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Number of offences
	2005			2006
Police force area	Total court proceedings( 2)	Total findings of guilt	Total number of court fines	Total court proceedings( 2)	Total findings of guilt	Total number of court fines
Avon and Somerset	47	39	38	54	48	48
Bedfordshire	16	13	13	76	62	60
Cambridgeshire	19	19	19	52	46	42
Cheshire	15	14	14	36	30	29
Cleveland	7	7	6	20	16	14
Cumbria	41	35	34	57	53	52
Derbyshire	52	49	48	35	30	29
Devon and Cornwall	27	25	24	52	42	39
Dorset	3	3	1	4	3	2
Durham	2	2	2	16	15	15
Essex	64	53	46	71	65	60
Gloucestershire	4	4	4	10	7	6
Greater Manchester	154	136	124	183	158	144
Hampshire	40	34	33	69	63	62
Hertfordshire	70	64	61	65	52	51
Humberside	25	22	21	45	39	35
Kent	0	0	0	0	0	0
Lancashire	48	46	39	62	48	44
Leicestershire	28	26	20	26	24	16
Lincolnshire	15	12	11	30	24	23
London, City of	14	12	12	24	20	20
Merseyside	27	23	14	46	41	27
Metropolitan Police	658	545	496	685	588	541
Norfolk	21	17	17	31	21	19
Northamptonshire	0	0	0	0	0	0
Northumbria	22	20	20	98	89	84
North Yorkshire	35	30	29	34	33	32
Nottinghamshire	26	24	18	17	15	13
South Yorkshire	25	21	17	43	32	30
Staffordshire	21	21	19	19	16	16
Suffolk	22	17	17	21	16	15
Surrey	91	82	82	92	88	87
Sussex	2	2	1	0	0	0
Thames Valley	126	112	106	211	175	172
Warwickshire	17	13	8	20	16	14
West Mercia	59	50	48	88	74	70
West Midlands	109	88	79	121	94	89
West Yorkshire	47	38	36	52	37	29
Wiltshire	29	22	21	38	32	32
Dyfed-Powys	16	13	13	15	14	13
Gwent	4	3	3	6	4	3
North Wales	17	13	12	30	26	25
South Wales	25	20	20	28	21	18
England and Wales	2,090	1,789	1,646	2,682	2,277	2,120
(1) Offences under the Road Vehicles (Construction and Use) Regulations 1986, Regulations 110(1), 110(2) and 110(3). Introduced 1 December 2003. (2) Includes cases where a fixed penalty notice was originally issued but not paid and subsequently referred to court. Notes: 1. It is known that for some police force areas, the reporting of court proceedings in particular those relating to summary motoring offences, may be less than complete. 2. Every effort is made to ensure that the figures presented are accurate and complete. However, it is important to note that these data have been extracted from large administrative data systems generated by the courts and police forces. As a consequence, care should be taken to ensure data collection processes and their inevitable limitations are taken into account when those data are used.

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