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Table 5 Notifiable offences recorded by the police: percentage cleared up by method of clear-up
England and Wales 1998/99 Percentages
Police force area Total offences Percentage
cleared up of offences Method of clear-up
cleared up
Charge Caution TIC Other Primary TIC (not Interview
or (previously means previously of
summons recorded) (1) recorded) convicted
prisoner
Avon and Somerset 36,698 24 10 3 3 7 23 1 1
Bedfordshire 16,386 33 13 6 3 7 29 0 4
Cambridgeshire 19,236 29 13 3 2 5 23 0 5
Cheshire 24,052 37 26 4 2 3 35 1 1
Cleveland 15,109 23 15 4 2 1 22 1 0
Cumbria 17,666 44 23 6 2 10 41 1 2
Derbyshire 26,172 31 14 7 1 3 25 1 5
Devon and Cornwall 40,263 36 15 6 2 10 33 0 3
Dorset 16,193 31 13 3 6 4 26 0 5
Durham 16,831 33 21 3 2 5 30 1 3
Essex 27,542 29 15 5 2 4 26 1 2
Gloucestershire 14,879 31 14 5 4 3 26 1 4
Greater Manchester 89,080 25 14 4 1 5 24 0 0
Hampshire 45,138 35 20 6 2 6 33 0 1
Hertfordshire 16,840 34 15 5 3 5 28 1 5
Humberside 29,383 22 12 3 1 5 21 0 1
Kent 44,213 34 16 6 2 7 31 1 2
Lancashire 40,309 34 21 5 2 3 30 1 3
Leicestershire 32,003 34 16 4 4 8 31 1 2
Lincolnshire 18,761 40 19 4 2 9 33 1 6
London, City of 2,384 33 19 10 1 3 32 0 1
Merseyside 43,368 31 18 4 2 3 28 1 2
Metropolitan Police 204,152 22 10 4 1 6 21 0 0
Norfolk 20,895 37 19 5 2 4 30 1 6
Northamptonshire 21,793 33 15 4 3 7 30 1 3
Northumbria 44,796 30 17 6 4 2 29 0 0
North Yorkshire 17,976 33 20 4 2 4 29 1 3
Nottinghamshire 33,974 25 14 4 2 1 21 1 3
South Yorkshire 42,786 32 16 5 1 1 23 0 8
Staffordshire 29,245 32 17 4 2 5 28 1 3
Suffolk 16,470 41 17 7 2 9 35 0 6
Surrey 16,850 40 15 9 2 7 32 0 7
Sussex 32,995 25 10 4 1 8 24 0 1
Thames Valley 43,465 25 11 4 1 4 20 1 4
Warwickshire 10,013 26 12 5 1 4 23 1 2
West Mercia 27,607 34 17 6 1 4 29 1 4
West Midlands 89,214 28 15 5 4 3 27 1 0
West Yorkshire 73,196 27 16 3 4 2 25 0 2
Wiltshire 14,337 38 19 7 1 7 34 1 3
Dyfed-Powys 16,890 69 38 15 2 7 62 1 5
Gwent 32,085 55 25 10 2 10 48 1 6
North Wales 18,956 43 22 8 1 5 36 1 6
South Wales 52,064 39 18 3 3 3 27 0 11
England and Wales 1,492,265 29 15 5 2 5 26 1 2
(1) See note 5 on page 24.
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