The available information relates to offences of criminal damage recorded by the police and is given in the following tables.
Police force area Number of offences England 822,029 Suffolk 7,835 Bedfordshire 8,025 Cambridgeshire 9,250 Essex 18,845 Hertfordshire 9,831 Norfolk 9,782
Number of offences Police force area 1998-99 1999-2000 2000-01 2001-02 England 823,520 890,756 906,800 1,007,634 Suffolk 7,898 9,547 10,150 12,095 Bedfordshire 7,893 8,048 7,892 8,191 Cambridgeshire 11,925 12,110 13,197 13,972 Essex 18,834 21,766 24,673 26,990 Hertfordshire 10,177 11,560 13,839 15,302 Norfolk 10,393 10,978 11,481 13,065 1 The coverage was extended and counting rules revised from 1998-99. Figures from that date are not directly comparable with those for 1997. 2 The data in this table is prior to the introduction of the National Crime Recording Standard in April 2002. These figures are not directly comparable with those for later years.
Number of offences Police force area 2002-03 2003-04 2004-05 2005-06 2006-07 2007-08 2008-09 England2 1,043,197 1,139,308 1,120,426 1,107,645 1,106,543 965,932 870,684 Suffolk 11,497 12,817 12,781 13,067 13,084 12,207 11,300 Bedfordshire 10,050 11,065 10,561 10,817 10,717 10,141 8,720 Cambridgeshire 16,153 16,534 16,227 14,680 15,597 14,001 12,980 Essex 30,337 34,253 32,406 30,564 30,010 26,379 23,554 Hertfordshire 17,988 19,887 20,762 20,986 20,713 17,374 14,999 Norfolk 16,030 17,462 17,470 17,577 17,258 14,790 12,647 1 The data in this table takes account of the introduction of the National Crime Recording Standard in April 2002. These figures are not directly comparable with those for earlier years. 2 Excluding British Transport police.