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Figure 5 NOTIFIABLE OFFENCES RECORDED BY THE POLICE Underlying trend between the twelve months ending March 1999 and the previous twelve months by police force area More than 2% increase 0 to 2% increase 0 to 2% decrease Between 2% and 4% decrease More than 4% decrease Dyfed-Powys Devon and Cornwall North Wales South Wales Cumbria Merseyside Gwent Lancashire Cheshire Avon and Somerset Northumbria Dorset 8 Durham Greater Manchester West Mercia North Yorkshire West Yorkshire Staffordshire Gloucestershire Derbyshire Cleveland South Yorkshire West Midlands Warwickshire Wiltshire Nottinghamshire Leicestershire Hampshire Humberside Lincolnshire Northamptonshire Thames Valley Cambridgeshire Bedfordshire Hertfordshire Essex Metropolitan and City Surrey Sussex Norfolk Suffolk Kent
Figure 6 NOTIFIABLE OFFENCES IN METROPOLITAN AND 3,500,000 3,000,000 2,500,000 2,000,000 1,500,000 1,000,000 500,000 0 NON-METROPOLITAN POLICE FORCE AREAS Metropolitan forces Non-Metropolitan forces 1989 1990 1991 1992 1993 1994 1995 1996 1997 1998 1999 12 months ending March 5. OFFENCES CLEARED UP (TABLES B, 5, 6; FIGURE 7) (a) The introduction of the new counting rules and offence coverage on 1 April 1998 had a knock-on effect on the number of crimes detected by the police during the year. A number of the newly notifiable offences, such as drug possession, common assault, and dangerous driving have relatively high clear-up rates which have increased the overall clear-up rate. However, all offences of criminal damage are now included within the clear-up rate; previously offences where the damage was valued at £20 or under were excluded. This will have reduced the overall clear-up rate. (b) It has not been possible to obtain accurate figures for 1998/99 clear-ups on the old rules basis. Therefore, all trend comparisons in this section do not exclude the effects of the new counting rules. (c) The proportion of offences cleared up during 1998/99 – at 29 per cent – was 1 percentage point higher than during 1997/98. The total number of offences cleared up at 1,492,300 was 240,600 higher than during the previous financial year. (d) A high proportion of violent crimes are cleared up. Overall, 66 per cent of violent crime was cleared up during 1998/99; however this is a reduction of 3 percentage points since 1997/98. Within this total figure, offences of violence against the person and sexual offences had clear-up rates of 71 and 68 per cent respectively. The rate for robbery was 23 per cent. 9
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