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Table 2 Notifiable offences recorded by the police by police force area
England and Wales Number of offences, percentages and rate per 100,000 population
Police force area April 1997 April 1998
Underlying trend (2)
Offences per 100,000
to to
population; April 1998
March 1998 March 1999
Number Percentage to March 1999
Old rules (1) New rules (1) New rules (1)
Avon and Somerset 144,556 131,955 150,089 -12,601 -8.7 10,153
Bedfordshire 45,250 43,947 49,076 -1,303 -2.9 8,886
Cambridgeshire 58,864 59,678 67,256 814 1.4 9,443
Cheshire 60,716 59,414 65,119 -1,302 -2.1 6,631
Cleveland 63,634 63,726 67,030 92 0.1 12,059
Cumbria 35,777 35,171 40,202 -606 -1.7 8,169
Derbyshire 74,436 74,047 84,459 -389 -0.5 8,748
Devon and Cornwall 92,800 88,484 110,644 -4,316 -4.7 7,132
Dorset 43,536 43,903 52,755 367 0.8 7,673
Durham 47,311 44,178 50,413 -3,133 -6.6 8,287
Essex 89,380 87,147 95,797 -2,233 -2.5 6,290
Gloucestershire 46,044 44,000 48,206 -2,044 -4.4 8,619
Greater Manchester 315,000 336,172 362,450 21,172 6.7 14,093
Hampshire 121,042 115,008 128,253 -6,034 -5.0 7,277
Hertfordshire 49,426 46,255 49,309 -3,171 -6.4 5,657
Humberside 123,722 119,290 130,691 -4,432 -3.6 14,772
Kent 118,892 110,244 129,340 -8,648 -7.3 8,259
Lancashire 116,947 105,161 118,117 -11,786 -10.1 8,288
Leicestershire 81,183 81,714 93,397 531 0.7 10,053
Lincolnshire 41,792 39,718 46,670 -2,074 -5.0 7,535
London, City of (3) 5,137 6,035 7,144 898 17.5 N/A
Merseyside 125,312 130,606 140,874 5,294 4.2 9,967
Metropolitan Police (3) 778,279 767,880 934,254 -10,399 -1.3 12,354
Norfolk 52,580 51,167 57,129 -1,413 -2.7 7,296
Northamptonshire 53,645 55,842 65,466 2,197 4.1 10,727
Northumbria 134,457 132,588 151,298 -1,869 -1.4 10,579
North Yorkshire 50,297 48,372 55,309 -1,925 -3.8 7,498
Nottinghamshire 125,097 123,680 135,255 -1,417 -1.1 13,104
South Yorkshire 125,907 124,427 133,059 -1,480 -1.2 10,200
Staffordshire 89,820 84,495 91,919 -5,325 -5.9 8,669
Suffolk 35,262 34,280 39,908 -982 -2.8 5,987
Surrey 38,015 36,376 42,467 -1,639 -4.3 5,414
Sussex 110,320 111,468 130,402 1,148 1.0 8,767
Thames Valley 154,014 161,646 176,477 7,632 5.0 8,461
Warwickshire 35,604 35,659 38,485 55 0.2 7,642
West Mercia 75,330 69,451 81,782 -5,879 -7.8 7,261
West Midlands 277,970 276,512 314,611 -1,458 -0.5 11,959
West Yorkshire 242,646 246,438 273,809 3,792 1.6 12,976
Wiltshire 32,831 32,984 38,189 153 0.5 6,372
Dyfed-Powys 17,994 17,858 24,588 -136 -0.8 5,145
Gwent 47,043 47,381 58,738 338 0.7 10,547
North Wales 38,658 36,570 43,848 -2,088 -5.4 6,684
South Wales 128,811 120,890 134,820 -7,921 -6.1 10,906
Total met-forces 2,004,708 2,020,658 2,317,499 15,950 0.8 12,146
Total non-met forces 2,540,629 2,461,159 2,791,605 -79,470 -3.1 8,426
Total 4,545,337 4,481,817 5,109,104 -63,520 -1.4 9,785
(1) 'Old rules' denotes the number of crimes that would have been recorded using the coverage and rules in use until 31 March 1998.
'New rules' denotes crimes recorded using the expanded offence coverage and revised counting rules which came into effect on 1 April 1998.
(2) Underlying trend is calculated using the old rule counting figures.
(3) Offences per 100,000 population for City of London and Metropolitian Police are combined.
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