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This table is also available as table 2.8 of the Ministry of Justice statistical bulletin, “Sentencing Statistics 2006” at the following website:
Offensive Weapons: Sentencing
Chris Huhne:
To ask the Secretary of State for Justice how many people were convicted for possession
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of bladed and pointed articles in a public place in each police authority area in each of the last 10 years; and how many of these received a (a) custodial sentence, (b) community sentence and (c) fine. [195259]
Maria Eagle:
The requested information is contained in the following tables.
| Number of persons sentenced( 1) for the offence of possession of having an article with a blade or point in a public place, all courts, England and Wales, 1997 to 2006 |
| | 1997 | 1998 |
| Police f orce | Immediate custody | Community sentence | Fine | Immediate custody | Community sentence | Fine |
|
Avon and Somerset
|
5
|
17
|
10
|
9
|
17
|
15
|
|
Bedfordshire
|
5
|
6
|
7
|
9
|
12
|
7
|
|
Cambridgeshire
|
1
|
6
|
7
|
4
|
9
|
5
|
|
Cheshire
|
7
|
14
|
17
|
11
|
18
|
22
|
|
City of London
|
0
|
3
|
5
|
0
|
0
|
5
|
|
Cleveland
|
1
|
0
|
8
|
1
|
9
|
9
|
|
Cumbria
|
2
|
7
|
16
|
3
|
7
|
8
|
|
Derbyshire
|
1
|
10
|
15
|
7
|
5
|
11
|
|
Devon and Cornwall
|
7
|
9
|
10
|
18
|
20
|
19
|
|
Dorset
|
3
|
6
|
7
|
7
|
12
|
7
|
|
Durham
|
1
|
4
|
9
|
3
|
11
|
7
|
|
Essex
|
19
|
34
|
17
|
27
|
39
|
13
|
|
Gloucestershire
|
1
|
4
|
6
|
2
|
8
|
12
|
|
Greater Manchester
|
20
|
52
|
51
|
30
|
49
|
70
|
|
Hampshire
|
6
|
20
|
26
|
11
|
26
|
27
|
|
Hertfordshire
|
3
|
12
|
10
|
4
|
9
|
5
|
|
Humberside
|
9
|
11
|
9
|
7
|
16
|
10
|
|
Kent
|
2
|
10
|
8
|
8
|
18
|
25
|
|
Lancashire
|
9
|
19
|
38
|
18
|
20
|
34
|
|
Leicestershire
|
4
|
23
|
6
|
10
|
28
|
12
|
|
Lincolnshire
|
0
|
2
|
5
|
1
|
11
|
7
|
|
Merseyside
|
8
|
31
|
81
|
15
|
31
|
70
|
|
Metropolitan Police
|
190
|
231
|
489
|
225
|
278
|
489
|
|
Norfolk
|
1
|
8
|
10
|
9
|
20
|
7
|
|
North Yorkshire
|
4
|
9
|
10
|
3
|
10
|
12
|
|
Northamptonshire
|
3
|
1
|
1
|
1
|
2
|
3
|
|
Northumbria
|
4
|
23
|
33
|
8
|
19
|
23
|
|
Nottinghamshire
|
7
|
18
|
9
|
5
|
22
|
6
|
|
South Yorkshire
|
3
|
15
|
15
|
7
|
18
|
22
|
|
Staffordshire
|
0
|
4
|
8
|
4
|
9
|
10
|
|
Suffolk
|
2
|
4
|
16
|
1
|
6
|
7
|
|
Surrey
|
0
|
5
|
3
|
0
|
0
|
4
|
|
Sussex
|
5
|
24
|
13
|
14
|
22
|
12
|
|
Thames Valley
|
9
|
13
|
19
|
8
|
20
|
25
|
|
Warwickshire
|
0
|
6
|
3
|
3
|
14
|
10
|
|
West Mercia
|
0
|
6
|
8
|
4
|
8
|
9
|
|
West Midlands
|
10
|
35
|
86
|
12
|
31
|
65
|
|
West Yorkshire
|
4
|
13
|
18
|
8
|
12
|
8
|
|
Wiltshire
|
0
|
8
|
4
|
2
|
20
|
5
|
|
Dyfed-Powys
|
3
|
2
|
3
|
2
|
3
|
5
|
|
Gwent
|
1
|
4
|
14
|
1
|
2
|
10
|
|
North Wales
|
5
|
13
|
18
|
9
|
12
|
24
|
|
South Wales
|
7
|
10
|
29
|
19
|
16
|
28
|
|
Total
|
93,841
|
139,990
|
987,985
|
100,566
|
149,388
|
1,049,115
|
