Data on charging are not collected centrally.
Data from the court proceedings database held by the Office for Criminal Justice Reform on the number of people proceeded against at magistrates courts and convicted at all courts for the offence of assaulting a constable in Lancashire, 2001 to 2005, are shown in the following table.
Proceeded against Offence description 2001 2002 2003 2004 2005 Assault on a constable 627 682 733 708 739
Offence description 2001 2002 2003 2004 2005 Assault on a constable 449 494 513 530 547 1 These data are on the principal offence basis. 2 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 courts and 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. Source: RDS Office for Criminal Justice Reform