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Shoplifting

Volume 405: debated on Monday 19 May 2003

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To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department how many convictions for offences relating to shoplifting there have been in each police authority in each of the last five years. [113024]

The information requested is contained in the table.Statistics for 2002 will be available in the autumn.

Persons1 convicted of thefts from shops, by police force area— England and Wales
Number of persons
Police force area19971998199920002001
Avon and Somerset1,3411,3971,9211,9111,952
Bedfordshire610717798805867
Cambridgeshire502594704872895
Cheshire1,2321,4001,5301,6221,497
Cleveland1,1451,4201,9492,0972,082
Cumbria654621670616702
Derbyshire5816078251;0291,241
Devon and Cornwall1,3151,3011,4811,4641,634
Dorset533820855918798
Durham3824918211,0051,064
Essex1,6371,7141,6221,5781,744
Gloucestershire515637643757795
Greater Manchester4,1814,1214,3094,4884,628
Hampshire1,8982,3382,5222,3532,390
Hertfordshire576611779889917
Humberside1,1281,4081,7191,8151,705
Kent1,9212,3522,2812,3942,433
Lancashire2,6352,8252,7472,9542,930
Leicestershire7649541,0341,0361,172
Lincolnshire542692922921982
London, City of113127178184220
Merseyside2,5212,5912,7123,1193,174
Metropolitan Police10,43711,74511,89310,88710,697
Norfolk7139281,0279911,088
Northamptonshire497687853855869
Northumbria1,8572,3422,7722,8513,097
North Yorkshire7248069881,0021,010
Nottinghamshire1,1751,3521,6942,0442,182
South Yorkshire1,7011,9612,5052,7812,833
Staffordshire27869211,1781,7771,325
Suffolk586681666749771
Surrey485489526544627
Sussex1,6071,7251,7331,5991,781
Thames Valley1,3901,6191,7381,9452,087
Warwickshire401472461455510
West Mercia6918831,2351,2651,428
West Midlands2,6953,4283,8694,5785,427
West Yorkshire2,5593,0643,7523,8743,636
Wiltshire447625720644833
Dyfed Powys332355392370321
Gwent501550713734842
North Wales630744909921952
South Wales1,4611,5751,7041,8491,795
England and Wales58,40166,69074,35077,54279,933

1 Principal offence basis.

2 Staffordshire Police were only able to supply a sample of data for magistrates courts proceedings covering one full week in each quarter of 2000. Estimates based on this sample are included in the figures, as they are considered sufficiently robust at this level of analysis.