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Table 4 Notifiable offences recorded by the police: clear-up rate (1) by police force area
England and Wales Percentages
Police force area April 1994 April 1995 April 1996 April 1997 April 1998
to to to to to
March 1995 March 1996 March 1997 March 1998 March 1999
Avon and Somerset 21 23 26 26 24
Bedfordshire 22 24 35 35 33
Cambridgeshire 23 20 25 28 29
Cheshire 31 33 34 34 37
Cleveland 20 25 25 23 23
Cumbria 39 38 35 41 44
Derbyshire 22 20 23 26 31
Devon and Cornwall 28 28 30 34 36
Dorset 30 28 26 30 31
Durham 31 30 30 30 33
Essex 38 33 27 28 29
Gloucestershire 25 26 22 26 31
Greater Manchester 34 19 18 20 25
Hampshire 27 28 29 30 35
Hertfordshire 24 30 29 33 34
Humberside 18 19 21 21 22
Kent 28 28 31 31 34
Lancashire 35 35 33 29 34
Leicestershire 31 29 31 34 34
Lincolnshire 31 42 44 46 40
London, City of 27 23 26 28 33
Merseyside 29 28 29 31 31
Metropolitan Police 24 26 25 25 22
Norfolk 32 31 34 36 37
Northamptonshire 30 30 35 35 33
Northumbria 23 23 25 26 30
North Yorkshire 24 24 26 26 33
Nottinghamshire 25 25 29 26 25
South Yorkshire 24 23 23 32 32
Staffordshire 31 33 34 34 32
Suffolk 35 34 33 39 41
Surrey 31 31 28 35 40
Sussex 25 29 28 26 25
Thames Valley 23 23 25 25 25
Warwickshire 24 25 24 29 26
West Mercia 29 27 28 27 34
West Midlands 25 23 24 25 28
West Yorkshire 21 21 25 27 27
Wiltshire 35 31 30 32 38
England 26 26 27 28 28
Dyfed-Powys 54 57 58 62 69
Gwent 50 49 51 51 55
North Wales 38 34 33 36 43
South Wales 26 31 34 36 39
Wales 34 36 39 41 46
England and Wales 26 26 27 28 29
(1) Excluding offences of 'other criminal damage' of value £20 and under, prior to March 1998.
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