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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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