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The Home Office carried out research published in July 2007 which found that the reduction in detection rates was likely to be largely due to changes in recording practices resulting from the introduction of the National Crime Recording Standard, counting rules and detections guidance (‘Investigating and detecting recorded offences of rape’, Home Office Online Report 18/07).

New performance management arrangements have been introduced for the police and CPS on the investigation and prosecution of rape. The Home Office and Association of Chief Police Officers are also providing operational support to police forces on the implementation of recommendations from ‘Without Consent’, the rape inspection published in January 2007.

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Offences recorded by the police and detection rates( 1 ) for rape offences by police force area
	1997		1998-99( 2)		1999-2000( 3)		2000-01		2001-02
Police force area	Offences recorded	Detection rate	Offences recorded	Detection rate	Offences recorded	Detection rate	Offences recorded	Detection rate	Offences recorded	Detection rate
Avon and Somerset	219	86	175	74	181	62	199	43	323	27
Bedfordshire	81	70	66	56	96	43	85	34	92	25
Cambridgeshire	73	79	84	62	105	56	106	50	156	46
Cheshire	101	100	108	98	62	87	80	86	74	81
Cleveland	37	89	56	91	51	73	37	59	54	65
Cumbria	33	97	43	93	34	91	37	70	47	74
Derbyshire	75	93	108	73	109	52	107	38	120	39
Devon and Cornwall	164	92	178	89	165	96	184	77	181	49
Dorset	68	94	55	78	66	50	80	36	122	39
Durham	71	93	60	95	66	85	46	91	78	n/a
Dyfed-Powys	58	95	43	91	55	89	47	109	49	76
Essex	130	79	187	65	196	64	166	50	202	33
Gloucestershire	36	89	54	69	70	66	90	70	53	57
Greater Manchester	432	85	537	74	548	64	544	58	574	55
Gwent	98	100	91	91	106	92	87	98	106	93
Hampshire	199	79	180	99	249	65	274	58	303	53
Hertfordshire	68	88	51	96	68	78	86	66	87	62
Humberside	156	65	127	58	170	33	142	37	166	33
Kent	152	92	169	85	145	90	187	57	186	56
Lancashire	158	91	154	83	148	79	200	53	194	47
Leicestershire	97	72	152	43	150	37	147	37	159	n/a
Lincolnshire	54	124	65	82	63	87	75	67	111	50
London, City of	0	0	4	0	(6)—	0	(6)—	50	9	22
Merseyside	175	90	190	78	237	69	241	66	283	53
Metropolitan Police	1,741	58	1,993	32	2,270	28	2,189	24	2,492	27
Norfolk	73	68	99	94	89	37	114	35	120	36
Northamptonshire	56	96	60	82	44	95	60	70	97	64
Northumbria	125	85	275	68	249	61	227	50	290	43
North Wales	95	89	73	92	96	85	101	59	128	35
North Yorkshire	38	87	42	105	42	62	49	73	71	59
Nottinghamshire	154	83	163	55	237	46	247	51	251	36
South Wales	123	99	169	93	130	88	125	91	126	90
South Yorkshire	113	96	108	79	126	88	127	75	121	72
Staffordshire	104	86	114	68	184	39	197	38	210	35
Suffolk	82	74	89	73	84	29	100	36	116	30
Surrey	59	56	69	48	83	45	126	28	118	42
Sussex	124	80	197	55	215	47	261	34	235	35
Thames Valley	165	90	195	59	233	52	271	26	291	32
Warwickshire	29	79	29	79	20	55	25	52	30	30
West Mercia	116	91	103	87	92	64	106	56	173	44
West Midlands	264	77	396	68	513	59	565	53	608	45
West Yorkshire	361	90	437	83	480	76	376	71	439	55
Wiltshire	71	96	88	73	81	68	78	31	89	46

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