Table 2: Number of fixed penalty notices issued for the use of a hand held mobile phone while driving( 1) by police force area, England and Wales, 2003-06
December
Police force area
2003
2004
2005
2006
England
Avon and Somerset
—
1,902
2,502
2,666
Bedfordshire
10
579
944
1,749
Cambridgeshire
—
219
1,347
3,505
Cheshire
—
2,689
2,891
4,985
Cleveland
13
1,066
1,955
2,263
Cumbria
13
528
1,021
1,412
Derbyshire
13
978
1,501
2,718
Devon and Cornwall
345
796
1,482
1,892
Dorset
—
521
657
1.982
Durham(2)
—
504
963
1,004
Essex
—
2,431
4,369
6.857
Gloucestershire
147
632
1,208
1,484
Greater Manchester
—
8,166
12,904
16,386
Hampshire
54
2,032
4,078
6,614
Hertfordshire
—
2,526
3,923
4,614
Humberside
—
381
1,202
1,924
Kent
15
1,707
4,829
4,708
Lancashire
34
1,719
3,079
3,937
Leicestershire
17
759
254
1,109
Lincolnshire
7
1,529
2,514
3,273
London, City of
45
137
1,647
2,077
Merseyside
—
1,836
5,684
8,800
Metropolitan
681
13,581
18,035
22,640
Norfolk(3)
17
887
904
—
Northamptonshire
1
297
971
1,428
Northumbria
56
1,271
2,409
3,248
North Yorkshire
5
720
1,289
2,414
Nottinghamshire
—
653
1,637
3,022
South Yorkshire
28
1,978
3,978
3,109
Staffordshire
12
264
2.346
2,416
Suffolk
42
978
1,707
2,613
Surrey
164
2,213
3,575
3,988
Sussex
—
546
1,105
2,318
Thames Valley
25
3,716
7.111
3,587
Warwickshire
—
621
918
1,281
West Mercia
—
2,200
5,246
6,842
West Midlands
144
3,864
5,065
4,661
West Yorkshire
—
2,368
4,272
4,997
Wiltshire
—
700
1,226
2,185
England
1,888
70,494
122,748
156,708
Wales
Dyfed-Powys
—
363
628
950
Gwent
—
517
938
1,404
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North Wales
—
999
424
3,083
South Wales
—
1,603
2,030
2,765
Wales
—
3,482
4,020
8,202
England and Wales
1,888
73,976
126,768
164,910
(1) Introduced 1 December 2003. (2) Revised figure provided for 2006. (3) Force unable to supply data for 2006 due to technical reasons. Note:
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 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.
Firearms: Crime
Mr. Mark Field:
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department (1) how many incidents of violence against the person involving a handgun were recorded (a) in total and (b) per 1,000 of the population for (i) England, (ii) the Avon and Somerset Constabulary area and (iii) Bath and North East Somerset in each year from 1997 to 2008; [231457]
(2) how many incidents of violence against the person where a fatality has occurred as a result of a handgun wound were recorded (a) in total and (b) per 1,000 of the population for (i) England, (ii) the Avon and Somerset Constabulary area and (iii) Bath and North East Somerset in each year from 1997 to 2008. [231458]
Mr. Alan Campbell:
Available data relate to offences involving a handgun where the firearm was fired, used as a blunt instrument or used as a threat.
Figures for England and Avon and Somerset police force area from 1997-98 up to and including 2006-07 are provided.
Table (A): Crimes in which a handgun was used( 1 ) and offences per 100,000 population: England and Avon and Somerset, 1997-98 to 2000-07
England
Avon and Somerset
Number of offences
Offences per 100,000 population
Number of offences
Offences per 100,000 population
1997-98
2,620
5
40
3
1998-99(2)
2,668
5
41
3
1999-2000
3,672
7
54
4
2000-01
4,095
8
77
5
2001-02(3)
5,858
12
87
6
2002-03
5,531
11
86
6
2003-04
5,123
10
85
6
2004-05
4,325
9
42
3
2005-06
4,647
9
23
2
2006-07
4,151
8
36
2
(1 )By being fired, used as a blunt instrument or used as a threat. (2 )There was a change in the counting rules for recorded crime on 1 April 1998. (3 )The National Crime Recording Standard was introduced on 1 April 2002. Figures for some crime categories may have been inflated by this.
