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Crime

Mr. Bone: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department how many crimes were reported in each police force area in each of the last 10 years; and what the detection rate in each police force area was in each such year. [223629]

Mr. Coaker [holding answer 15 September 2008]: The information requested is in the following tables.


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Table 1: Offences recorded by the police and detection rates, 1998-99 to 2001-02
1998-99 1999- 20 00( 1) 2000-01 2001-02
Police force area Number of offences Detection rate (%) Number of offences Detection rate (%) Number of offences Detection rate (%) Number of offences Detection rate (%)

Avon and Somerset

150,089

24

147,104

22

149,254

21

177,196

14

Bedfordshire

49,076

33

53,607

25

49,627

27

52,210

25

British Transport Police

n/a

n/a

n/a

n/a

n/a

n/a

n/a

n/a

Cambridgeshire

67,256

29

68,722

25

64,343

24

69,559

22

Cheshire

65,119

37

64,528

31

63,288

30

70,990

26

Cleveland

67,030

23

65,185

22

64,357

21

72,003

20

Cumbria

40,202

44

37,729

39

32,873

34

37,229

32

Derbyshire

84,459

31

85,650

28

81,668

26

89,841

25

Devon and Cornwall

110,644

36

110,361

35

102,853

34

101,425

32

Dorset

52,755

31

52,332

26

50,320

25

54,869

27

Durham

50,413

33

48,796

32

44,702

34

51,478

33

Dyfed-Powys

24,588

69

23,709

65

22,878

63

23,969

64

Essex

95,797

29

102,777

30

106,768

26

113,150

26

Gloucestershire

48,206

31

50,993

31

49,871

32

50,467

30

Greater Manchester

362,450

25

377,086

23

363,454

22

380,801

21

Gwent

58,738

55

60,132

53

56,728

57

46,916

55

Hampshire

128,253

35

135,174

32

133,553

29

135,961

29

Hertfordshire

49,309

34

52,741

27

64,215

24

67,237

24

Humberside

130,691

22

121,442

19

110,312

21

118,039

20

Kent

129,340

34

124,918

33

128,382

28

120,155

28

Lancashire

118,085

34

108,866

29

117,633

27

137,760

26

Leicestershire

93,397

34

94,577

30

86,422

28

88,557

28

Lincolnshire

46,670

40

46,170

28

44,884

25

49,792

27

London, City of

7,144

33

7,775

32

8,255

27

10,093

34

Merseyside

140,874

31

148,172

26

142,807

28

151,041

24

Metropolitan Police

934,254

22

1,052,049

16

994,233

15

1,056,513

14

Norfolk

57,129

37

59,387

30

57,259

26

58,923

25

Northamptonshire

65,466

33

61,240

33

56,731

33

60,458

31

Northumbria

151,298

30

142,279

31

134,777

31

139,130

31

North Wales

43,848

43

44,606

36

47,712

31

53,839

28

North Yorkshire

55,309

33

53,554

31

51,551

30

59,125

26

Nottinghamshire

135,255

25

136,875

21

139,903

20

159,462

18

South Wales

134,820

39

127,040

31

111,131

31

116,708

33

South Yorkshire

133,059

32

131,700

25

125,179

25

134,764

23

Staffordshire

91,919

32

98,852

22

104,705

23

117,027

20

Suffolk

39,908

41

43,355

36

44,317

35

50,492

33

Surrey

42,467

40

46,288

32

63,321

28

61,457

25

Sussex

130,402

25

136,566

25

136,920

23

135,110

25

Thames Valley

176,477

25

191,875

20

187,989

22

196,980

24

Warwickshire

38,485

26

38,593

22

36,963

22

42,211

25

West Mercia

81,782

34

84,797

29

78,363

28

102,257

28

West Midlands

314,628

30

364,887

27

364,879

28

372,257

29

West Yorkshire

273,809

27

260,237

25

258,908

23

298,845

19

Wiltshire

38,189

38

38,461

33

36,555

29

38,728

30

England and Wales

5,109,089

29

5,301,187

25

5,170,843

24

5,525,024

22

n/a = Not available
(1) New instructions which clarified the rules for detecting crime were introduced on 1 April 1999.
Notes:
1. The data in this table are prior to the introduction of the National Crime Recording Standard. These figures are not directly comparable with those for later years.
2. 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.

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