§ Mark TamiTo ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department how many convictions for offences relating to shoplifting there have been in each police authority in each of the last five years. [113024]
§ Mr. Bob AinsworthThe information requested is contained in the table.
Statistics for 2002 will be available in the autumn.
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Persons1 convicted of thefts from shops, by police force area— England and Wales Number of persons Police force area 1997 1998 1999 2000 2001 Avon and Somerset 1,341 1,397 1,921 1,911 1,952 Bedfordshire 610 717 798 805 867 Cambridgeshire 502 594 704 872 895 Cheshire 1,232 1,400 1,530 1,622 1,497 Cleveland 1,145 1,420 1,949 2,097 2,082 Cumbria 654 621 670 616 702 Derbyshire 581 607 825 1;029 1,241 Devon and Cornwall 1,315 1,301 1,481 1,464 1,634 Dorset 533 820 855 918 798 Durham 382 491 821 1,005 1,064 Essex 1,637 1,714 1,622 1,578 1,744 Gloucestershire 515 637 643 757 795 Greater Manchester 4,181 4,121 4,309 4,488 4,628 Hampshire 1,898 2,338 2,522 2,353 2,390 Hertfordshire 576 611 779 889 917 Humberside 1,128 1,408 1,719 1,815 1,705 Kent 1,921 2,352 2,281 2,394 2,433 Lancashire 2,635 2,825 2,747 2,954 2,930 Leicestershire 764 954 1,034 1,036 1,172 Lincolnshire 542 692 922 921 982 London, City of 113 127 178 184 220 Merseyside 2,521 2,591 2,712 3,119 3,174 Metropolitan Police 10,437 11,745 11,893 10,887 10,697 Norfolk 713 928 1,027 991 1,088 Northamptonshire 497 687 853 855 869 Northumbria 1,857 2,342 2,772 2,851 3,097 North Yorkshire 724 806 988 1,002 1,010 Nottinghamshire 1,175 1,352 1,694 2,044 2,182 South Yorkshire 1,701 1,961 2,505 2,781 2,833 Staffordshire2 786 921 1,178 1,777 1,325 Suffolk 586 681 666 749 771 Surrey 485 489 526 544 627 Sussex 1,607 1,725 1,733 1,599 1,781 Thames Valley 1,390 1,619 1,738 1,945 2,087 Warwickshire 401 472 461 455 510 West Mercia 691 883 1,235 1,265 1,428 West Midlands 2,695 3,428 3,869 4,578 5,427 West Yorkshire 2,559 3,064 3,752 3,874 3,636 Wiltshire 447 625 720 644 833 Dyfed Powys 332 355 392 370 321 Gwent 501 550 713 734 842 North Wales 630 744 909 921 952 South Wales 1,461 1,575 1,704 1,849 1,795 England and Wales 58,401 66,690 74,350 77,542 79,933 1Principal offence basis.
2Staffordshire Police were only able to supply a sample of data for magistrates courts proceedings covering one full week in each quarter of 2000. Estimates based on this sample are included in the figures, as they are considered sufficiently robust at this level of analysis.