Table 2: Number of cannabis warnings recorded as method of detection for possession of cannabis offences, by police force area in England and Wales, 2004-05 to 2008-09
Police force area
2004-05
2005-06
2006-07
2007-08
2008-09( 1)
Avon and Somerset
977
2,578
3,600
2,554
2,598
Bedfordshire
603
643
324
289
347
British Transport Police
659
203
430
1,707
3,214
Cambridgeshire
349
492
956
1,594
1,257
Cheshire
311
393
532
757
1,109
Cleveland
120
192
331
686
851
Cumbria
272
244
231
218
272
Derbyshire
665
513
497
520
600
Devon and Cornwall
1,956
1,532
1,473
1,380
1,571
Dorset 369
340
348
393
349
Durham
252
207
257
256
333
Dyfed-Powys
917
799
887
882
794
Essex
556
697
722
1,348
1,597
Gloucestershire
371
395
419
459
529
Greater Manchester
1,751
3,235
4,943
5,311
5,136
Gwent
159
396
646
757
998
Hampshire
698
1,113
1,477
2,260
1,943
Hertfordshire
258
488
1,394
1,485
1,897
Humberside
32
149
533
895
991
Kent
198
497
652
846
1,276
Lancashire
390
237
210
528
791
Leicestershire
154
978
1,555
1,967
1,701
Lincolnshire
79
473
543
508
491
London City of
505
682
373
436
506
Merseyside
961
8,561
7,204
7,229
8,114
Metropolitan Police
13,160
21,040
30,554
46,979
47,204
Norfolk
486
638
731
786
751
Northamptonshire
120
111
206
311
439
Northumbria(2)
n/a
n/a
761
916
1,459
North Wales
543
799
971
985
1,059
North Yorkshire
727
655
554
701
665
Nottinghamshire
529
855
1,077
1,210
950
South Wales
520
536
1,266
2,414
2,220
South Yorkshire
560
1,023
1,027
1,296
1,627
Staffordshire
867
1,323
1,282
1,150
1,153
Suffolk
600
64
573
599
744
Surrey
523
482
754
993
811
Sussex
866
1,350
1,971
2,447
1,369
Thames Valley
2,232
1,883
2,431
2,753
2,518
Warwickshire
340
418
650
399
342
West Mercia
572
582
686
756
872
West Midlands
2,025
3,451
2,852
2,286
2,229
West Yorkshire
1,212
1,839
1,539
1,340
1,245
Wiltshire
274
394
231
218
329
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England and Wales
39,718
63,480
80,653
103,804
107,251
n/a= Not available
1. Since 26 January 2009, Penalty Notices for Disorder (PNDs) can be given for cannabis possession. Up to the end of March 2009 such PNDs were counted together with cannabis warnings.
2 Northumbria Police have advised that their IT Data Capture System was unable to separately identify cannabis warnings during 2004-05 and 2005-06 and that for these two years their cautions data have been inflated by what are now counted as cannabis warnings.
