§ Mr. CousinsTo ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department if he will publish a table based on the 1992 reported crime figures showing the total number of crimes reported in each police authority area in 1992, and also showing these figures as a rate per 1,000 population in those areas and as a rate per uniformed officer in those areas.
§ Mr. JackThe information requested is given in the table:
Notifiable offences recorded by the police 1992 (1) England and Wales Police force area Offences per 1,000 population Offences per police officer Avon and Somerset 122 55 Bedfordshire 110 51 Cambridgeshire 98 51 Cheshire 79 39 Cleveland 145 53 Cumbria 87 35 Derbyshire 89 45 Devon and Cornwall 76 38 Dorset 79 38 Durham 104 44 Essex 77 38 Gloucestershire 113 52 Greater Manchester 141 51 Hampshire 89 45 Hertfordshire 69 34 Humberside 147 61 Kent 102 49 Lancashire 83 35 Leicestershire 107 52 Lincolnshire 81 39 Merseyside 100 30 Metropolitan Police District(2) 124 31 Norfolk 89 46 Northamptonshire 101 48 Northumbria 142 56 North Yorkshire 73 37 Nottinghamshire 157 67 South Yorkshire 102 43 Staffordshire 93 44 Suffolk 68 35 Surrey 71 31 Sussex 83 39 Thames Valley 99 50 Warwickshire 92 44 West Mercia 72 37 West Midlands 123 45 West Yorkshire 145 58 Wiltshire 73 32 Dyfed-Powys 56 27 Gwent 89 39 North Wales 73 35 South Wales 125 51 Total 106 42 (1) Excluding criminal damage of value £20 and under.
(2) Including City of London.