2)
Police force area 1996 1997 1998 1999 2000 2001 2002 2003 2004 2005

Avon and Somerset

3,910

3,773

4,534

5,197

4,764

4,351

4,286

4,615

5,075

6,107

Bedfordshire

2,664

2,940

2,789

2,833

2,265

3,112

2,628

2,827

3,080

3,455

Cambridgeshire

2,523

2,477

2,621

2,569

2,308

2,207

2,114

2,063

2,618

3,985

Cheshire

4,602

4,048

4,587

3,592

3,111

2,780

2,085

3,051

3,268

4,572

City of London

1,067

1,146

751

709

559

902

1,083

974

605

807

Cleveland

7,757

7,242

5,583

4,321

3,267

3,087

3,020

3,256

3,490

3,617

Cumbria

2,688

2,902

3,015

3,032

2,337

2,505

2,392

2,615

2,753

2,652

Derbyshire

3,303

3,832

3,532

3,301

2,917

3,161

2,732

2,794

3,371

4,644

Devon and Cornwall

8,822

8,042

7,047

7,226

7,283

7,177

7,224

7,870

6,951

7,175

Dorset

1,052

964

1,741

1,787

1,926

1,787

1,709

1,789

3,114

3,115

Durham

1,668

2,014

2,089

2,393

2,349

2,424

2,681

2,628

2,160

3,137

Essex

7,829

6,717

6,064

5,296

4,690

4,640

4,330

4,277

4,799

7,530

Gloucestershire

2,458

2,331

2,897

2,754

2,848

2,828

2,815

2,590

2,696

3,822

Greater Manchester

17,874

16,297

19,716

16,142

12,389

11,181

9,774

11,063

12,778

13,184

Hampshire

8,161

7,592

6,424

7,478

7,014

7,436

6,765

7,587

8,747

9,180

Hertfordshire

2,858

3,057

2,867

2,779

3,182

3,237

3,096

3,378

3,826

4,006

Humberside

4,535

3,968

4,509

3,756

3,533

3,250

2,632

2,874

4,118

5,386

Kent

7,013

7,129

8,570

8,533

7,655

7,339

6,479

8,252

10,013

10,166

Lancashire

8,778

9,333

8,909

7,355

6,777

7,189

6,515

8,205

10,229

10,345

Leicestershire

3,644

3,155

3,409

3,202

2,512

2,149

804

2,564

3,898

5,029

Lincolnshire

3,604

2,566

2,425

1,957

1,440

1,799

2,101

2,063

2,177

3,672

Merseyside

12,807

13,763

14,205

12,159

8,216

6,142

6,331

6,165

6,388

3,785

Metropolitan Police

54,263

53,632

57,969

46,239

36,758

31,337

32,088

31,324

31,833

35,152

Norfolk

5,053

4,460

3,345

2,809

2,773

2,302

2,345

2,314

2,774

3,013

North Yorkshire

2,444

1,852

2,238

2,531

2,461

2,590

2,646

2,722

2,740

2,405

Northamptonshire

3,010

2,352

3,176

3,021

3,431

3,679

3,560

2,716

2,591

3,237

Northumbria

17,795

17,586

14,620

14,505

14,165

14,065

15,694

16,779

16,246

16,628

Nottinghamshire

6,358

5,966

5,808

5,323

5,142

5,118

3,862

4,814

4,868

7,640

South Yorkshire

5,163

4,965

5,306

6,217

3,950

4,304

4,102

4,839

4,891

9,506

Staffordshire

6,014

5,905

4,958

4,105

5,628

5,455

6,124

5,585

4,616

6,496

Suffolk

3,115

3,188

3,345

2,695

3,201

3,459

3,336

3,636

3,484

3,670

Surrey

3,297

2,861

3,514

3,914

3,213

4,097

3,675

4,793

5,435

5,654

Sussex

7,157

6,640

5,762

6,393

6,670

7,666

8,151

8,162

8,709

9,146

Thames Valley

4,377

3,705

3,209

4,626

6,790

5,157

6,149

6,534

8,243

13,337

Warwickshire

2,289

2,160

2,143

2,061

1,785

2,161

2,024

2,277

1,936

2,920

West Mercia

3,973

5,866

5,836

5,297

5,380

6,385

6,357

6,251

6,658

7,747

West Midlands

14,830

15,836

17,093

17,138

15,575

14,517

15,078

15,143

13,751

17,706

West Yorkshire

8,349

8,875

9,676

9,923

9,633

9,071

10,073

11,277

14,959

17,904

Wiltshire

1,932

2,575

2,497

2,678

2,853

2,115

1,695

2,347

1,985

2,046

Dyfed-Powys

2,240

3,109

3,452

3,313

3,185

3,495

3,761

4,491

3,170

3,973

Gwent

4,963

5,329

5,780

5,502

4,529

4,258

3,803

3,666

1,456

2,553

North Wales

3,226

3,074

3,544

3,619

3,124

3,120

3,559

3,299

3,237

2,706

South Wales

6,733

6,869

6,339

5,852

5,399

4,826

3,680

5,337

6,032

6,135

Total

286,198

282,093

287,894

266,132

238,987

229,860

225,358

241,806

255,768

298,945

(1) 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 large administrative data systems generated by the police forces. As a consequence, care should be taken to ensure data collection processes and their inevitable limitations are taken into account when those data are used.
(2) These data are on the principal offence basis.


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