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	2005-06		2006-07		2007-08
Police force area	Number of offences	Detection rate (%)	Number of offences	Detection rate (%)	Number of offences	Detection rate (%)
Avon and Somerset	154,876	23	160,834	24	144,970	25
Bedfordshire	59,493	25	57,289	22	51,327	22
British Transport Police	76,385	20	76,405	24	67,875	27
Cambridgeshire	66,804	27	69,146	25	65,308	27
Cheshire	95,297	27	89,023	27	79,278	26
Cleveland	71,962	30	68,452	31	66,646	33
Cumbria	42,722	35	38,640	36	35,282	38
Derbyshire	81,085	27	81,037	26	77,534	29
Devon and Cornwall	124,533	28	123,851	27	111,260	28
Dorset	58,724	30	55,142	30	51,285	27
Durham	53,123	27	53,173	30	47,839	29
Dyfed-Powys	30,185	45	30,124	45	25,639	42
Essex	132,378	31	127,163	33	119,164	32
Gloucestershire	53,062	32	52,388	33	45,685	32
Greater Manchester	328,237	25	332,554	25	297,966	25
Gwent	53,627	36	53,182	33	48,472	30
Hampshire	175,293	24	180,894	23	164,940	27
Hertfordshire	95,273	26	91,408	29	80,239	30
Humberside	116,104	23	112,771	25	97,034	31
Kent	147,112	26	146,402	26	131,269	27
Lancashire	142,229	32	135,837	35	123,681	35
Leicestershire	91,185	30	93,108	28	88,253	27
Lincolnshire	57,608	26	55,478	28	51,102	28
London, City of	8,432	43	7,973	39	7,572	36
Merseyside	174,989	28	155,208	29	126,934	32
Metropolitan Police	984,125	24	921,779	21	862,032	25
Norfolk	64,902	31	62,626	30	55,686	32
Northamptonshire	68,075	25	65,975	26	63,657	25
Northumbria	131,968	35	129,070	40	109,251	38
North Wales	50,270	43	53,450	48	45,545	40
North Yorkshire	58,850	35	54,526	33	50,265	33
Nottinghamshire	138,289	22	136,531	23	124,880	23
South Wales	123,942	26	121,717	25	123,967	26
South Yorkshire	162,845	27	159,477	26	145,769	27
Staffordshire	104,411	35	104,336	35	89,348	28
Suffolk	52,831	30	51,096	31	48,330	30
Surrey	68,978	25	74,242	30	68,947	27
Sussex	135,690	30	133,147	31	119,393	32
Thames Valley	201,412	28	211,325	25	196,008	25
Warwickshire	43,392	25	45,257	27	39,968	26
West Mercia	85,353	34	82,095	34	80,054	29
West Midlands	288,055	26	278,660	27	248,235	27
West Yorkshire	258,887	28	249,670	29	228,195	24
Wiltshire	42,181	32	45,098	26	44,587	27
England and Wales	5,555,174	27	5,427,559	27	4,950,671	28
Notes: 1. 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. 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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