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Lord Hardy of Wath
asked Her Majesty's Government:How many criminal offences were recorded in each police force area in England in both 1978 and 1998. [HL3564]
Lord Williams of Mostyn
Figures for the calendar year 1998 are not yet available. The figures for 1978 and the year ending 31 March 1998 are given in the table. They represent notifiable offences recorded by the police, and include most indictable and triable either way offences, together with certain summary offences.
| Notifiable Offences Recorded by the Police by Police Force Area | ||
| All offences | ||
| Police Force | January 1978 to December 1978 | April 1997 to March 1998 |
| Avon and Somerset | 56,018 | 144,556 |
| Bedfordshire | 26,192 | 45,250 |
| Cambridgeshire | 29,507 | 58,864 |
| Cheshire | 28,756 | 60,716 |
| Cleveland | 35,235 | 63,634 |
| Cumbria | 19,761 | 35,777 |
| Derbyshire | 39,451 | 74,436 |
| Devon and Cornwall | 44,600 | 92,800 |
| Dorset | 25,667 | 43,536 |
| Durham | 29,021 | 47,311 |
| Essex | 53,276 | 89,380 |
| Gloucestershire | 17,369 | 46,044 |
| Greater Manchester | 159,477 | 315,000 |
| Hampshire | 68,179 | 121,042 |
| Hertfordshire | 38,598 | 49,426 |
| Humberside | 46,595 | 123,722 |
| Kent | 57,468 | 118,892 |
| Lancashire | 54,387 | 116,947 |
| Leicestershire | 30,874 | 81,183 |
| Lincolnshire | 17,892 | 41,792 |
| City of London | 6,008 | 5,137 |
| Merseyside | 110,381 | 125,312 |
| Metropolitan Police District | 567,387 | 778,279 |
| Norfolk | 23,825 | 52,580 |
| Northamptonshire | 23,236 | 53,645 |
| Northumbria | 98,324 | 134,457 |
| North Yorkshire | 23,236 | 50,297 |
| Nottinghamshire | 71,869 | 125,097 |
| South Yorkshire | 57,111 | 125,907 |
| Staffordshire | 36,129 | 89,820 |
| Suffolk | 19,085 | 35,262 |
| Surrey | 26,364 | 38,015 |
| Sussex | 46,665 | 110,320 |
| Thames Valley | 76,238 | 154,014 |
| Warwickshire | 14,306 | 35,604 |
| West Mercia | 36,271 | 75,330 |
| West Midlands | 161,192 | 277,970 |
| West Yorkshire | 132,983 | 242,646 |
| Wiltshire | 21,890 | 32,831 |
| England total | 2,430,823 | 4,312,831 |