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	2002-03( 4)		2003-04		2004-05( 5)		2005-06		2006-07
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	429	22	482	21	471	18	310	22	430	20
Bedfordshire	121	29	147	21	163	23	195	23	149	15
Cambridgeshire	200	29	232	15	236	21	200	22	209	15
Cheshire	110	48	184	29	197	28	181	28	170	30
Cleveland	110	41	145	31	143	22	171	38	140	34
Cumbria	66	64	74	30	79	30	77	35	73	47
Derbyshire	198	35	233	33	273	31	282	30	284	21
Devon and Cornwall	275	30	329	19	388	26	400	18	395	19
Dorset	132	25	144	17	163	17	181	17	132	27
Durham	62	68	72	71	91	60	158	26	83	43
Dyfed-Powys	46	91	101	25	101	35	85	18	102	28
Essex	294	32	335	29	334	27	384	25	355	25
Gloucestershire	122	31	107	28	115	29	161	19	160	21
Greater Manchester	719	46	846	32	899	30	842	31	837	31
Gwent	148	80	82	78	112	52	126	40	145	36
Hampshire	358	41	462	34	616	26	656	21	662	19
Hertfordshire	169	50	161	50	184	38	211	41	199	28
Humberside	258	23	350	20	329	22	350	23	291	24
Kent	216	38	286	27	358	22	445	22	395	23
Lancashire	245	52	270	35	285	37	326	35	288	37
Leicestershire	257	26	250	28	308	23	307	19	298	20
Lincolnshire	137	40	163	28	178	31	187	24	155	24
London, City of	3	100	4	0	7	0	6	0	8	0
Merseyside	340	47	383	43	374	35	378	24	298	28
Metropolitan Police	2,728	29	2,571	33	2,446	25	2,398	36	2,304	34
Norfolk	185	24	204	18	190	21	230	23	165	24
Northamptonshire	176	53	163	37	127	32	159	33	162	25
Northumbria	341	36	338	30	344	25	359	29	345	33
North Wales	114	26	140	29	159	27	170	25	106	16
North Yorkshire	131	43	120	41	137	41	145	34	135	41
Nottinghamshire	239	34	303	27	254	36	265	27	255	31
South Wales	189	62	191	53	185	60	216	29	273	28
South Yorkshire	190	40	182	38	287	30	338	24	267	27
Staffordshire	251	40	248	32	306	30	292	26	285	24
Suffolk	148	30	172	26	180	21	207	25	175	20
Surrey	129	32	144	35	129	26	139	32	138	29
Sussex	348	26	305	24	458	15	424	21	440	15
Thames Valley	365	27	436	18	401	24	448	22	437	19
Warwickshire	62	27	80	19	85	25	86	19	110	17
West Mercia	219	37	226	35	214	31	233	27	220	20
West Midlands	746	41	816	32	973	25	943	29	912	23
West Yorkshire	553	42	626	31	580	25	604	25	617	19
Wiltshire	155	37	139	41	111	32	148	33	157	18
n/a = not available (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. (6) In accordance with guidance from the Office for National Statistics, values less than 3 have been suppressed in order to protect confidentiality.

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