Table 3: Sanction detection rates for offences of rape of a female , 2002-03 to 2007-08
Percentage
Police force
2002-03
2003-04
2004-05
2005-06
2006-07
2007-08
‘Rural’ forces( 1)
Cambridgeshire
19
11
21
21
15
17
Cumbria
54
28
29
37
43
24
Devon and Cornwall
26
17
22
14
19
17
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Durham
n/a
n/a
51
22
45
44
Dyfed-Powys
43
25
30
15
28
21
Gloucestershire
29
27
26
19
19
31
Lincolnshire
32
21
24
20
22
18
Norfolk
18
19
17
21
22
21
North Wales
20
23
24
20
14
15
North Yorkshire
36
37
32
25
38
24
Suffolk
29
27
17
23
18
17
West Mercia
30
33
27
26
17
22
Wiltshire
23
24
25
31
18
21
‘Non-rural’ forces
Avon and Somerset
22
21
17
22
20
24
Bedfordshire
30
20
23
21
15
18
British Transport Police
55
48
18
35
31
21
Cheshire
31
26
26
25
27
28
Cleveland
41
29
20
37
33
26
Derbyshire
33
31
26
29
19
29
Dorset
21
17
15
16
29
17
Essex
21
24
21
23
22
19
Greater Manchester
32
27
28
28
31
36
Gwent
62
57
35
37
31
18
Hampshire
35
28
23
19
19
18
Hertfordshire
31
39
28
34
26
20
Humberside
19
19
20
22
25
22
Kent
37
28
20
19
23
25
Lancashire
50
32
35
35
34
28
Leicestershire
22
26
22
16
20
12
London, City of
67
0
0
0
0
0
Merseyside
37
26
22
18
22
18
Metropolitan Police
26
26
25
31
33
33
Northamptonshire
39
27
28
26
23
20
Northumbria
31
27
24
26
29
29
Nottinghamshire
33
25
32
25
30
23
South Wales
61
51
57
30
29
40
South Yorkshire
38
36
29
22
27
30
Staffordshire
30
28
27
22
23
23
Surrey
24
33
21
30
27
24
Sussex
22
21
14
18
13
19
Thames Valley
25
17
22
21
19
18
Warwickshire
24
15
24
19
16
19
West Midlands
42
31
25
30
24
24
West Yorkshire
30
28
24
21
17
24
n/a = not available (1) The defining of rural police force areas within England and Wales has been taken in accordance with the ACORN (“A Classification Of Residential Neighbourhoods”) guidance as published in the Statistical Bulletin 01/02 “Rural Crime England and Wales”. The data cover 13 forces which ACORN defines as either ‘Most Rural’ (Dyfed-Powys, Lincolnshire, North Yorkshire and North Wales) or ‘Less Rural’ (Cambridgeshire, Cumbria, Devon and Cornwall, Durham, Gloucestershire, Norfolk, Suffolk, West Mercia and Wiltshire).
