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