Available information taken from the Court Proceedings Database held by the Office for Criminal Justice Reform, from 1995 to 2001 is provided in the following table.
Number of offences Police force area 1995 1996 1997 1998 1999 2000 2001 Avon and Somerset 2,432 2,512 2,812 2,566 2,728 2,462 2,197 Bedfordshire 1,001 1,093 1,146 1,060 869 797 914 Cambridgeshire 946 951 1,092 1,060 941 793 813 Cheshire 1,818 2,034 1,969 1,903 1,827 1,652 1,529 Cleveland 973 902 926 870 811 777 887 Cumbria 848 927 931 856 871 806 761 Derbyshire 1,462 1,595 1,612 1,547 1,463 1,417 1,411 Devon and Cornwall 2,170 2,144 2,342 2,265 2,277 2,199 2,369 Dorset 1,081 1,190 1,214 1,186 1,120 1,115 1,150 Durham 963 1,036 1,044 1,035 1,137 1,124 1,097 Essex 2,436 2,555 2,736 2,438 2,528 2,462 2,456 Gloucestershire 1,069 979 1,067 985 889 804 865 Greater Manchester 5,554 5,085 4,806 4,715 4,850 4,801 4,715 Hampshire 3,256 3,556 3,774 3,597 3,725 3,472 3,464 Hertfordshire 1,513 1,421 1,670 1,672 1,679 1,552 1,666 Humberside 1,247 1,353 1,274 1,358 1,323 1,371 1,259 Kent 2,395 2,576 2,321 2,627 2,633 2,592 2,575 Lancashire 2,828 3,211 3,389 2,945 3,010 2,584 2,304 Leicestershire 1,291 1,478 1,648 1,485 1,624 1,531 1,546 Lincolnshire 839 839 1,088 979 941 816 877 London, City of 358 464 436 301 236 162 162 Merseyside 2,616 2,746 2,719 2,451 2,137 2,128 2,195 Metropolitan Police 15,445 15,012 16,165 13,889 12,414 11,801 11,260 Norfolk 912 1,013 1,116 1,118 1,010 935 1,143 Northamptonshire2 879 927 1,107 1,062 1,058 782 399 Northumbria 2,206 2,414 2,625 2,457 2,463 2,621 2,529 North Yorkshire 1,247 1,311 1,365 1,205 1,124 1,073 1,066 Nottinghamshire 1,762 1,931 2,031 1,804 1,802 1,722 1,598 South Yorkshire 2,008 2,129 2,296 2,002 1,927 2,122 2,020 Staffordshire3 1,809 1,854 2,036 1,955 1,711 4— 1,513 Suffolk 985 1,066 1,050 1,042 1,089 902 920 Surrey 1,355 1,376 1,380 1,328 1,417 1,539 1,592 Sussex 2,098 2,200 2,373 2,113 2,224 2,112 2,358 Thames Valley 3,651 3,942 4,070 3,896 3,725 3,496 3,275 Warwickshire 854 907 837 784 856 786 880 West Mercia 1,943 1,930 1,947 1,794 1,747 1,631 1,740 West Midlands 5,655 5,880 6,351 5,582 4,775 4,559 4,914 West Yorkshire 3,902 4,102 3,953 3,669 3,597 3,375 3,220 Wiltshire 1,034 1,011 1,043 1,108 1,009 930 1,045 England 86,841 89,652 93,761 86,709 83,567 79,671 78,684 Dyfed Powys 932 993 1,029 995 944 858 867 Gwent 739 966 1,166 1,203 1,079 1,211 1,152 North Wales 1,366 1,363 1,354 1,306 1,248 1,332 1,227 South Wales 2,627 2,731 2,892 2,903 2,526 2,757 2,812 Wales 5,664 6,053 6,441 6,407 5,797 6,158 6,058 England and Wales 92,505 95,705 100,202 93,116 89,364 85,829 84,742 1 Offences under the Road Traffic Act ss. 4 (1) & (2); 5 (1) and (b); 6 (4) and 7 (6). 2 In 2000 problems encountered with the electronic submission of data directly from the courts resulted in shortfalls in summary motoring offences for Northamptonshire from June onwards. This shortfall continued in 2001. 3 Staffordshire police force were only able to submit sample data for persons proceeded against and convicted in the magistrates courts for the year 2000. Although sufficient to estimate higher orders of data, these data are not robust enough at detailed level and have been excluded from the table. 4 Not available. 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 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.