Information showing the number of defendants proceeded against at magistrates courts for riding a pedal cycle on a footpath, England and Wales, broken down by police force area, in 2007 (latest available) is shown in the table.
Data for 2008 will be available in the autumn of 2009.
Force Proceeded against Bedfordshire 2 Cambridgeshire 3 Cleveland 10 Cumbria 9 Dorset 14 Durham 3 Greater Manchester 4 Hampshire 9 Humberside 12 Kent 4 Lancashire 2 Leicestershire 1 Lincolnshire 2 London, City of 3 Merseyside 3 Metropolitan Police 17 Norfolk 2 Northumbria 21 North Yorkshire 6 Nottinghamshire 4 Staffordshire 1 Suffolk 1 Thames Valley 1 West Mercia 3 West Midlands 8 West Yorkshire 1 Wiltshire 3 England and Wales 149 1 The statistics relate to persons for whom these offences were the principal offences for which they were dealt with. When a defendant has been found guilty of two or more offences the principal offence is the offence for which the heaviest penalty is imposed. Where the same disposal is imposed for two or more offences, the offence selected is the offence for which the statutory maximum penalty is the most severe. 2 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. 3 Where a police force area is not listed in the table, nil data is recorded. Source: Evidence and Analysis Unit—Office for Criminal Justice Reform