Table 2: Overall detection rates for robbery offences by police force area, 2002-03 to 2007-08( 1)
Police force area
2002-03
2003-04
2004-05
2005-06
2006-07
2007-08
Avon and Somerset
13
15
15
17
19
20
Bedfordshire
19
15
23
19
12
16
British Transport Police
24
28
29
30
36
39
Cambridgeshire
20
19
24
25
18
20
Cheshire
25
27
24
22
26
23
Cleveland
19
17
19
20
23
26
Cumbria
38
31
29
45
34
44
Derbyshire
24
19
26
25
22
26
Devon and Cornwall
23
27
25
27
22
28
Dorset
17
19
25
31
27
28
Durham
29
33
25
30
30
40
Dyfed-Powys
75
50
37
70
43
57
Essex
21
21
23
24
24
21
Gloucestershire
41
27
34
31
30
36
Greater Manchester
15
17
18
19
19
19
Gwent
41
38
39
35
22
18
Hampshire
31
26
33
18
27
28
Hertfordshire
31
34
36
24
25
27
Humberside
14
17
20
18
19
25
Kent
24
23
15
18
18
20
Lancashire
30
32
34
32
39
36
Leicestershire
23
18
18
21
25
25
Lincolnshire
28
23
23
20
26
21
London, City of
24
14
29
23
20
20
Merseyside
23
26
27
15
20
24
Metropolitan Police
13
12
15
14
14
16
Norfolk
23
23
16
26
16
20
Northamptonshire
24
19
22
20
19
26
Northumbria
28
26
22
25
31
31
North Wales
25
36
40
36
34
38
North Yorkshire
21
32
31
31
26
29
Nottinghamshire
19
18
21
18
14
18
South Wales
31
36
43
29
27
33
South Yorkshire
23
31
32
33
30
36
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Staffordshire
24
23
27
28
25
18
Suffolk
34
31
29
25
27
27
Surrey
26
28
31
34
32
26
Sussex
20
21
23
20
21
22
Thames Valley
29
25
24
23
20
19
Warwickshire
27
28
24
16
18
24
West Mercia
25
31
40
34
31
22
West Midlands
23
23
21
20
20
21
West Yorkshire
26
28
32
28
28
27
Wiltshire
25
28
31
27
16
34
(1) The National Crime Recording Standard was introduced in April 2002. Figures before and after that date are not directly comparable. (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.
