The number of violent incidents per 10,000 adults recorded by the BCS in each police force area is published annually in the Home Office statistical bulletin “Crime in England and Wales”, a copy of which is available in the House of Commons Library. Figures for 2007-08 are included in Table 1.
Police force area All BCS violence per 10,000 adults1 Cleveland 301 Durham 568 Northumbria 723 Cheshire 376 Cumbria 324 Greater Manchester 503 Lancashire 606 Merseyside 582 Humberside 563 North Yorkshire 278 South Yorkshire 683 West Yorkshire 730 Derbyshire 294 Leicestershire 376 Lincolnshire 463 Northamptonshire 868 Nottinghamshire 810 Staffordshire 641 Warwickshire 626 West Mercia 499 West Midlands 451 Bedfordshire 481 Cambridgeshire 445 Essex 245 Hertfordshire 433 Norfolk 479 Suffolk 165 Metropolitan Police 542 Hampshire 492 Kent 398 Surrey 585 Sussex 298 Thames Valley 531 Avon and Somerset 452 Devon and Cornwall 333 Dorset 651 Gloucestershire 403 Wiltshire 221 Dyfed-Powys 470 Gwent 885 North Wales 303 1 All BCS violence includes wounding, assault with minor injury, assault with no injury and robbery.
Statistics on the number of persons charged with offences are not collected centrally. The available information relates to persons proceeded against and cautioned and these figures are published by the Ministry of Justice. There were 61,056 persons proceeded against for violence against the person offences in 2007 and 64,763 in 2006. The number who received a caution for violence against the person was 52,334 in 2007 and 57,273 in 2006.