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Serious Offences

Volume 23: debated on Tuesday 4 May 1982

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asked the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what is the clear-up rate for the total number of serious offences recorded by the police in 1981 for each police force.

The information requested is given in the following table. These clear-up rates are average rates for all serious offences recorded and so are affected by variations in the types of offence recorded and the circumstances of those offences.

Clear-up rate for total number of serious offences* recorded by the police in each police force area in England and Wales—1981
Police force areaPercentage
Avon and Somerset39
Bedfordshire41
Cambridgeshire56
Cheshire53
Cleveland48
Cumbria44
Derbyshire49
Devon and Cornwall42
Dorset40
Durham49
Essex43
Gloucestershire46
Greater Manchester41
Hampshire38
Hertfordshire45
Humberside40
Kent45
Lancashire50
Leicestershire50
Lincolnshire57
London, City of20
Merseyside34
Metropolitan Police17
Norfolk42
Northamptonshire45
Northumbria50
North Yorkshire44
Nottinghamshire55
South Yorkshire50
Staffordshire49
Suffolk51
Surrey33
Sussex47
Thames Valley41
Warwickshire40
West Mercia44
West Midlands32
West Yorkshire41
Wiltshire41
Dyfed Powys57
Gwent54
North Wales51
South Wales46
England and Wales38
* Excluding figures for "other criminal damage" value £20 and under.