Hansard

Offences

Volume 205: debated on Tuesday 3 March 1992

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Mrs. Currie

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department if he will list in rank order the number of offences committed per head of population in the most recent year available for each police authority in England and Wales.

Mr. John Patten

The available information is given in the table:

Notifiable offences recorded by the police per 100,000 population England and Wales 1990
Police force areaOffences per 100,000 population
Northumbria14,236
Cleveland13,363
Nottinghamshire13,122
Greater Manchester13,112
Humberside12,201
Metropolitan Police District11,642
West Yorkshire11,420
South Wales10,649
West Midlands10,123
Bedfordshire10,110
Merseyside9,614
Durham9,114
Avon and Somerset8,987
Northamptonshire8,353
South Yorkshire8,286
Leicestershire8,160
Gloucestershire8,007
Lancashire7,785
Thames Valley7,551
Norfolk7,298
Dorset7,294
Hampshire7,178
Gwent7,084
Staffordshire6,979
Warwickshire6,811
Cambridgeshire6,803
Cumbria6,782
Kent6,780
Sussex6,700
Lincolnshire6,677
Essex6,552
Derbyshire6,501
North Yorkshire6,403
Devon and Cornwall6,167
Wiltshire6,013
Suffolk5,888
West Mercia5,836
North Wales5,805
Cheshire5,786
Surrey5,724
Hertfordshire5,513
Dyfed-Powys4,427
TOTAL8,986
1 Including City of London.