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Number of persons
	2000			2001			2002
Police force area	Age 15	Age 16	Age 17	Age 15	Age 16	Age 17	Age 15	Age 16	Age 17
Avon and Somerset	11	23	50	15	28	42	26	30	58
Bedfordshire	18	20	40	14	17	44	19	24	24
Cambridgeshire	13	20	40	15	30	28	7	23	34
Cheshire	19	30	56	16	36	58	15	27	51
City of London	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—
Cleveland	22	33	62	15	22	41	12	33	47
Cumbria	16	20	35	18	33	38	15	25	23
Derbyshire	21	34	46	19	38	46	14	40	76
Devon and Cornwall	3	15	27	7	11	19	6	9	11
Dorset	10	13	20	5	7	19	14	13	29
Durham	13	32	52	13	28	42	12	23	30
Essex	30	49	59	31	63	104	37	57	95
Gloucestershire	6	16	36	6	12	12	13	13	8
Greater Manchester	127	170	275	128	220	287	113	190	238
Hampshire	59	72	111	34	53	90	47	55	86
Hertfordshire	3	23	48	13	18	34	13	23	44
Humberside	21	31	50	39	40	60	15	35	59
Kent	32	42	64	42	55	88	29	33	77
Lancashire	31	59	100	37	56	87	41	75	97
Leicestershire	30	50	86	47	46	77	25	45	94
Lincolnshire	3	9	29	3	19	33	12	15	17
Merseyside	44	81	113	49	83	124	32	74	,94
Metropolitan Police	173	328	502	177	344	464	184	371	532
Norfolk	7	19	20	13	13	22	5	17	15
North Yorkshire	13	26	53	17	19	44	6	16	25
Northamptonshire	12	8	33	3	24	16	10	18	34
Northumbria	35	63	128	33	81	117	40	68	86
Nottinghamshire	42	55	115	49	50	87	47	72	98
South Yorkshire	43	67	100	36	58	85	33	55	99
Staffordshire	4	44	51	42	34	66	23	38	69
Suffolk	6	13	32	4	12	19	7	9	20
Surrey	1	13	16	10	13	25	4	9	20
Sussex	11	27	61	22	35	66	22	35	48
Thames Valley	34	61	98	25	61	87	26	53	117
Warwickshire	11	8	39	9	13	23	9	16	29
West Mercia	23	32	56	23	42	63	18	37	53
West Midlands	112	217	332	151	231	345	145	255	318
West Yorkshire	69	113	169	53	139	181	82	129	160
Wiltshire	5	15	30	5	5	15	11	15	17
Dyfed-Powys	1	11	17	8	11	7	5	12	7
Gwent	8	18	32	5	13	21	6	12	17
North Wales	7	28	30	23	18	29	13	27	27
South Wales	55	92	147	71	89	96	45	91	127
England and Wales	1,204	2,100	3,460	1,345	2,220	3,251	1,258	2,217	3,210

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