David Ruffley
Shadow Minister (Home Affairs)
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department how many persistent and prolific offenders have been identified in each police force area in each of the last three years for which figures are available.
Vernon Coaker
Parliamentary Under-Secretary (Home Office) (Crime Reduction)
Data from the performance management arrangements for the Prolific and other Priority Offender programme provides the number of such offenders identified through partnership arrangements in each police force area. The data are provided in the following table. The data cover the three years from January 2005 up to December 2007, and are the most recent data available. These figures rely on the accuracy and completeness of the data provided locally by prolific and priority offender schemes.
| Table 1 | |||
| Police force area | 1 January 2005 to 31 December 2005 | 1 January 2006 to 31 December 2006 | 1 January 2007 to 31 December 2007 |
| Avon and Somerset | 218 | 225 | 228 |
| Bedfordshire | 116 | 118 | 122 |
| Cambridgeshire | 92 | 107 | 135 |
| Cheshire | 180 | 185 | 191 |
| City of London | 4 | 11 | 15 |
| Cleveland | 132 | 145 | 144 |
| Cumbria | 67 | 68 | 69 |
| Derbyshire | 355 | 359 | 357 |
| Devon and Cornwall | 359 | 334 | 334 |
| Dorset | 52 | 75 | 62 |
| Durham | 57 | 58 | 79 |
| Dyfed Powys | 92 | 81 | 84 |
| Essex | 195 | 167 | 194 |
| Gloucestershire | 100 | 104 | 112 |
| Greater Manchester | 737 | 840 | 1,004 |
| Gwent | 77 | 81 | 90 |
| Hampshire | 210 | 258 | 333 |
| Hertfordshire | 228 | 149 | 142 |
| Humberside | 181 | 212 | 234 |
| Kent | 306 | 254 | 278 |
| Lancashire | 413 | 361 | 427 |
| Leicestershire | 338 | 341 | 342 |
| Lincolnshire | 125 | 111 | 195 |
| Merseyside | 412 | 417 | 336 |
| Metropolitan police | 1,090 | 1,139 | 1,185 |
| Norfolk | 118 | 93 | 112 |
| North Wales | 136 | 100 | 120 |
| North Yorkshire | 55 | 89 | 122 |
| Northamptonshire | 183 | 259 | 265 |
| Northumbria | 224 | 219 | 241 |
| Nottinghamshire | 501 | 497 | 634 |
| South Wales | 186 | 195 | 237 |
| South Yorkshire | 240 | 237 | 265 |
| Staffordshire | 157 | 261 | 239 |
| Suffolk | 160 | 170 | 145 |
| Surrey | 138 | 181 | 149 |
| Sussex | 311 | 309 | 350 |
| Thames Valley | 327 | 334 | 330 |
| Warwickshire | 71 | 78 | 107 |
| West Mercia | 154 | 117 | 117 |
| West Midlands | 708 | 758 | 788 |
| West Yorkshire | 283 | 242 | 243 |
| Wiltshire | 80 | 78 | 48 |
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