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Arrests

Volume 459: debated on Thursday 3 May 2007

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department how many (a) arrests have been made and (b) charges have been brought by the police since 1997; and how many convictions arose from such charges, broken down by (i) category of offence and (ii) police authority. (128261)

[holding answer 19 March 2007]: Information is not collected centrally on how cases progress from arrest to prosecution or otherwise. Data collected by the Office for Criminal Justice Reform (OCJR) on arrests are collected separately from data on prosecutions and their outcome. Data on numbers charged are not collected by either OCJR or the Home Office.

The available data by notifiable offence group are given in tables A1 to A10 for arrests and B1 to B9 for convictions respectively. Arrests data for years prior to 1999-2000 are not available while the data for 2005-06 on both arrests and convictions will be available later this year.

Care should be taken in interpreting the tables not least because the main offence for which a person is arrested may be different from the one which resulted in a conviction. Also people arrested within a given year will not necessarily have been convicted in the same year.

Table A1: Number of persons arrested for recorded crime (notifiable offences) within the offence group “violence against the person” by police force area, 1999-2000 to 2004-05

Number

Police force area

1999-2000

2000-01

2001-02

2002-03

2003-04

2004-05

Avon and Somerset

3,327

4,325

4,304

4,458

5,060

7,056

Bedfordshire

13,390

12,470

12,405

13,540

4,440

5,420

Cambridgeshire

2,311

2,353

2,316

2,239

2,574

3,626

Cheshire

4,138

3,794

3,536

3,676

13,335

5,935

City of London

n/a

n/a

357

451

405

635

Cleveland

2,949

n/a

3,210

2,918

3,809

4,893

Cumbria

2,369

2,208

2,325

2,743

2,951

4,348

Derbyshire

5,277

4,917

5,082

6,580

7,610

9,478

Devon and Cornwall

6,289

6,480

7,315

8,958

9,340

210,860

Dorset

1,935

1,869

2,265

2,122

2,558

3,804

Durham

n/a

n/a

n/a

n/a

3,640

4,127

Essex

5,425

6,597

7,162

7,117

8,274

39,220

Gloucestershire

2,058

1,963

2,093

2,498

2,707

3,663

Greater Manchester

11,782

11,124

10,536

11,215

14,593

19,020

Hampshire

9,002

8,254

7,914

8,422

11,100

13,376

Hertfordshire

3,187

3,250

3,366

3,598

4,583

7,576

Humberside

n/a

4,209

4,295

4,304

4,421

4,998

Kent

6,912

6,128

6,431

7,183

8,549

9,235

Lancashire

8,511

9,153

10,859

10,518

14,284

18,908

Leicestershire

3,044

3,007

3,219

3,173

3,210

4,361

Lincolnshire

n/a

n/a

n/a

n/a

n/a

n/a

Merseyside

9,620

10,417

9,808

11,494

15,139

12,804

Metropolitan Police

35,365

32,395

31,691

34,348

36,850

244,248

Norfolk

4,059

4,141

4,063

3,987

4,328

5,321

North Yorkshire

5,112

4,823

5,038

6,304

7,563

25,144

Northamptonshire

2,813

2,492

2,455

2,744

3,024

3,849

Northumbria

9,045

8,564

9,377

10,447

11,589

214,630

Nottinghamshire

8,532

8,367

8,624

7,766

8,850

9,108

South Yorkshire

6,078

6,525

6,544

7,465

8,580

10,791

Staffordshire

n/a

n/a

n/a

n/a

8,140

9,365

Suffolk

2,279

2,578

2,628

3,026

3,588

4,285

Surrey

2,966

3,826

3,504

4,559

5,504

6,070

Sussex

965

4,749

45,279

5,475

9,337

10,731

Thames Valley

7,824

7,992

7,910

8,814

9,995

15,293

Warwickshire

1,260

1,280

1,640

1,788

2,266

2,485

West Mercia

4,737

4,047

4,802

5,294

6,754

8,114

West Midlands

n/a

n/a

n/a

123,053

24,848

23,962

West Yorkshire

12,193

15,420

12,362

14,971

17,408

20,606

Wiltshire

2,357

2,422

2,482

2,440

2,364

2,229

Dyfed Powys

n/a

2,332

2,672

3,127

3,635

3,512

Gwent

n/a

n/a

n/a

2,905

3,654

4,982

North Wales

2,907

2,738

2,705

3,596

5,578

6,591

South Wales

1,472

7,613

8,773

9,808

10,353

11,653

England and Wales

5255,500

5259,500

5259,400

5284,000

5332,100

5395,800

n/a = not available

1 Revised since initial publication with HOSB.

2 Revised since publication of annual HOSB. DATA as issued in HO S95 publication “Statistics on Race & cjs, 2005”.

3 Excludes divisions on NSPIS Custody (Rayleigh, Southend and partly Basildon).

4 Covers a period of 46 weeks only—six weeks data were lost due to IT problems within the October/December quarter 2001.

5 Estimate.

Note:

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 these data are used.

Table B1: The number of persons found guilty at all courts after being arrested and charged by the police1 for violence against the person offences in England and Wales, by financial year 1997-98 to 2004-052,3,4,5,6

Police force area

1997-98

1998-99

1999-2000

2000-01

2001-02

2002-03

2003-04

2004-05

Avon and Somerset

1,758

3,569

3,932

4,109

3,981

4,202

4,777

5,067

Bedfordshire

744

1,614

1,527

1,504

1,388

1,505

1,820

2,078

Cambridgeshire

540

1,401

1,490

1,596

1,615

1,918

1,796

2,116

Cheshire

1,971

4,172

4,050

4,038

3,429

3,702

3,725

3,424

Cleveland

1,123

2,007

1,898

1,682

1,834

2,043

2,445

2,874

Cumbria

1,359

2,922

2,755

2,283

2,257

2,228

2,453

2,753

Derbyshire

1,802

3,567

3,641

3,488

3,525

3,845

4,377

4,739

Devon and Cornwall

2,185

4,407

4,586

4,673

4,628

5,481

5,587

5,760

Dorset

515

1,283

1,372

1,413

1,314

1,519

1,647

2,267

Durham

1,386

3,115

3,700

3,381

3,447

3,272

3,131

2,449

Essex

2,200

4,554

4,424

4,256

4,343

4,518

4,932

6,131

Gloucestershire

718

1,510

1,762

1,846

1,917

1,945

1,873

1,923

Greater Manchester

5,882

13,185

14,071

14,250

13,374

13,380

14,379

17,259

Hampshire

2,674

6,559

7,449

7,237

7,038

7,450

8,183

9,124

Hertfordshire

909

1,911

2,068

2,034

2,079

2,348

2,710

3,162

Humberside

1,882

4,043

4,070

3,968

3,448

3,937

4,721

4,583

Kent

2,353

5,525

5,351

4,847

4,404

4,363

5,006

5,002

Lancashire

4,126

8,308

7,140

6,707

7,039

7,214

7,358

7,138

Leicestershire

1,892

3,700

3,937

3,867

4,161

5,001

5,029

4,691

Lincolnshire

1,132

2,212

2,255

1,937

2,070

2,376

2,591

2,802

London, City of

100

115

202

163

182

260

252

243

Merseyside

2,592

5,150

4,618

4,980

5,419

5,837

7,486

7,833

Metropolitan Police

11,790

23,838

22,367

21,643

21,985

25,618

26,078

27,670

Norfolk

1,509

3,254

3,064

2,010

2,701

2,682

3,066

2,963

Northamptonshire

897

1,949

2,093

1,792

1,591

1,772

1,906

2,099

Northumbria

3,122

6,959

7,510

6,776

6,584

6,543

7,019

7,124

North Yorkshire

1,711

3,228

3,516

3,274

3,134

3,181

3,568

3,910

Nottinghamshire

2,623

5,105

5,292

5,448

4,765

4,568

4,977

4,813

South Yorkshire

2,320

4,307

4,231

4,505

4,633

4,807

5,295

5,753

Staffordshire

1,718

3,527

3,062

2,532

1,538

2,754

2,659

3,036

Suffolk

849

1,633

1,797

1,707

1,679

1,674

1,677

2,405

Surrey

921

1,657

1,447

1.270

1,345

1,369

1,806

2,445

Sussex

1,685

3,450

3,300

3,486

4,034

4,535

4,593

5,000

Thames Valley

2,165

4,618

4,631

4,678

4,641

4,965

5,228

5,237

Warwickshire

796

1,496

1,105

1,048

1,197

1,251

1,196

1,291

West Mercia

1,771

3,448

3,486

3,252

3,770

3,765

4,344

4,867

West Midlands

5,038

11,254

12,485

13,909

16,120

17,116

16,682

16,979

West Yorkshire

3,382

7,776

8,756

8,076

6,922

7,307

9,087

12,422

Wiltshire

749

1,757

1,828

1,711

1,901

2,009

2,241

2,201

Dyfed Powys

1,180

2,863

3,254

2,809

2,497

2.529

2,661

2,239

Gwent

1,876

3,754

4,072

4,010

3,355

3,354

2,950

3,015

North Wales

1,489

3,118

2,810

2,722

2,661

2,891

3,084

3,467

South Wales

3,504

7,181

7,617

7,355

7,552

8,481

8,673

8,941

England and Wales

90,938

191,001

194,021

188,272

187,497

201,515

215,068

231,295

1 All convictions in the Crown court are included (those arrested and charged by the police cannot be distinguished separately although they will make up the vast majority of people tried in the Crown court).

2 These data are on the principal offence basis.

3 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.

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

5 These data are for those persons proceeded against at magistrates courts that have resulted in a conviction for a recorded crime.

6 Includes all indictable offences within the violence against the person offence group as well as recordable summary violence against the person offence group

Source:

RDS Office for Criminal Justice Reform