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Offences by police force area, 1990

01 January 1991

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Offences by police force area, 1990
bacdoc July=1992

House of Commons written answer, 3 March 1992, Col 115


Mrs. Currie asked the Home Secretary if he will list in rank
order the number of offences committed per head of population in
the most recent year available for each police authority in
England and Wales.

Mr. John Patten: The available information is given in the table:

Notifiable offences recorded by the police per 100,000
population - England and Wales 1990

Police force area Offences
per 100,000
population

Northumbria 14,236
Cleveland 13,363
Nottinghamshire 13,122
Greater Manchester 13,112
Humberside 12,201
Metropolitan Police District(1) 11,642
West Yorkshire 11,420
South Wales 10,649
West Midlands 10,123
Bedfordshire 10,110
Merseyside 9,614
Durham 9,114
Avon and Somerset 8,987
Northamptonshire 8,353
South Yorkshire 8,286
Leicestershire 8,160
Gloucestershire 8,007
Lancashire 7,795
Thames Valley 7,551
Norfolk 7,298
Dorset 7,294
Hampshire 7,178
Gwent 7,084
Staffordshire 6,979
Warwickshire 6,811
Cambridgeshire 6,803
Cumbria 6,782
Kent 6,780
Sussex 6,700
Lincolnshire 6,677
Essex 6,552
Derbyshire 6,501
North Yorkshire 6,403
Devon and Cornwall 6,167
Wiltshire 6,013
Suffolk 5,888
West Mercia 5,836
North Wales 5,805
Cheshire 5,786
Surrey 5,724
Hertfordshire 5,513
Dyfed-Powys 4,427

TOTAL 8,986

(1)Including City of London.

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