A table giving the number of antisocial behaviour orders issued annually at all courts, by criminal justice system (CJS) area, as reported to the Home Office by the Court Service, up to 30 September 2005 (latest available), can be found on the Crime Reduction website at www.crimereduction.gov.uk. 41 of the 42 CJS areas are coterminous with police force areas (PFAs). Greater London covers both the Metropolitan and City of London PFAs. The table is further broken down into local government authority areas in which prohibitions are imposed within orders.
The Penalty Notices for Disorder (PND) Scheme was brought into effect in England and Wales in 2004 to provide police with a quick and effective means of dealing with a number of minor disorder offences. Under the scheme, a fixed penalty is issued to the offender who has 21 days to either pay the fine or seek a court hearing. Data on the number of PNDs issued for all offences in 2004, and provisional data for 2005, are provided in the following table. It is not possible to provide the number of PNDs by local authority area as this is not collected centrally.
Number of PNDs issued in: Police force area 2004 20052 Avon and Somerset 508 3,187 Bedfordshire 503 1,209 Cambridgeshire 359 944 Cheshire 972 2,386 Cleveland 559 2,767 Cumbria 578 1,210 Derbyshire 656 1,579 Devon and Cornwall 1,889 5,051 Dorset 516 1,281 Durham 597 1,005 Essex 2,802 3,973 Gloucestershire 473 1,679 Greater Manchester 2,253 7,175 Hampshire 2,116 3,536 Hertfordshire 412 1,156 Humberside 1,596 3,226 Kent 767 4,959 Lancashire 5,077 10,123 Leicestershire 756 1,826 Lincolnshire 544 2,299 London, City of 60 183 Merseyside 3,929 11,668 Metropolitan 12,758 17,732 Norfolk 475 670 North Yorkshire 1,078 1,469 Northamptonshire 570 1,387 Northumbria 211 2,103 Nottinghamshire 1,060 2,058 South Yorkshire 2,098 3,678 Staffordshire 1,450 2,153 Suffolk 472 786 Surrey 203 638 Sussex 1,509 4,161 Thames Valley 1,038 5,353 Warwickshire 481 927 West Mercia 275 1,719 West Midlands 4,773 7,231 West Yorkshire 4,277 9,145 Wiltshire 610 1,045 Dyfed-Powys 459 1,172 Gwent 424 1,496 North Wales 1,255 3,578 South Wales 241 1,702 England and Wales 63,639 142,625 1 Every effort is made to ensure that the figures presented are accurate and complete. However, it is important to note that these data have been extracted from large administrative data systems generated by the police forces. As a consequence, care should be taken to ensure data collection processes and their inevitable limitations are taken into account when those data are used. 2 Provisional data.