The number of defendants cautioned from 1996 to 2005 in England and Wales, broken down by police force area is shown in the following table. Data for 2006 will be available in the autumn of 2007.
In addition, the Penalty Notice for Disorder (PND) Scheme was introduced to all police forces in England and Wales in 2004. Under the scheme, police can issue ‘on-the-spot fines’ of £50 or £80 for a specified range of minor disorder offences. The number of PNDs issued in 2004 and 2005 by police force area, together with provisional data for 2006, is shown in the following tables.
Formal warnings were also introduced in 2004; the number of offenders issued with a formal warning for 2004-05, 2005-06 and 2006-07 is shown in the following tables. These data are presented by financial year, rather than calendar year.
Police force area 1996 1997 1998 1999 2000 2001 2002 2003 2004 2005 Avon and Somerset 3,910 3,773 4,534 5,197 4,764 4,351 4,286 4,615 5,075 6,107 Bedfordshire 2,664 2,940 2,789 2,833 2,265 3,112 2,628 2,827 3,080 3,455 Cambridgeshire 2,523 2,477 2,621 2,569 2,308 2,207 2,114 2,063 2,618 3,985 Cheshire 4,602 4,048 4,587 3,592 3,111 2,780 2,085 3,051 3,268 4,572 City of London 1,067 1,146 751 709 559 902 1,083 974 605 807 Cleveland 7,757 7,242 5,583 4,321 3,267 3,087 3,020 3,256 3,490 3,617 Cumbria 2,688 2,902 3,015 3,032 2,337 2,505 2,392 2,615 2,753 2,652 Derbyshire 3,303 3,832 3,532 3,301 2,917 3,161 2,732 2,794 3,371 4,644 Devon and Cornwall 8,822 8,042 7,047 7,226 7,283 7,177 7,224 7,870 6,951 7,175 Dorset 1,052 964 1,741 1,787 1,926 1,787 1,709 1,789 3,114 3,115 Durham 1,668 2,014 2,089 2,393 2,349 2,424 2,681 2,628 2,160 3,137 Essex 7,829 6,717 6,064 5,296 4,690 4,640 4,330 4,277 4,799 7,530 Gloucestershire 2,458 2,331 2,897 2,754 2,848 2,828 2,815 2,590 2,696 3,822 Greater Manchester 17,874 16,297 19,716 16,142 12,389 11,181 9,774 11,063 12,778 13,184 Hampshire 8,161 7,592 6,424 7,478 7,014 7,436 6,765 7,587 8,747 9,180 Hertfordshire 2,858 3,057 2,867 2,779 3,182 3,237 3,096 3,378 3,826 4,006 Humberside 4,535 3,968 4,509 3,756 3,533 3,250 2,632 2,874 4,118 5,386 Kent 7,013 7,129 8,570 8,533 7,655 7,339 6,479 8,252 10,013 10,166 Lancashire 8,778 9,333 8,909 7,355 6,777 7,189 6,515 8,205 10,229 10,345 Leicestershire 3,644 3,155 3,409 3,202 2,512 2,149 804 2,564 3,898 5,029 Lincolnshire 3,604 2,566 2,425 1,957 1,440 1,799 2,101 2,063 2,177 3,672 Merseyside 12,807 13,763 14,205 12,159 8,216 6,142 6,331 6,165 6,388 3,785 Metropolitan Police 54,263 53,632 57,969 46,239 36,758 31,337 32,088 31,324 31,833 35,152 Norfolk 5,053 4,460 3,345 2,809 2,773 2,302 2,345 2,314 2,774 3,013 North Yorkshire 2,444 1,852 2,238 2,531 2,461 2,590 2,646 2,722 2,740 2,405 Northamptonshire 3,010 2,352 3,176 3,021 3,431 3,679 3,560 2,716 2,591 3,237 Northumbria 17,795 17,586 14,620 14,505 14,165 14,065 15,694 16,779 16,246 16,628 Nottinghamshire 6,358 5,966 5,808 5,323 5,142 5,118 3,862 4,814 4,868 7,640 South Yorkshire 5,163 4,965 5,306 6,217 3,950 4,304 4,102 4,839 4,891 9,506 Staffordshire 6,014 5,905 4,958 4,105 5,628 5,455 6,124 5,585 4,616 6,496 Suffolk 3,115 3,188 3,345 2,695 3,201 3,459 3,336 3,636 3,484 3,670 Surrey 3,297 2,861 3,514 3,914 3,213 4,097 3,675 4,793 5,435 5,654 Sussex 7,157 6,640 5,762 6,393 6,670 7,666 8,151 8,162 8,709 9,146 Thames Valley 4,377 3,705 3,209 4,626 6,790 5,157 6,149 6,534 8,243 13,337 Warwickshire 2,289 2,160 2,143 2,061 1,785 2,161 2,024 2,277 1,936 2,920 West Mercia 3,973 5,866 5,836 5,297 5,380 6,385 6,357 6,251 6,658 7,747 West Midlands 14,830 15,836 17,093 17,138 15,575 14,517 15,078 15,143 13,751 17,706 West Yorkshire 8,349 8,875 9,676 9,923 9,633 9,071 10,073 11,277 14,959 17,904 Wiltshire 1,932 2,575 2,497 2,678 2,853 2,115 1,695 2,347 1,985 2,046 Dyfed-Powys 2,240 3,109 3,452 3,313 3,185 3,495 3,761 4,491 3,170 3,973 Gwent 4,963 5,329 5,780 5,502 4,529 4,258 3,803 3,666 1,456 2,553 North Wales 3,226 3,074 3,544 3,619 3,124 3,120 3,559 3,299 3,237 2,706 South Wales 6,733 6,869 6,339 5,852 5,399 4,826 3,680 5,337 6,032 6,135 Total 286,198 282,093 287,894 266,132 238,987 229,860 225,358 241,806 255,768 298,945 1 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 those data are used. 2 These data are on the principal offence basis.
Police force area 2004 2005 20062 Total Avon and Somerset 508 3,244 3,876 7,628 Bedfordshire 503 1,239 1,602 3,344 Cambridgeshire 359 1,046 1,346 2,751 Cheshire 972 2,387 2,265 5,624 Cleveland 559 2,806 3,552 6,917 Cumbria 578 1,220 1,677 3,475 Derbyshire 656 1,593 2,537 4,786 Devon and Cornwall 1,889 5,134 6,976 13,999 Dorset 516 1,381 2,262 4,159 Durham 597 1,149 1,583 3,329 Essex 2,802 4,454 4,357 11,613 Gloucestershire 473 1,721 2,654 4,848 Greater Manchester 2,253 7,256 10,532 20,041 Hampshire 2,116 3,658 4,365 10,139 Hertfordshire 412 1,296 5,312 7,020 Humberside 1,596 3,265 5,385 10,246 Kent 767 5,032 6,889 12,688 Lancashire 5,077 10,222 12,401 27,700 Leicestershire 756 1,909 2,376 5,041 Lincolnshire 544 2,373 1,930 4,847 London, City of 60 219 305 584 Merseyside 3,929 11,937 11,269 27,135 Metropolitan 12,758 18,047 20,171 50,976 Norfolk 475 676 1,323 2,474 North Yorkshire 1,078 1,596 2,367 5,041 Northamptonshire 570 1,403 2,498 4,471 Northumbria 211 2,147 6,307 8,665 Nottinghamshire 1,060 2,119 2,205 5,384 South Yorkshire 2,098 3,710 5,989 11,797 Staffordshire 1,450 2,169 3,209 6,828 Suffolk 472 901 1,460 2,833 Surrey 203 641 2,819 3,663 Sussex 1,509 4,193 5,023 10,725 Thames Valley 1,038 5,795 6,676 13,509 Warwickshire 481 933 1,016 2,430 West Mercia 275 1,774 3,433 5,482 West Midlands 4,773 7,320 7,925 20,018 West Yorkshire 4,277 9,217 8,866 22,360 Wiltshire 610 1,080 1,224 2,914 Dyfed Powys 459 1,214 1,353 3,026 Gwent 424 1,511 1,908 3,843 North Wales 1,255 3,792 6,049 11,096 South Wales 241 1,702 5,311 7,254 England and Wales 63,639 146,481 192,583 402,703 1 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 those data are used. 2 Provisional figures.
2004-05 2005-06 2006-07 Avon and Somerset 977 2,578 3,600 Bedfordshire 603 643 324 British Transport Police n/a 203 430 Cambridgeshire 349 492 956 Cheshire 311 393 532 Cleveland 120 392 331 Cumbria 272 219 231 Derbyshire 665 513 497 Devon and Cornwall 1,956 1,532 1,473 Dorset 369 340 348 Durham 252 207 257 Dyfed-Powys 917 799 887 Essex 556 697 722 Gloucestershire 371 395 419 Greater Manchester 1,751 3,235 4,943 Gwent 159 396 646 Hampshire 698 1,113 1,477 Hertfordshire 258 488 1,394 Humberside 32 149 533 Kent 198 497 652 Lancashire 390 237 210 Leicestershire 154 978 1,555 Lincolnshire 79 n/a 543 London, City of 505 682 373 Merseyside 961 8,561 7,204 Metropolitan Police 13,161 21,040 30,554 Norfolk 486 638 731 Northamptonshire 120 111 206 Northumbria 199 155 1,419 North Wales 543 793 971 North Yorkshire 727 654 554 Nottinghamshire 529 855 1,077 South Wales 520 536 1,266 South Yorkshire 560 1,023 1027 Staffordshire 867 1,323 1,282 Suffolk 600 64 573 Surrey 523 482 754 Sussex 866 1,350 1,971 Thames Valley 2,232 1,883 2,431 Warwickshire 340 419 649 West Mercia 571 582 686 West Midlands 2,025 3,451 2,852 West Yorkshire 1,212 1,839 1,539 Wiltshire 274 394 231 England and Wales 39,258 63,331 81,310 n/a = Not available.