[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.
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.
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