The information requested is set out in the following table.
Recorded crime Police force area 1997 1998-991 1999-2000 2000-01 2001-022 2002-033 2003-04 2004-05 2005-06 North East Region Cleveland 18 20 26 16 24 18 45 37 41 Durham 17 13 40 18 19 16 15 21 18 Northumbria 78 76 107 99 86 103 169 182 137 North West Region Cheshire 22 32 22 44 50 31 44 61 71 Cumbria 8 11 5 13 9 13 11 26 18 Gtr. Manchester 620 647 875 935 1,361 1,240 1,275 1,268 1,200 Lancashire 71 50 78 59 103 66 58 259 372 Merseyside 127 286 240 278 299 318 483 491 485 Yorkshire and the Humber Humberside 83 76 61 69 63 68 68 174 108 North Yorkshire 28 11 8 9 28 18 23 13 15 South Yorkshire 80 75 114 129 170 153 127 185 301 West Yorkshire 162 193 191 335 332 333 269 318 355 East Midlands Region Derbyshire 69 52 65 72 58 73 75 149 109 Leicestershire 48 98 71 58 74 174 141 123 89 Lincolnshire 5 16 19 24 22 37 26 90 72 Northamptonshire 40 54 48 40 55 107 123 113 128 Nottinghamshire 120 112 173 157 204 264 233 305 277 West Midlands Region Staffordshire 36 23 53 108 116 131 108 144 128 Warwickshire 20 20 14 39 53 62 102 73 76 West Mercia 36 38 36 41 54 48 62 151 115 West Midlands 428 407 664 816 1.289 1,101 1,138 959 946 East of England Region Bedfordshire 43 46 56 48 82 86 89 94 103 Cambridgeshire 34 35 43 31 49 57 34 50 34 Essex 58 47 61 77 98 148 145 193 280 Hertfordshire 45 30 36 36 69 139 138 139 114 Norfolk 20 34 24 20 26 36 33 23 29 Suffolk 5 15 18 22 15 28 45 59 58 London Region 1,960 2,034 2,945 3,036 4,197 4,202 3,891 3,697 3,884 South East Region Hampshire 29 38 52 49 58 97 130 148 85 Kent 100 76 109 108 60 64 65 100 142 Surrey 31 35 42 52 40 34 88 63 87 Sussex 107 115 119 110 155 136 82 67 85 Thames Valley 109 96 107 198 267 362 421 437 401 South West Region Avon and Somerset 55 71 103 100 131 119 123 196 167 Devon and Cornwall 40 75 81 64 52 36 84 174 Dorset 25 11 12 14 34 17 45 49 27 Gloucestershire 23 22 21 23 89 92 108 87 77 Wiltshire 19 19 10 13 26 60 53 49 43 Wales Dyfed Powys 13 16 13 26 26 17 37 40 21 Gwent 19 26 19 11 18 52 74 85 53 North Wales 19 27 10 6 6 18 11 60 88 South Wales 34 31 52 67 56 74 47 104 71 England and Wales 4,904 5,209 6,843 7,470 10,023 10,248 10,338 10,882 11,084 1 There was a change in the counting rules for recorded crime on 1 April 1998. 2 Numbers of some recorded crimes may have been inflated by some police forces implementing the principles of the National Crime Recording Standard before 1 April 2002. 3 The National Crime Recording Standard was introduced on 1 April 2002. Figures for some crime categories may have been inflated by this