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Table 3: Number of penalty notices for disorder issued to persons aged 16 and aged 17 to 18 for alcohol related offences, England and Wales 2008( 1, 2, 3)
	Aged 16		Aged 17-18
Police force area	Male	Female	Male	Female
Avon and Somerset	9	1	50	14
Bedfordshire	4	-	17	2
British Transport police	2	2	46	13
Cambridgeshire	6	-	38	3
Cheshire	1	1	68	12
Cleveland	19	7	155	54
Cumbria	-	-	37	12
Derbyshire	20	3	103	34
Devon and Cornwall	6	2	128	28
Dorset	3	1	39	11
Durham	9	3	118	14
Essex	1	2	31	5
Gloucestershire	-	3	19	1
Greater Manchester	16	7	123	37
Hampshire	6	1	105	27
Hertfordshire	14	2	65	11
Humberside	24	7	109	21
Kent	25	12	228	51
Lancashire	140	44	651	154
Leicestershire	-	-	24	8
Lincolnshire	3	1	16	4
London, City of	-	-	1	-
Merseyside	98	44	498	119
Metropolitan	17	7	219	46
Norfolk	2	2	49	1
North Yorkshire	20	4	118	23
Northamptonshire	11	5	54	8
Northumbria	34	13	517	155
Nottinghamshire	8	4	69	17
South Yorkshire	46	12	398	78
Staffordshire	7	3	77	15
Suffolk	2	-	13	1
Surrey	4	1	18	10
Sussex	3	3	132	25
Thames Valley	4	1	59	19
Warwickshire	-	-	19	3
West Mercia	4	-	86	14
West Midlands	46	9	366	78
West Yorkshire	14	6	202	53
Wiltshire	14	-	51	14
Dyfed Powys	1	-	22	7
Gwent	2	-	51	9
North Wales	7	1	98	17
South Wales	0	1	35	4
England and Wales	652	215	5,322	1,232
(1) 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 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. (2) The penalty notice for disorder (PND) scheme was implemented in all 43 police forces in England and Wales in 2004 under the provisions of the Criminal Justice and Police Act 2001. (3) Data are published at Age 16 and over. Source: Justice Statistics Analytical Services in the Ministry of Justice

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Antisocial Behaviour Orders

Mr. Vara: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department how many antisocial behaviour orders were issued to people aged (a) under 18 and (b) 18 or more years old in (i) England and (ii) Cambridgeshire in each of the last 10 years. [324753]

Mr. Hanson: Antisocial behaviour orders (ASBOs) became available to courts from April 1999. The number of ASBOs issued at all courts in England and the Cambridgeshire Criminal Justice System area covering the period to 31 December 2007 (latest currently available) are shown in the table.

Number of antisocial behaviour orders (ASBOs) issued all courts( 1) in England and the Cambridgeshire Criminal Justice System (CJS) area, by age group( 2) , 1 April 1999 to 31 December 2007
	Area
	England			Cambridgeshire CJS area
	10-17	18+	N /k	10-17	18+	N /k
April 1999-May 2000	-	-	104	-	-	5
June-December 2000	61	63	11	-	1	-
2001	190	148	6	1	1	-
2002	244	165	6	2	-	-
2003	598	679	8	10	5	-
2004	1,291	2,013	52	3	23	-
2005	1,493	2,344	70	14	34	2
2006	971	1,509	27	15	16	-
2007	869	1,250	17	4	16	-
(1) Includes ASBOs issued on application by magistrates courts acting in their civil capacity and county courts, which became available on 1 April 1999 and ASBOs made following conviction for a relevant criminal offence at the Crown court and at magistrates courts (acting in their criminal capacity), which became available on 2 December 2002. (2) No age details are available for the period April 1999 to May 2000. N/k indicates that the defendant's ages were not reported to the Ministry of Justice. Notes: 1. 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. 2. Previously issued data have been revised.

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