Table 2: Overall detection rates for violence against the person offences by police force area 2002-03 to 2006-07
Percentage
Police force area
2002-03
2003-04
2004-05
2005-06
2006-07
Avon and Somerset
28
26
27
38
42
Bedfordshire
58
52
58
55
51
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British Transport Police
35
35
37
43
50
Cambridgeshire
58
52
51
58
55
Cheshire
69
66
59
52
52
Cleveland
55
46
50
59
63
Cumbria
73
66
55
62
64
Derbyshire
61
57
57
52
49
Devon and Cornwall
55
54
57
50
48
Dorset
64
52
49
54
57
Durham
80
73
65
54
64
Dyfed-Powys
95
68
66
68
66
Essex
71
69
63
69
69
Gloucestershire
58
55
52
55
56
Greater Manchester
64
58
54
58
55
Gwent
78
81
74
70
63
Hampshire
70
51
51
46
44
Hertfordshire
66
64
68
60
57
Humberside
52
38
38
47
49
Kent
61
54
46
49
49
Lancashire
61
50
56
60
61
Leicestershire
54
38
40
51
47
Lincolnshire
48
46
52
55
57
London, City of
58
55
64
72
66
Merseyside
60
64
68
54
55
Metropolitan Police
24
26
43
45
31
Norfolk
56
56
55
60
56
Northamptonshire
70
64
69
60
60
Northumbria
64
61
57
65
70
North Wales
61
71
81
77
82
North Yorkshire
67
67
77
75
70
Nottinghamshire
46
50
53
53
54
South Wales
69
69
68
56
54
South Yorkshire
63
64
59
57
54
Staffordshire
69
70
67
67
65
Suffolk
78
68
66
59
65
Surrey
58
61
59
56
59
Sussex
63
60
52
55
57
Thames Valley
61
51
52
59
49
Warwickshire
70
60
63
59
58
West Mercia
70
66
71
67
65
West Midlands
57
51
46
50
47
West Yorkshire
65
47
51
49
54
Wiltshire
60
62
67
69
55
England and Wales
54
50
53
54
51
Note:
It should be noted that non-sanction detections that contribute to the overall detection rate have fallen in recent years reflecting a significant shift by many police forces away from recording detections of crime where no further action is taken. For this reason overall detection rates over time are not fully comparable. From 1 April 2007 the rules governing recording of non-sanction detections were revised to reduce the scope within which they can be claimed to a very limited set of circumstances
